How to Find Where Your Databases Reside In The File System
SQL Script:
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RETURNS LIST OF FOLDER NAMES WHERE SQL SERVER DATABASE
FILES ARE STORED.
It is dynamic...
2024-12-27 (first published: 2024-01-31)
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Database Property LastGoodCheckDbTime to Get the Last Successful DBCC CHECKDB on a Database
As one of the preventive database maintenance tasks, performing database integrity checks on almost every database you...
2024-07-01 (first published: 2024-06-13)
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Search and Export Script for SQL Server Databases
Plainly speaking, this article is about searching for a specific value inside all tables and their columns of a SQL database and...
2024-04-24 (first published: 2024-04-09)
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Finding the Latest Backup Timestamps for Your Databases
I wanted to find out the most recent date and time each database was last backed up, focusing specifically on full, differential,...
2024-04-08 (first published: 2024-03-29)
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Understanding and Using xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs in SQL Server
What is xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs?
xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs is an undocumented, extended stored procedure in Microsoft SQL Server. It is used to provide information about the jobs that are...
2024-02-12 (first published: 2024-01-31)
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SQL Server's Buffer Cache: How to Calculate Dirty Page Sizes
As we know, the SQL Server buffer cache is an area or region inside the server's memory where SQL Server...
2024-02-05 (first published: 2024-01-24)
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Best Practice Tip #1: Beware of Best Practices
It may sound contractionary that the first item of a best practices list is to be wary of...
2024-02-02 (first published: 2024-01-18)
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A Primer on Attaching Databases with PowerShell Method AttachDatabase
Attaching a SQL Server database using PowerShell can be straightforward. Here's an effective and easy approach using the...
2024-01-31 (first published: 2024-01-16)
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SQL Server Error 8623
At least once day, an application for one of the databases I manage gets this error:The query processor ran out of internal...
2024-01-29 (first published: 2024-01-13)
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2023-12-04 (first published: 2023-11-20)
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By Steve Jones
As we close out the year, I decided to drop this post here and...
By Steve Jones
lilo– n. a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right...
I spend my days working on and managing SQL Server instances—working days at least,...
Hello, I currently have an instance of SQL Server 2019 Developer installed on my...
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