Building a SQL Restore Script When Your Backup Runs
It is handy to have a SQL Restore script ready to go for every backup that you run. Here is a script that will help with that.
It is handy to have a SQL Restore script ready to go for every backup that you run. Here is a script that will help with that.
SQL Server 2017 introduces a new column in the sys.dm_db_file_space_usage system table. The column is modified_extent_page_count, which tells how many pages have been modified in your data file since the last full backup. What is really interesting about this is that with …
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From time to time I get asked about checkDB, and there are many solutions out there, but I have one that I generally use that is very simple and does the job. The script below created a stored procedure in …
One way to improve performance on SQL Server is with IFI or Instant File Initialization. Normally files are zeroed out on a database growth during an AUTOGROW, RESTORE, CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE. This is done by SQL Server when …
Updating SQL Server statistics may not be as obvious as it may sound. Imagine this scenario. I invite you over for dinner and a game of Scrabble. After dinner, I start to do the dishes, while you set up the …
The following are the steps that I went through to create a more difficult Database Corruption Challenge for Week 4. Here is how I built the database, nothing fancy, however I did add an extra FILEGROUP called [UserObjects]. Notice, that …
Here is a quick video training on how to use the T-SQL EOMONTH function on SQL Server. This was originally part of my free SQL query training for the 70-461 certification exam. The EOMONTH function returns the last day of a given …
Here is a short video tutorial that shows how to use the CHOOSE function in T-SQL on SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014 or Newer. This was originally part of my free SQL query training for the 70-461 certification exam. Here …
Using the GO commend in TSQL to run a batch of code multiple times is something that I commonly do in demo’s and training’s. What amazes me is how many people after the training will tell me that they didn’t know …
In my Common Table Expressions presentation the topic of recursion often comes up, but for scalar functions in T-SQL, it might not be as common. This article has been written to show how a scalar function in SQL Server can …