A varchar(MAX) STRING_SPLIT function for SQL 2012 and above
An alternative for Microsoft's STRING_SPLIT function that will work on SQL Server 2012 and higher.
2021-03-11 (first published: 2021-03-05)
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Jonathan Roberts
A varchar(MAX) STRING_SPLIT function for SQL 2012 and above
An alternative for Microsoft's STRING_SPLIT function that will work on SQL Server 2012 and higher.
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-02-28)
17,920 reads
A DateRange Table Valued function
The function is an inline table-valued function (or sometimes called a parameterised view) so it can be used just like a view or a table but needs parameters. It generates a single-column table of datetime2 with rows differing by any multiple of any of the dateparts that SQL Server provides.
2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-20)
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Disable or rebuild all nonclustered indexes on a table
Can be useful when inserting a lot of data into a table.
2019-02-26 (first published: 2019-02-14)
3,609 reads
2018-11-30 (first published: 2017-04-01)
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Table Valued Function to factorize numbers up to 100 trillion
This table valued function will quickly find the prime factors of any number up to 10 trillion
2017-04-26 (first published: 2017-04-06)
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Truncate a table that has foreign keys referencing its columns
This stored procedure will truncate a table even when other tables have FKs referencing columns in it. It drops the Fks, truncates the table, re-creates the FKs
2017-04-19 (first published: 2017-03-28)
700 reads
Table Valued Function to return a range of prime numbers
A fast table valued function to generate a list of prime numbers within the range specified by the parameters.
2017-04-12 (first published: 2017-03-30)
378 reads
Get file sizes of database files and free space on disk
Reports on the data and log file sizes and space used within files for each database on a servers. It also includes the free space on the drive where the file is located.
2016-03-10 (first published: 2015-07-23)
4,429 reads
Function to count set bits in a signed integer
This function counts the number of 1's in the binary representation of an integer.
2015-07-28 (first published: 2014-02-24)
758 reads
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