Figure out recovery mode for each database
It is anoying that someone created a new database and left its recovery mode in simple and it caused your backup jobs to fail.
2015-11-23 (first published: 2015-10-26)
706 reads
Scripts
Temporary exclusive database access
This simple script disconnects any other session that is connected to the specified database by temporarily switching the database to single user.
2015-11-20 (first published: 2015-10-25)
969 reads
Disk Space Alerts Based on Threshold Value
This script will drop a mail for sql drives if space on drives is below set threshold value. Log drives with 15 and data files drives with value of 10% as threshold value of free space.
2015-11-19 (first published: 2015-10-27)
2,735 reads
2015-11-18 (first published: 2015-10-29)
1,096 reads
List Expressions and Values of Variables in SSIS package
Variables can be direct text or Expressions. It's handy to be able to get both at one pass. This little script does that.
2015-11-17 (first published: 2015-10-18)
2,208 reads
2015-11-13 (first published: 2015-10-19)
2,032 reads
Data Compression
This script is used to compress tables and indexes. It is designed for page compression on all. Just a little ditty to help with our EDW storage and processing.
2015-11-11 (first published: 2015-10-09)
1,352 reads
First day and last day of a week
This scripts calculates the first day and the last day of a given week
2015-11-10 (first published: 2015-10-12)
1,197 reads
Get FirstDate and LastDate of Every month from two Dates
Get FirstDate and LastDate of Every month from two Dates.
Like IF we have @date1='05/02/2015' and @date2= '11/25/2015' then we will get list of first date and last date from month 5 to 11.
SELECT ID,FirstDate,LastDate,Month,Year FROM [GetFLDatelist](@date1,@date2)
2015-11-09 (first published: 2015-10-09)
1,296 reads
Who are connecting to database and disconnect ...
When you want gain exclusive access to database in order to restore database
2015-11-06 (first published: 2015-10-14)
1,973 reads
Blogs
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
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Slow - Linked server query
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Too Many Choices
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers