Detach & Attach Procedure
For successful run, Your SQL Server service account should have permission to old location & new location
2015-05-27 (first published: 2015-05-10)
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Scripts
2015-05-26 (first published: 2015-05-08)
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2015-05-20 (first published: 2015-05-05)
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Taking Backup Of All DBs
Wrote the script to take compressed backup with combining many other features.
2015-05-18 (first published: 2015-04-29)
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2015-05-13 (first published: 2013-03-14)
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Find the position of all occurrences of an expression within a string
This iTVF returns both the relative and the actual positions of ALL occurrences of a string within a string.
2015-05-12 (first published: 2013-03-24)
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Passively detect attempts to guess passwords
Review the error log for possible brute force or dictionary attacks on your SQL Server instance.
2015-05-08 (first published: 2013-05-22)
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Check SQL Error Logs using Powershell
Dynamically check your SQL Error Logs and filter using Powershell.
2015-05-07 (first published: 2013-06-04)
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Capture current queries when cpu is above certain threshold
If you get alerts for high CPU, but by the time you login/check the server cpu is back to normal, then use this sp to create a sql agent job and run it every min.
2015-05-06 (first published: 2013-06-04)
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2015-05-06
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BIT_COUNT() V
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