2013-12-02 (first published: 2013-11-18)
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Create Mirror Alerts for All Mirrored Databases
Creates Mirror State-Change Alerts for ALL mirrored databases on a server - can save hours when setting up multiple mirrored instances
2013-11-29 (first published: 2010-11-23)
4,183 reads
2013-11-25 (first published: 2013-11-15)
2,202 reads
Split and concatenate function
Function for splitting the values in string, applying logic and concatenating back to string.
2013-11-21 (first published: 2013-11-11)
3,111 reads
Powershell script to interactively move cluster resources
Powershell code to interactively move cluster resources between nodes. Intended for Windows 2012 and SQL 2012.
2013-11-19 (first published: 2013-11-04)
2,397 reads
Search Table And Field In All Database And Return Field Value
In this script, we can search a Field and Table in all databases on the server, returning the Field value.
2013-11-15
165 reads
Generate row constructors for existing data
Takes a given table and generates a UNION ALL'd set of rows from the table. Useful for copying small amounts of data without the need for SSIS or import/export wizard
2013-11-14 (first published: 2013-10-31)
1,202 reads
SQL Data File Information
This script displays all data files within a SQL Server database with the following relevant properties: FileName, FileLocation, FileSizeMB, SpaceUsedMB, AvailableSpaceMB, %FreeSpace, FileGrowthMB and FileGroupName
2013-11-11 (first published: 2013-10-29)
1,546 reads
Right or Wrong, Dynamic SQL AND a Cursor
I'm no big fan of dynamic SQL or cursors, however there are times where they do the job.
2013-11-08 (first published: 2013-10-29)
1,845 reads
Convert int to Excel column name
This script converts a numeric column index to an Excel column name (ex: AC)
2013-11-07 (first published: 2013-10-23)
2,070 reads
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