Excel LET Formula for creating small values tables from a table or range
The Excel (365) "LET" formula below will return a formatted SQL Values Table "T1" that can be pasted into SSMS.
2022-04-06 (first published: 2022-03-29)
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The Excel (365) "LET" formula below will return a formatted SQL Values Table "T1" that can be pasted into SSMS.
2022-04-06 (first published: 2022-03-29)
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A stored procedure to search database objects (triggers, scalar functions, table valued functions, views and stored procedures) for a user defined string.
2022-04-04 (first published: 2022-03-28)
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This script will create the necessary login and linked servers on a given availability replica. Please ensure that the script is executed on all the replicas.
2022-02-22 (first published: 2022-01-25)
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Script database and object level permissions for all database users
2022-01-12 (first published: 2021-06-11)
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I have developed the script to check SQL Server instances startup type, sometimes we didn't know all our SQL instances startup type correctly configurated, especially we cannot distinguish the Automatic and Automatic(Delayed Start) from the direct query, the only way is querying from the registry, you can use this script in your environment to bulk […]
2021-12-24
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Got a message from the Operation team as below Hi Harsha, I'm seeing a larger than normal rate of change for a week day on the backups for the SQL2000 servers. Did anything run differently yesterday compared to Monday? I have 22 sql servers and all the Weekend and Monthly backups goes to the location […]
2021-12-03
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This script allows you to compare patch levels across instances.
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-21)
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We cannot import multiple packages on the SSIS server. So, loading 100 packageS from file location will be a tedious task for a DBA. We can solve this issue by making use of the DTUTIL utility. The DTUTIL utility can also import one package at a time, but we can write the batch file using the […]
2021-09-27 (first published: 2021-09-22)
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Here is an Excel formula that generates a SQL script from an Excel table
2021-07-30 (first published: 2021-07-26)
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The script returns all the fragmented indexes on all databases on the instance you run it. Can be run on multiple instances in the same time using central management capability.
2021-07-12 (first published: 2021-07-06)
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I want to enable two trace flags, 4199 and 4137, for a single query. How should I do this:
-- A SELECT a.AddressID , a.AddressLine1 , a.AddressLine2 , a.City , a.StateProvinceID , a.PostalCode , p.FirstName , p.LastName FROM Person.Address a INNER JOIN person.Person AS p ON p.rowguid = a.rowguid WHERE City = 'SEATTLE' AND PostalCode = 98104 OPTION (QUERYTRACEON 4199, 4137); -- B SELECT a.AddressID , a.AddressLine1 , a.AddressLine2 , a.City , a.StateProvinceID , a.PostalCode , p.FirstName , p.LastName FROM Person.Address a INNER JOIN person.Person AS p ON p.rowguid = a.rowguid WHERE City = 'SEATTLE' AND PostalCode = 98104 OPTION (QUERYTRACEON 4199, QUERYTRACEON 4137); -- C SELECT a.AddressID , a.AddressLine1 , a.AddressLine2 , a.City , a.StateProvinceID , a.PostalCode , p.FirstName , p.LastName FROM Person.Address a INNER JOIN person.Person AS p ON p.rowguid = a.rowguid WHERE City = 'SEATTLE' AND PostalCode = 98104 OPTION (QUERYTRACEON 4199), (QUERYTRACEON 4137);See possible answers