2012-12-07 (first published: 2012-11-19)
1,390 reads
Scripts
Get Scheduled Jobs from Multiple Servers
Script to loop thru multiple linked server and get agent scheduled jobs for the next XX hours.
2012-12-06 (first published: 2012-11-16)
920 reads
2012-12-03 (first published: 2012-11-07)
2,029 reads
2012-11-30 (first published: 2012-11-03)
1,100 reads
Print Text Month Calendar
This function return the text format of a month calendar. It could be useful for sending through emails when you do do not have other tools, but T-SQL to send text emails.
2012-11-29 (first published: 2012-10-31)
1,957 reads
Scripting CREATE INDEX Statements Automatically From Your Tables
Stored proc for scripting out full CREATE INDEX statements from your table indexes with all filegroup, filter and WITH parameters.
2012-11-27 (first published: 2012-10-18)
2,533 reads
Intelligent Index Reorganize and Rebuild Script - v1.0
This script will provide a dynamic mechanism to decide between REBUILDING an index or simply REORGANIZING an index. Tested and approved for SQL Server 2005 & 2008 Standard or Enterprise or R2.
2012-11-26 (first published: 2012-10-18)
3,920 reads
Script for no of Index in a table
This script will tell you how many indexes there are for a single table and also it specifically shows how many non clustered index, and also which tables have a heap index.
2012-11-23 (first published: 2012-10-17)
1,319 reads
Top 10 Wait State Issues Reporter
This script will produce the top 10 wait state issues along with their descriptions.
2012-11-22 (first published: 2012-10-22)
1,771 reads
2012-11-21 (first published: 2012-10-02)
1,590 reads
Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers