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Find Overlapping Jobs

Script lists all overlapping jobs that ran on selected server within last @Hoursback hours.Basically, idea behind this is to find jobs that are running at the same time, because that might significantly slow down server, especially if you have jobs that are running during business hours. You can do the same by looking into Jobs […]

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sp_dir - Procedure to list database objects

Lists objects from database. Similar to 'dir' command from DOS 🙂Typical usage sp_dir 't' 'order*', 1     - returns list of all tables whose name start with 'order' plus their columns and data typessp_dir 'p' 'custom*_sp' -  returns list of all stored procedures whose name start with 'custom' and end up with '_sp'For list of […]

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Using CHOOSE()

We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.

CREATE TABLE Status
(
    StatusID INT,
    StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
    StatusID,
    StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');

GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned?

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