2016-03-25 (first published: 2015-01-30)
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AD HOC Queries with Excel Output (Multiple Instances)
From a plain text containing multiple instance names you can deploy EXCEL files to report just changing your query text
2016-03-24 (first published: 2016-03-08)
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2015-10-19 (first published: 2013-08-30)
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How much space could you get shrinking all databases
This is script is useful when you are short of space on a drive and you need to know how much space can you get shrinking your databases
2014-02-28 (first published: 2012-11-08)
2,764 reads
Total Space Used for all databases per disk
Tells you how much the databases are using the space on disk taking in account the free space at the end of the database.
2014-01-08 (first published: 2012-05-04)
3,974 reads
Display Databases with X days without backup
Displays the information of the date of the latest backup that was done back to @daysago. When value is -0 it gives you all the backup information. The script also gives information on databases that never have been backed up.
2013-09-20 (first published: 2013-08-30)
1,585 reads
Next grow for all databases per disk
This script lets you to know how much disk space will be left after the next database grow taking in account the free space left in the database.
2012-05-08 (first published: 2011-09-13)
1,014 reads
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String Similarity I
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