Find storage including mount points sql/powershell
Find all storage including mount points and show' free and used available. Needs powershell.
2014-08-25 (first published: 2011-12-15)
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Scripts
Script to Restore Entire database from a directory
Script to restore the entire databases from the backup directory just by passing the backup directory.
2014-08-22 (first published: 2014-02-25)
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Powershell script to read Windows 2012 R2 Failover cluster log for Sql
I was having a hard time to reading the Windows 2012 R2 Failover cluster log from my live server. That is why I just wrote a simple PowerShell script to get the job done for me.
2014-08-21 (first published: 2014-07-29)
1,752 reads
Change password for user 'sa'
Last week one of my team members was supposed to create a SQL Authenticated ID on a SQL Server 2005 instance. This was as per the request of the Application team who would be using it for an Application.
2014-08-20 (first published: 2014-08-13)
1,913 reads
2014-08-18 (first published: 2014-07-28)
1,259 reads
2014-08-15 (first published: 2014-07-16)
1,554 reads
Generate Restore script for multiple databases
Restore script for moving databases from prod to dev with different path / logical name etc.
2014-08-14 (first published: 2014-05-30)
5,920 reads
Simple script to list out SPID, Program_name and login details
If you have any requirement where you want to find out all the SPIDs running on a database along with the program/application name of the SPID and the login details. You can run the procedure to get the details very easily.
2014-08-12 (first published: 2014-06-30)
4,118 reads
2014-08-11 (first published: 2014-05-28)
1,795 reads
Script to generate the SQL to create a fulltext catalog and its underlying fulltext index
This script was published originally on http://humakhurshid.blog.com/2011/07/14/script_out_fulltext_catalog/
The author has tweaked it little bit to improve it.
2014-08-07 (first published: 2014-07-02)
5,811 reads
Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
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Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
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The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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