2014-08-18 (first published: 2014-07-28)
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Scripts
2014-08-15 (first published: 2014-07-16)
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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)
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2014-08-11 (first published: 2014-05-28)
1,786 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)
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Move End of Month file from source to destination
The script below executes on the first of every month and moves files from source to destination location.
2014-07-24 (first published: 2014-06-16)
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2014-07-23 (first published: 2014-06-17)
1,766 reads
2014-07-22 (first published: 2014-05-16)
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Object dependencies in xml format
Most of the people know about the right-click option 'View Dependencies' in the SQL Management Studio.
It will diplay expandable tree off all dependencies each way. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I couldn't find any other way to save this othere than taking a screenshot of the window.
2014-07-21 (first published: 2014-05-19)
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Caching and paging a SQL Result Set
This is an example of how to Cache Query results on the Server side
then page though the results
2014-06-06 (first published: 2014-05-05)
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Blogs
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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