Determine if BACKUP COMPRESSION is available
This script will determine the SQL Server version and edition in order to find out if BACKUP COMPRESSION is available.
2014-04-02 (first published: 2013-09-10)
912 reads
Scripts
Get the all user and their server role
The script give you the list of all users and their respective Server roles
2014-04-02 (first published: 2014-03-11)
1,566 reads
2014-03-31 (first published: 2014-03-03)
1,241 reads
DBCC,Backup, Verify and create Agent Job to restore
Script to Automatically Backup, Drop and create Agent Job to restore from that backup.
2014-03-25 (first published: 2014-03-03)
1,065 reads
Using Seqence Container instead of Identity
This script is an example of how to use Sequence, similar to Identity.
2014-03-24 (first published: 2014-02-25)
1,352 reads
Script to Check the Database Backup duration
Script to Check the Database Backup duration of entire instances
2014-03-19 (first published: 2014-02-25)
2,128 reads
Script to Get the Database Restore history
Script to get the Database restore history details including with the files by which the database is restored.
2014-03-17 (first published: 2014-02-25)
1,302 reads
Script to Get the Backup History
Script to get the database backup history on SQL Server 2000/2005/2008
2014-03-14 (first published: 2014-02-25)
1,533 reads
2014-03-13 (first published: 2014-02-25)
1,103 reads
Calendar Table by Year
Populate a calendar table with user set interval start and end datetime values.
2014-03-11 (first published: 2014-02-21)
2,072 reads
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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