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Check when log backups were last restored

17th November 2014 By John McCormack Leave a Comment

This script is useful if want to check when transaction log backups were last restored to a specific database.

With minor amendments, you can also check other restore types and check for all databases, not just a specific one.

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Filed Under: front-page, T-SQL Tagged With: check when log backups were last restored, log restore, log restores, log shipping, t-logs, t-sql, transaction logs

Send T-SQL query results in a HTML table

7th August 2014 By John McCormack Leave a Comment

Send T-SQL query results in a HTML table

If you need to email out t-sql query results in a HTML table, whether on an ad-hoc basis or regularly via a job, it can be useful to present the results in a HTML formatted table. This makes the output much easier to read for the recipients, especially if they are not used to using management studio and seeing unformatted data. [Read more…]

Filed Under: T-SQL Tagged With: database mail, email db query, email out database query, email t-sql query result, send html email from sql server, SQL server, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012, t-sql

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