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)
1,297 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
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Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers