2019-07-09 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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Scripts
Find Estimate Time of recovery for database after Reboot
This Script will read the Estimated Time for recovery from Error Log
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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Generate views to correct the column collation on a target DB's tables automatically
You find you are querying a vendor supported database where you're not allowed to make any collation changes, and which has a weird collation setup: default DB collation that matches your server and other databases all character related columns are explicitly a different collation that does not match your DB or server collation Rather than […]
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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Audit Users logging in using "sa" or service accounts
Security is probably one of a production DBA's most important tasks and if developers use application or service accounts to run queries in your production environment you need to identify then and prohibit it. I notice some unwanted activity after staring a new job and decided to create a script that notifies me via email when […]
2019-07-04 (first published: 2019-06-26)
2,261 reads
Generate MERGE statements with Table data
A stored procedure that produces a MERGE statement for a given table containing a VALUES clause for all rows, useful for migrating static data between environments.
2019-06-03 (first published: 2012-03-14)
7,918 reads
Alter database owner to SA from any user details on all user databases
Alter database owner to SA from any other user details against all user databases
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-01-13)
1,866 reads
Backup Database Size calculation Report - Monthwise
The script helps to calculate the size of the backup of the databases monthwise. This will help to understand the database growth rate from the backup file if we do not have any data collection utility to find the exact details of the DATA File growth.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2012-08-20)
1,620 reads
Backup Growth Trend Check
-- Backup Growth Trend Check To Understand how much disk space you need in future
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-06-02)
1,287 reads
Capture the tasks performed in a text file
Creates a record of all or part of a Windows PowerShell session in a text file.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-09-17)
1,132 reads
Change datetime
If you have any requirement to extract next 100 sequential date from a present date, you can use the below script. You can change the @datetimeformat value and the output will appear in the same format.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-09-26)
516 reads
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The Burrito Bot: AI-Powered Search in SQL Server 2025
A while back I posted about a couple of side projects that I’ve been...
SQL Server Journey (Part 1)- Enterprise Database 2016
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Continued thinking about my Journey blog where we have to look back at the...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
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A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
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Identities and Sequences II
In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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