Copy Latest Backups from Backup Path
This script is useful to copying latest backup files from job Backup path during Instance/Database Migration
2015-01-21 (first published: 2014-12-15)
986 reads
Scripts
Calculate Time - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for time.
2015-01-19 (first published: 2014-12-15)
1,031 reads
Function for String Occurences Count
This function is used to get the particular string occurences count from the given input string.
2015-01-16 (first published: 2014-12-16)
1,134 reads
Find Deny permissions on database objects
This script allows the DBA to quickly determine if a deny statement is stopping a user from accessing db objects.
2015-01-14 (first published: 2014-12-17)
7,060 reads
Verify Login SID and Machine SID
This script is to verify which login accounts have SID values that don’t match the correct SID values defined on the machine or in the domain.
2015-01-12 (first published: 2014-12-24)
1,646 reads
Calculate Temperature - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for temperature.
2015-01-09 (first published: 2014-12-11)
1,027 reads
Find no of records in each table in database (against Clustered Index)
If you want to find TotalPages, Usedpages,datapages,totalspaceMB,UsedSpaceMB,DataSpaceMB then can use this query.
2015-01-08 (first published: 2014-12-26)
1,519 reads
Calculate Angle - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for angle.
2015-01-06 (first published: 2014-12-10)
659 reads
Calculate Area - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for area.
2015-01-02 (first published: 2014-12-10)
697 reads
Calculate Mass/Weight - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for mass.
2015-01-01 (first published: 2014-12-10)
557 reads
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers