Jeffrey Yao

Jeffrey Yao is a senior SQL Server consultant with 15 years of database administration, his current interests are on database administration automation and visualization. He enjoys reading the concise and smart sql tips and loves R&D work in DBA Engineering topics. His blog is at: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/jeffrey_yao/.

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Category	Tip Title
Backup	Exploring SQL Server Table Backup Methods
Comparison Data and Objects	Finding SQL Server Table and Data Differences using PowerShell
Comparison Data and Objects	SQL Server Database Schema Synchronization via SQLPackage.exe and PowerShell
Constraints	Script to Delete Data from SQL Server Tables with Foreign Key Constraints
Database Administration	Automate SQL Server Administration Tasks Using the Windows Command Prompt
Database Administration	Automatically Build a SQL Server Script Database Library from Your Script Files
Database Administration	Build an Automated SQL Server Database Inventory System
Database Administration	Copy a SQL Server database with just the objects and no data
Database Administration	Create a Self-Service Framework for SQL Server DBA Tasks
Database Administration	Generate INSERT scripts from SQL Server queries and stored procedure output
Database Administration	Introduction to C# Scripting for SQL Server DBAs
Database Administration	Learn SQL Server from Microsoft’s Own Code
Database Administration	MSSQL-Scripter Tool and Examples to Generate Scripts for SQL Server Objects
Database Administration	SQL Server HotFix History Analysis
Database Design	CRUD Operations in SQL Server
Database Mail	Beautify HTML Tables in Emails for SQL Database Mail
Database Mail	Generate HTML Formatted Emails from SQL Server
Dates	SQL Server Date Time Calculation Examples
Dates	SQL Server FORMAT Function for Dates, Numbers and SQL Server Agent Dates
Error Logs	Cycle SQL Server Error Logs based on size using PowerShell
High Availability	Find SQL Server Downtime Window After Reboot
Import and Export	Adding more functionality to SQL Server BCP with PowerShell
Import and Export	Copy data to another SQL Server instance without a Linked Server
Import and Export	Dynamically Generate SQL Server BCP Format Files
Import and Export	Excel File Data Validation for SQL Server Imports
Import and Export	Transfer data from SQL Server to MySQL
Indexing	Build a Robust Incremental SQL Server Update Statistics Procedure
Integration Services Administration	Automated Inventory Collection of Scheduled SQL Server Integration Services Packages
Locking and Blocking	Detect and Automatically Kill Low Priority Blocking Sessions in SQL Server
Monitoring	Quickly Evaluate SQL Server Best Practices with Invoke-SqlAssessment
Monitoring	SP_WhoIsActive Data Collection and Analysis
Performance Tuning	Automatically Generate Performance Counter Graphs with SQL Server 2016 and R
PowerShell	Bulk Copy Data from Oracle to SQL Server
PowerShell	Complete Common SQL Server Database Administration Tasks In Parallel with PowerShell V3 WorkFlow
PowerShell	Get Total Line Counts for all SQL Server Source Objects Using PowerShell
PowerShell	How to find a specific text string in a SQL Server Stored Procedure, Function, View or Trigger
PowerShell	One Line PowerShell Solutions To Common SQL Server DBA Tasks
PowerShell	PowerShell Script to Delete All Data in a SQL Server Database
PowerShell	PowerShell to automate multiple database SQL Server restores to refresh environments
Professional Development Career	The 6 Rules to be a Happy SQL Server DBA
Professional Development Career	Things I know now that I wish I knew when I started as a SQL Server DBA
Professional Development Interview Questions DBA	PowerShell Interview Questions for SQL Server DBAs
Professional Development Interview Questions DBA	Senior SQL Server DBA non-technical interview questions
Professional Development Interview Questions Developer	T-SQL Interview Questions for Senior Developers
Professional Development Interviewing	Technical Interview Questions for a Senior SQL Server DBA
Professional Development Skills Development	How to Build an Efficient Request Process for SQL Server DBAs
Professional Development Skills Development	How to Grow Your SQL Server DBA Career
Replication	Auto Fix SQL Server Transactional Replication Error 20598 for DELETEs
Replication	Auto Fix SQL Server Transactional Replication Error 20598 for UPDATEs
Replication	Monitoring SQL Server Transactional Replication Latency via PowerShell and RMO
Security	Backdoor to Elevate SQL Server Security Privileges
Security	Cloning a SQL Server Login with all permissions using PowerShell
Security	Different Ways to Find SQL Server Orphaned Users
Security	Encrypt and Decrypt Passwords in SQL Server with PowerShell
Security	Script to drop SQL Server login and all owned objects using PowerShell
Security	SQL Server Functions to Mask Confidential Data using CLR or PowerShell
SQL Server 2016	Easily Import CSV Files with R in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016	SQL Server 2016 Regular Expressions with the R Language
SQL Server 2016	Visual SQL Server Performance Data Comparison with R
SQL Server 2017	Create Size Based Backups for SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2019	Discovering New System Objects and Functions in SQL Server 2019
SQL Server 2022	Find Updated Columns in Update Transaction with New BitWise Operators in SQL Server 2022
SQL Server Agent	Add Last Step to SQL Agent Jobs for Failure Notification
SQL Server Agent	How to Pass Data Between SQL Server Agent Job Steps
SQL Server Agent	Make SQL Server Agent Alert Notifications Smarter and More Flexible
SQL Server Agent	SQL Server Agent Job Advanced Management
SQL Server Agent	SQL Server Job Change Auditing
SQL Server Configurations	Inventory SQL Server Services Version and Edition
SQL Server Management Studio	Using Regular Expressions to Manipulate Text in SQL Server Management Studio 2017
SQL Server Management Studio Configuration	Automate Registering and Maintaining Servers in SSMS
Testing	Generate Random Strings with High Performance with a SQL CLR function
Triggers	How to Identify which SQL Server Columns Changed in a Update
TSQL	Advanced Use of the SQL Server ORDER BY Clause
TSQL	Delete Files with SQL Server 2016 R Logic in T-SQL Code
TSQL	Implement a Comment Based Help Framework via CLR Stored Procedure
TSQL	Sort Alphanumeric Values in SQL Server
Upgrades and Migrations	Creating a SQL Server Build and Patch Release Table
Upgrades and Migrations	Extract Hot Fix Details from a SQL Server CU KB Articles
Upgrades and Migrations	Identify System Object Differences Between SQL Server Versions

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