2025-12-29 (first published: 2025-12-25)
508 reads
Scripts
Database security permissions save script
This script will save your database permissions into a table.
2025-12-29
381 reads
Powershell script to generate SQL server Inventory in CSV format
This script is used to generate the output file as CSV format for list of server.
2025-11-03 (first published: 2025-10-20)
887 reads
AlwaysON health check alerts
The script gets the database health check whether synchronized or not from the primary or secondary. This code needs to scheduled through as a job to get alerts.
2025-10-20 (first published: 2025-10-13)
690 reads
Bat and SQL script to generate DB user permissions for all Databases in SQL server
Get a list of all user permissions in a database
2025-10-15 (first published: 2025-10-13)
2,166 reads
Database File Growth Report Script
A T-SQL script to track and monitor the growth of your SQL Server Databases.
2025-09-12 (first published: 2025-09-04)
979 reads
Index Efficiency & Maintenance Advisor
This script will help DBAs to find inefficient indexes and duplicate indexes, by providing the following metrics: usage statistics, fragmentation levels, size, and index duplication analysis.
2025-09-10 (first published: 2025-06-27)
861 reads
Enables Change Data Capture (CDC) on all user databases
This script loops through all user databases, skips system DBs and any you want to exclude, and enables CDC if it’s not already enabled.
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-25)
774 reads
Free T-SQL Script: Database Schema Documentation Generator for Generative AI Services Integration
This script automatically generates comprehensive schema documentation that can be easily consumed by AI services for natural language querying, automated report generation, and intelligent data analysis.
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-25)
1,326 reads
Fetch fields like email address from multiple records into single cell
COALESCE smartly helps to concatenating the multiple rows value into one cell.
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-25)
1,634 reads
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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