2015-10-01 (first published: 2015-09-13)
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2015-09-30 (first published: 2015-09-17)
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Get Server version Info
Yet another Script To get Sql server version Info. Run From Central Management server to get all your environment servers
2015-09-29 (first published: 2015-09-10)
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2015-09-28 (first published: 2015-09-10)
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Show solving arithmetic expression step by step
A script to show how to solve arithmetic expressions step-by-step, for my 9-year old daughter.
2015-09-25 (first published: 2015-09-09)
1,199 reads
Document the output of all the SPs in HTML fashion
A script to document the output columns of all the SPs in a given database, with a HTML formatted document
2015-09-24 (first published: 2015-09-08)
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Open transactions on a database
This script will show you all open transactions from any query windows.
2015-09-23 (first published: 2013-01-14)
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2015-09-22 (first published: 2012-10-01)
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SQL Server CPU Usage History Histogram
Returns a summary of CPU usage by SQL Server over the last 4 hours (default).
Using the sample values collected in the dm_os_ring_buffers dmv, this query will show CPU usage by the SQL Server process for the last for hours even if you have no other benchmarking activities in place on your server yet.
2015-09-18 (first published: 2014-05-14)
5,602 reads
SQL Job Timeline (Graphical)
This script generates a graphical timeline of all SQL jobs with a variable zoom level
2015-09-17 (first published: 2013-01-14)
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Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers