Eli Leiba

Eli Leiba is a senior application DBA at Israel Electric Company, a teacher at Microsoft CTEC, and a senior database consultant. With 19 years of experience working with both SQL Server and Oracle RDBMS. He is certified in Oracle and SQL Server database administration and implementation and has a B.S. in Computer Science. He can be reached at: [email protected].

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Category	Tip Title
Backup	Delete old SQL Server backup files with a Stored Procedure
Backup	Script to delete old SQL Server Backup Files Using MSDB Backup History Data
Backup	SQL Server Script to Automatically Split Database Backups into Multiple Backup Files
Backup	SQL Server Script to Determine Free Space Prior to SQL Server Backup
Backup	Validate a SQL Server Backup can be Restored
Compression	SQL Server Data Compression Storage Savings for all Tables
Compression	SQL Server Stored Procedure to Calculate Database Backup Compression Ratio
Compression	SQL Server Stored Procedure to Compress Non Partitioned Tables
Constraints	Find Violating SQL Server Foreign Key Values
Database Administration	Find SQL Server data and log files that are almost out of space
Database Administration	Find the Last Windows Server Reboot Time and Last SQL Server Restart
Database Administration	Script to Drop and Delete Offline SQL Server Databases and Data Files
Database Administration	Script to Find SQL Server Windows Login Expiration Date
Database Administration	Shrink SQL Server Transaction Log for all Databases
Database Configurations	Saving storage space alternative for rarely used decimal columns for SQL Server Tables
Database Console Commands DBCCs	Script to quickly find SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB Errors
Dynamic Management Views and Functions	Creating IO performance snapshots to find SQL Server performance problems
Encryption	SQL Server Credit Card Encryption and Decryption
Encryption	SQL Server Function to Encrypt Integer Values
Error Logs	SQL Server Script to Search Through All Error Logs
Functions User Defined UDF	Create a SQL Server InitCap Function
Functions User Defined UDF	SQL Server function to check dynamic SQL syntax
Identities	SQL Server Current Identity Value Report for All Tables
Import and Export	Simple Image Import and Export Using T-SQL for SQL Server
Indexing	Script to Disable Non Used SQL Server Indexes
Indexing	Script to identify all non-indexed foreign keys in a SQL Server database
Locking and Blocking	Altering lock escalation for SQL Server tables
Monitoring	Function to quickly find the worst performing SQL Server Stored Procedures
Monitoring	Simple free drive space alert for SQL Server databases
Monitoring	SQL Server Function to Measure CPU Usage Per Database
Monitoring	SQL Server Memory Usage Query
Monitoring	SQL Server Table Size Report
Performance Tuning	Disk Latency for SQL Server Database and Transaction Log Files
Performance Tuning	SQL Server Internal Query Cardinality Estimator Information
PowerShell	Find current running SQL Server queries with a PowerShell script
Profiler and Trace	Use SQL Server Default Trace to Find Errors
Restore	Simple Procedure to Make a Copy of a SQL Server Database
Scripts	Script to attach multiple SQL Server MDF files
Scripts	Script to find oldest open SQL Server transaction
Scripts	Stored procedure to generate HTML tables for SQL Server query output
Scripts	Use T-SQL to Find Folders Using the Most Disk Space
Security	Find All Failed SQL Server Logins
Security	Simple SQL Server Function to Generate Random 8 Character Password
Security	SQL Server Database Users to Roles Mapping Report
Security	SQL Server security report to show sysadmins and database owners
Spatial Data Storage	SQL Server Stored Procedure to Calculate Area of a Polygon and Draw its Shape
SQL Server Configurations	Quickly identify non-default sp_configure values for a SQL Server instance
SQL Server Configurations	SQL Server Instance Configuration Summary Report
Testing	SQL Server Stored Procedure to get every Nth row of a Query Result Set
TSQL	Check Windows Services Status with T-SQL
TSQL	Dynamically build a multi OR with LIKE query for SQL Server
TSQL	How to Extract URLs from HTML using Stored Procedure in SQL Server
TSQL	How to Find Top N Largest Time Gaps in Date Ranges in SQL Server with T-SQL Code
TSQL	Matrix Multiplication Calculated with T-SQL
TSQL	Script to calculate the Median value for SQL Server data
TSQL	Scripts to Build a Network of Connected Records Using SQL Server
TSQL	Solve Linear Equations with SQL Server T-SQL Code
TSQL	SQL Server Dynamic PIVOT Query
TSQL	SQL Server Function to Generate Random Numbers
TSQL	Using T-SQL to find the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) for any number of integers
TSQL	Using T-SQL to find the shortest distance between two points

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