List database restore COMPLETION datetime
This script shows the COMPLETION datetime of database restore.
2015-03-06 (first published: 2013-09-04)
1,263 reads
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Restore Database with any number of Ndf files
Execute the code after passing database name on which you want to restore and the path where your backup file being located.
e.g exec sp_restoredb N'mydatabase',N'D:\mydatabase.bak'
2015-03-05 (first published: 2013-09-22)
1,903 reads
Find Top 5 executed queries ordered by execution count
I wrote this query that helps us find executed queries with most number of execution counts. The DMV that we have used in this script is sys.dm_exec_query_stats and the function that we have used is sys.dm_exec_sql_text.
2015-03-04 (first published: 2013-09-23)
5,187 reads
Script Login Differences
Compare the logins and users on two instances and generate a TSQL script to make them the same.
2015-02-26 (first published: 2013-11-15)
2,867 reads
Determine when a Stored Procedure was created and last altered
Determine when a Stored Procedure was created and last altered.
2015-02-25 (first published: 2013-12-26)
3,487 reads
Dynamically create drop user statistics scripts
Generate script to drop any unwanted user created statistics.
2015-02-24 (first published: 2013-12-26)
1,533 reads
Total space used per table
I have received some comments on getting total space of table and all indexes. Therefore I rewrote previous query and it returns total space used, space used by heap table or clustered index and space used by non-clustered indexes.
2015-02-23 (first published: 2014-01-18)
3,169 reads
Calculate Velocity - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for velocity/speed.
2015-02-20 (first published: 2014-12-11)
571 reads
2015-02-19 (first published: 2014-02-03)
1,926 reads
Template - Type 6 SCD Stored Procedure
Template to create a Type 6 slowly changing dimension stored procedure
2015-02-17 (first published: 2014-02-21)
2,925 reads
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