2016-04-01 (first published: 2016-03-23)
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Scripts
Accurate Time between Two Dates in Year, Month,Day Format
This script shows the total time between two dates.
2016-03-29 (first published: 2014-07-09)
3,078 reads
Find missing index in the whole instance
This script scans all DB-s in the instance & send result to the email. I use sp_MSforechdb function & missing index finding script what i found here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj128029.aspx
2016-03-28 (first published: 2016-03-23)
1,066 reads
2016-03-25 (first published: 2015-01-30)
2,696 reads
AD HOC Queries with Excel Output (Multiple Instances)
From a plain text containing multiple instance names you can deploy EXCEL files to report just changing your query text
2016-03-24 (first published: 2016-03-08)
1,213 reads
Parse list of names from Outlook
This script will parse a list of names copied from the To box of an Outlook email.
2016-03-23 (first published: 2015-07-20)
1,836 reads
Resolving merge replication conflicts type 5 & 6
Merge replication conflicts 'upload insert failed' and 'download insert failed' cannot be resolved using Conflict Viewer alone. Here's a script that will semi-automate the process for most conflicts
2016-03-21 (first published: 2016-03-03)
1,099 reads
Post-Deployment - Scan for RefreshView/Recompile
A script I can run after deployment to refresh views and force a recompile due to modified DDL.
2016-03-18 (first published: 2016-03-03)
592 reads
Transaction Log VLF Alarm
This was used to alert on VLF counts to high due to replication log reader having issue reading the transaction log.
2016-03-17 (first published: 2016-03-02)
904 reads
End to End Server Disk Space reporting within SQL Server
This procedure using OLE object calls to obtain server disk space values and writes them to a table. It then creates an HTML report based on the contents of the table and then , via a SQL Agent job, sends out colour coded emails relating to how much drive space is left... this is very handy!!!!
2016-03-16 (first published: 2016-02-25)
1,124 reads
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Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers