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)
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Scripts
Rebuild index selectively
Rebuild index is expensive most time. So you don't rebuild all index blindly.
2015-11-04 (first published: 2015-10-05)
1,844 reads
Alter all/specific columns by double dynamic SQL
The script uses dynamic SQL twice
first to get the detail about the database structure and create ddl out of it
second to execute each DDL created
2015-11-03 (first published: 2015-10-07)
971 reads
Paginating a SQL query result set
How to Paginate a query result set to keep from pulling the whole result set to the client side
2015-11-02 (first published: 2014-05-05)
3,717 reads
Security Queries: Database-level
A set of queries which attempt to gather as much security-related information on a single database as possible.
2015-10-30 (first published: 2013-10-24)
5,688 reads
List of Stored Procedures modified in past 7 days
Provide list of Stored Procedures that have been changed in past 7 days.
2015-10-29 (first published: 2013-04-11)
3,587 reads
2015-10-27 (first published: 2014-07-08)
4,382 reads
2015-10-23 (first published: 2014-05-13)
3,735 reads
Calculating Working Hours
Calculating working hours can be painful due to all the variances that they imply. This function will calculate working hours between 2 dates which might include time. There's an option to use a holidays table that will vary in each environment.
2015-10-22 (first published: 2014-05-22)
3,742 reads
2015-10-21 (first published: 2013-12-26)
4,058 reads
Blogs
Understanding Fabric Ontology
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What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
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When growing companies outgrow Excel
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There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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