List All Databases, Sizes and Properties
This script will list all the databases on your server (SQL2000 only) as well as their sizes and some key properties. Very useful for keeping rogue developers under control 🙂
2003-05-17
819 reads
Mike Pearson
Auto Close and Auto Shrink - Just Don't
New author! Mike Pearson discusses how auto close was at the root of a performance problem he was troubleshooting, how you can check your servers easily, and discusses why both auto close and auto shrink are bad ideas in a production environment.
2003-05-05
22,456 reads
Get the Foreign Key Hierarchy
This script will run through the foreign keys on tables to produce a hierarchy of the tables in a database.This is useful when you need to purge and repopulate test databases with foreign key contraints
2002-07-24
2,148 reads
List All Jobs and Their Schedules
This queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules (if applicable) and the maximun duration of the job.
2002-06-20
4,282 reads
List All Jobs and Their Schedules (SQL7.0 & 2000)
This queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules (if applicable).
2002-06-04
1,783 reads
Get table sizes and rowcounts in MB (for VLDB)
This simple script is based on sp_spacedused, but returns values for all user tables in the database, with information in MB instead of the usual KB - which is useful for large databases. Simply run it in query analyser against the database concerned
2002-05-03
775 reads
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers