My pick of the Storage Top 10 Best Practices from MS TechNet: know your IO, keep designs simple, put logs on RAID 1+0, isolate logs from data and plan TEMPDB.
SQL SERVER – Query to Find First and Last Day of Current Month – Date Function
One query to find the First and Last Day of Current Month in SQL Server, plus the last day of the previous month and the first day of the next.
SQL SERVER – UDF – Function to Parse AlphaNumeric Characters from String
UDF_ParseAlphaChars keeps only the alphanumeric characters in a string and strips everything else using PATINDEX and STUFF. A handy function, with a test.
SQL SERVER – 2005 – List all the database
Several ways to list all the database names on a server, from sp_databases and sp_helpdb to sys.databases and sp_msForEachDB. I use sp_databases myself.
SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : Msg 6263, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Enabling SQL Server 2005 for CLR Support
Error:
Fix : Error : Msg 6263, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Enabling SQL Server 2005 for CLR Support
1) Enable Server for CLR Support.
SQL SERVER – Explanation SQL Command GO
GO is not a T-SQL command. It tells SQL Server tools to send the current batch. Why a GO statement must sit on its own line, and how it ends a batch.
SQL SERVER – Fix : Error 2501 : Cannot find a table or object with the name . Check the system catalog.
Error 2501, cannot find a table or object with the name, is a common beginner error. Check the database with USE, the spelling and case, and the owner name.