Mirror Partner Agent Job To Auto Kick Back to Primary
Query the mirror instance via agent job to auto kick back to primary. If db is in suspended state will resume mirroring.
2016-01-05 (first published: 2015-12-23)
460 reads
Scripts
Fix Orphan Users for Instance Migration
Use provided script to fix orphan users for all databases after Instance Migration. Tested on SQL 2014.
2016-01-04 (first published: 2015-12-17)
1,593 reads
Failed and Successful Login Auditing Using xp_readerrorlog
Script uses undocumented extended stored procedure xp_readerrorlog to find failed logins (grouped) and last successful login
2015-12-30 (first published: 2015-12-15)
1,971 reads
2015-12-29 (first published: 2015-12-09)
1,985 reads
Add empty first step for every job
This script adds empty first step for every job for easier job history viewing.
2015-12-28 (first published: 2015-12-10)
1,865 reads
2015-12-25 (first published: 2015-12-17)
1,702 reads
2015-12-23 (first published: 2015-10-19)
2,015 reads
Know read and write ratio before you tune database performance
A script to get the user table query ratio and update radio,etc
2015-12-21 (first published: 2015-12-11)
1,780 reads
2015-12-18 (first published: 2015-12-09)
4,545 reads
SQL server Service, Account, Trace Flag info
This script outputs sql server service, start type, status, Service Account, installation location, start up time, uptime of sql server related services along with startup trace flags.
2015-12-17 (first published: 2015-12-09)
1,136 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