Analyze This – Your Indexes Analysis – Part 1

Shrinks have no idea what’s wrong with you when you walk in the door.  In you come you try to describe what appears to be the problem and then they start asking about your mother.  But you don’t want to talk about your mother, most likely you’d like some relief to whatever the concern is … Continue reading Analyze This – Your Indexes Analysis – Part 1

I Don’t Want To Use the Object Browser (sp_helptext)

Have you ever needed the definition of a view, stored procedure, or user defined function?  I sure hope you have - otherwise reading any more of this posting will be more than pointless. For those of you still with me, have you ever also not wanted to find that definition without have to browse through … Continue reading I Don’t Want To Use the Object Browser (sp_helptext)

Last Time SQL Server Restarted

Not a really hard thing to figure out, but for some crazy reason I always forget.  So, hopefully actually writing it out for the world to see will help me remember. Since tempdb is created every time that SQL Server restarts, the created date for that database can be used to determine the last time … Continue reading Last Time SQL Server Restarted