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The real work of Microsoft SQL Server

Forget the menus and the buttons. This is what people actually get done in Microsoft SQL Server at work — the real tasks, sorted by the kind of work they are, each with a prompt you can use tonight.

124evidenced tasks
1kinds of work
116with all four prompts

What kind of work is it?

tap a kind to filter the tasks

Which one is you, right now?

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Where are you standing with your work today?
Whichever you pick, the four prompts below cover it.

The work, task by task

124 tasks
otherAdd unique constraint ignoring existing violations4 prompts → otherAdminister multiple SQL Servers4 prompts → otherAnalyze system performance4 prompts → otherApply SQL Server best practices for performance4 prompts → otherArchive SQL Server backups4 prompts → otherArchive documents stored in SQL Server4 prompts → otherAutomate .sql scripts3 prompts → otherAutomate SQL Server administration tasks4 prompts → otherAutomate SQL Server database backups4 prompts → otherAutomate SQL queries to run daily4 prompts → otherAutomate database tasks for Azure SQL4 prompts → otherAutomate management tasks in Azure SQL4 prompts → otherBack up SQL database to local drive4 prompts → otherBack up a database using a SQL query4 prompts → otherBack up and restore database to new server4 prompts → otherCheck if a user exists in a database4 prompts → otherCheck status of running SQL Server jobs4 prompts → otherClear caches for performance comparison4 prompts →

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Microsoft SQL Server's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.