Got a message from the Operation team as below Hi Harsha, I'm seeing a larger than normal rate of change for a week day on the backups for the SQL2000 servers. Did anything run differently yesterday compared to Monday? I have 22 sql servers and all the Weekend and Monthly backups goes to the location […]
2021-12-03
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This script allows you to compare patch levels across instances.
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-21)
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We cannot import multiple packages on the SSIS server. So, loading 100 packageS from file location will be a tedious task for a DBA. We can solve this issue by making use of the DTUTIL utility. The DTUTIL utility can also import one package at a time, but we can write the batch file using the […]
2021-09-27 (first published: 2021-09-22)
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Here is an Excel formula that generates a SQL script from an Excel table
2021-07-30 (first published: 2021-07-26)
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The script returns all the fragmented indexes on all databases on the instance you run it. Can be run on multiple instances in the same time using central management capability.
2021-07-12 (first published: 2021-07-06)
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This script is useful for your environment having multiple always-on with replication setup and your listener value is persisted with RegisterallIP set to 1. When initiating the always-on failover, It will create/update the alias in the distributor server by pointing to the new primary server without RDP to each distributor server and that makes the […]
2021-07-07 (first published: 2021-06-28)
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Script database and object level permissions for all database users
2021-06-21 (first published: 2021-06-11)
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This article discusses different methods that you can use to shrink the tempdb database in Microsoft SQL Server. Before you shrink the tempdb database using the methods described in this article, note the following: The tempdb size is reset to the final configured size (i.e. to the default size or the final size that was […]
2021-06-09
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Found this useful for database migrations. This helps to identify how much space will need to be allocated for a new server and how a SQL Sever instance is using discs currently. Note. This won't show correct information on Linux instances and if you use mounting points in Windows.
2021-04-23 (first published: 2021-04-19)
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An alternative for Microsoft's STRING_SPLIT function that will work on SQL Server 2012 and higher.
2021-03-11 (first published: 2021-03-05)
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