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)
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Jonathan Roberts
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)
5,490 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)
978 reads
Function to display integer as binary string
This function converts an integer to its binary representation. e.g. 15 is converted to '00001111'
2015-04-29 (first published: 2014-02-24)
806 reads
Use Dynamic SQL to Improve Query Performance
This article by Jonathan Roberts demonstrates how to use dynamic SQL and overcome its downsides.
2012-02-17 (first published: 2010-05-20)
32,719 reads
Using Certificates to Sign Stored Procedures
How to sign stored procedures with certificates, this is useful if the procedures use dynamic SQL.
2010-06-21
11,401 reads
Version Control your Stored Procedures
This shows a method for generating scripts for SQL Server stored procedures and functions so they can be added to a version control management system (VCMS).
2010-05-06
20,814 reads
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After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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