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)
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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)
668 reads
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)
946 reads
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)
2,711 reads
2015-11-18 (first published: 2015-10-29)
1,025 reads
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)
2,157 reads
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)
1,325 reads
This scripts calculates the first day and the last day of a given week
2015-11-10 (first published: 2015-10-12)
1,161 reads
2015-11-10 (first published: 2007-04-05)
461 reads
2015-11-10 (first published: 2011-08-13)
1,977 reads
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)
1,279 reads
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
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