2015-07-31 (first published: 2015-07-12)
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Scripts
List Job Dependencies
A Stored Procedure that lists all Jobs that target a database and the job dependencies
2015-07-29 (first published: 2015-07-02)
2,321 reads
Function to convert UserAccountControl number to details text
Function that converts AD UserAccountControl number to details text
2015-07-27 (first published: 2013-05-14)
2,819 reads
DB Integrity & Backup Report
This script returns the date for the most recent log/full backups and checks if a DBCC CHECKDB has ran within a week.
2015-07-23 (first published: 2015-06-23)
1,340 reads
Setup Alerts for SQL Replication
If you want to monitor few specific alerts for SQL Replication (Merge and Transnational), you can may consider adding these 14 alerts.
2015-07-21 (first published: 2015-06-16)
1,508 reads
Monitor SQL Server and Service
To monitor SQL service and the host server is up and running, if down send e-mail to DBA
2015-07-16 (first published: 2015-06-15)
2,137 reads
Recent Restore History
This script simply returns the most recent restore information about databases for a server.
Returns the destination database name, the device used to perform the restore and the restore date.
2015-07-15 (first published: 2015-06-10)
767 reads
List schemas in a database
This is an expansion of the sys.schemas table.
User schemas are sorted to the top, schema type is decoded, schema authorization is included.
2015-07-14 (first published: 2015-06-10)
1,872 reads
2015-07-10 (first published: 2015-06-11)
1,014 reads
Delete Backup Files From Default Backup Location
IF you have need to schedule job to cleanup backup files older than N days, you can use my written script.
2015-07-02 (first published: 2015-06-04)
709 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
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I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers