Simple script to backup all databases at once

Script to backup all non system databases To backup all your MS SQL databases quickly on a SQL instance use the following script in a new query window. You must change the “SET @path” string to a suitable location.

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Setting SQL Server to accept date in DD/MM/YYYY format

I’ve been working on a web based database project for the wifes business and during development I realised that half of the dates where being saved in M-D-Y format. As I live in the UK we use the correct date format which is D-M-Y obviously ;). The problem turned out to be a single settings […]

Posted on December 3, 2012 at 23:22 by simon · Permalink · One Comment
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Cannot shrink transaction log SQL 2005

If you ever come across a MS SQL 2005 transaction log that refuses to shrink, this little bit of code might help you out.

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SQL Cheat Sheet

ThisSQL Cheat Sheet has examples of various SQL commands that work on most major flavours of SQL.  Though they all work on T-SQL.

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T-SQL Example code: Data Types

The various datatypes:

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