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t-SQL to replace a part of a value
Did you know you could easily change a part of a string in a value ? Lets say , on day 1 your document database had links to server ‘\\server01\documents’ and, the storage guys decided you should now...
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Check users
this nifty little query will show you who’s logged on and is using a lot of CPU for example, or has High IO activity etc. … You probably know sp_who and sp_who2 , this is just a variation on those...
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Analysis services: Check Connections
You can execute the following query to list current connections to your olap cubes SQL 2008 SELECT * FROM $System.DISCOVER_CONNECTIONS
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t-sql Time queries
–get past hour records WHERE date > DATEADD(HOUR, -1, GETDATE()) –Get past day records where ([date] > DATEADD(dd,-1,GETDATE()))
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JOBS queries and susch
get the owner of the SQL jobs In this example, only if the job is enabled! select s.name,l.name from msdb..sysjobs s left join master.sys.syslogins l on s.owner_sid = l.sid where enabled = 1
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IMDB powershell Function
I have no clue who wrote this but it does work ! i do advise you to only search every 30 sec’or so.. Otherwise you’l get (503) Server Unavailable Function IMDBSearch ($MovieTitle) { $MovieTitle =...
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sys.dm_exec_requests => check your requests progress!
Some nice DMV’s exists to check what is running. It used to be somewhat hard to retrieve this kind of info from SQL server. those days are over ! This script gives you the progress of any restore...
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Search for a string in your tables
Need to find a value in your database but have no clue in which table it resides? http://stackoverflow.com/users/880904/timlehner Wrote this one, without any proc and such, nice ad hoc no nonsense...
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Article 1
The first post in the windows 2012 series! woot woot! I needed to setup a 2012 machine based on another machine and started to poke around with powershell . I listed all the installed features using...
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Table and index size Per Table.
To get the table/index size per table from a sql servere database you can use this script. It uses a cursor to get info per table. thanks to devio !...
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Filestream and powershell
I was looking for a way to store and retrieve FILES (pdf, xls, docx, jpg, png etc. …) in and from a SQL database using the FileStream option. Since bits are documented on the web but i did not find any...
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Check if service broker is enabled (t-sql)
How to see if the service broker for a database is enabled? Run this query an check if the value is 1 or 0 . 1 means enabled! –Get Service Broker Status select name, is_broker_enabled from sys.databases;
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Check Backup completion using the DMV sys.dm_exec_requests
Ever wondered how far your backup or restore operation realy is ? Select * from sys.dm_exec_requests where command like ‘%database%’ Check the colum percent_complete
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Get Database Sizes
With this nifty little bugger you’ll get the database sizes listed. #datasize #size With fs as ( select database_id, type, size * 8.0 / 1024 size from sys.master_files ) select name, (select sum(size)...
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Time difference between 2 columns
Use this to calculate time diff in seconds between two values. This is used to check how long our index maintenance takes in detail ! <code> select L.id, L.DatabaseName, L.Objectname,...
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HiFiBERRY DAC on Raspbmc => 3.10.33+ firmware
I’m not at all a Linux wonder. I do have some background on redhat and debian but still google is my best friend for stuff like this. Since the audio output on raspberry pi rev b is sooooo bad i bought...
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SQL Server 2012 SP2 and Master Data Services => MDS error 500
After installing SP2 on our highly secured master data services Acceptance environment MDS did not work anymore. We got an error 500. After some research it seemed that the rights on the web.config...
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IIS / SQL / Kerberos (ssrs/ mds)
About SPN’s for SQL iis driven pages (ssrs/ mds). sooo… it seems that if you host multiple webpage drivven SQL technologies (http/ ) on the same machine the initial handshake for kerberos tends to...
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DB RECOVERY PENDING
If your db is in recovery pending, it is unable to recover (pending.. get it) . This means that there is a condition that prevents the sql engine to do the recovery because of issue X. Often this is...
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Group by Multiple Columns
My colleague asked me how to select and group by 2 criteria where one of them is a date, the RANGE was 1 day. I came up with this one.. select CONVERT(char(10), timestamp,126), process, count(RecordID)...
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