I generally spend part of each day looking through http://www.stackoverflow.com, http://dba.stackexchange.com or http://www.sqlservercentral.com. I read through questions that have already...  Read more...

Reports index stats, index size+rows, member seek + include columns as two comma separated output columns, and index usage stats for one or more tables and/or schemas.  Read more...

Learn how yo can use a SQL-CLR procedure to handle all your PIVOT queries.  Read more...

Pivoting is a common reporting requirement - data is stored in columns and you need to present it in rows. This was a nice feature that was added to SQL Server, but you don't always know all of the values you need to pivot on. This tip looks at how you can dynamically create the pivot command to handle these unknown values.  Read more...

Building a Stock Price Correlation Matrix Using TVPs, a CROSS JOIN and the PIVOT Function  Read more...

how can use pivot for reporting  Read more...

Create crosstab queries as easily as MS Access with a lot more power.  Read more...

In Part 1, we learned how to make both Cross-Tabs and Pivots. In Part 2, we'll learn how to automate a very common type of Cross-Tab report and maybe learn some extra tricks on the way.  Read more...

Split string like ('123,43,5465,6788,1231,111', ',') into table, separator (,) can be more than 1 char  Read more...

We asked Phil Factor to write a nice simple quick-start guide about aggregation, pivoting and un-pivoting techniques. To do so, he takes us all the way from getting the data from a published source, transferring it to SQL Server, un-pivoting it, storing it in a relational table, aggregating it and finally pivoting the data in a variety of ways.  Read more...

Script to convert to N Columns the rows in a table with PIVOT Operator  Read more...

Create crosstab queries as easily as MS Access with a lot more power.  Read more...

I needed to display my data in columns but could not use pivots or cross tables because it wasn't a fix amount of columns. so I created this script, I hope is useful.  Read more...

Reports index length stats for indexes who's lengths exceeding parametrized thresholds (defaults to 0 - get all) for total length and seek length, optionally filtering schemas and tables.  Read more...

In Part 1, we learned how to make both Cross-Tabs and Pivots. In Part 2, we'll learn how to automate a very common type of Cross-Tab report and maybe learn some extra tricks on the way.  Read more...

Gets single-column and cumulative-column selectivity stats and @Top largest dupe sets for each cumulative column stepping for a set of one or more columns for a table.  Read more...

Searches database-wide for multiple indexes in the same table which has the same column as the first seek key. Optionally limits to LIKE wildcard patterns of table and schema names.  Read more...

Reports index stats, index size+rows, member seek + include columns as two comma separated output columns, and index usage stats for one or more tables and/or schemas.  Read more...

This script was designed to 'pivot' data that couldnt easily be pivoted in any other way. i used temporary tables to eventually achieve the result i was looking for :)  Read more...

Lists details for all indexes on one or more tables / schemas, including row count and size. This version outputs the member seek + include columns as two comma separated output columns.  Read more...