Get Information on Current Traces Running
This is just a quick informational query to save as a snippet to get some quick information on running traces,...
2014-12-02
935 reads
Sheldon Hull
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Eliminate Overlapping Dates
I was looking for an efficient way to eliminate overlapping days when provided with a historical table that provided events...
2014-10-16
802 reads
Generate Random Date With Starting Point
If you want to create sample random samples when dealing with date calculations to test your results, you can easily...
2014-08-12
512 reads
Snippet Alert: Useful dates (eom, bom, etc)
Common date values you may need to reference that you may not want to write from scratch each time.
Hope...
2014-08-12
1,036 reads
Finding Groups - Consecutive Months
A step by step explanation on one way to get a consecutive period of months, which could easily be adapted...
2014-05-19
643 reads
Scalar functions can be the hidden boogie man
Ran across a comment the other day that scalar functions prohibit parallelism for a query when included. I thought it...
2014-02-11
845 reads
Renaming all references inside stored procedures and functions can be migraine worthy without a little help…
If you run across migrating or copying a database structure for some purpose, yet need to change the database references...
2013-08-13
1,921 reads
Shortcut to reference examples, syntax, and definitions straight from SSMS
I’ve never really used the F1 key for help files with most applications. I was surprised at the usefulness in...
2013-07-24
850 reads
Check Constraints can help enforce the all or nothing approach when it comes to column updates
If you have a set of columns inside your table that you want to allow nulls in, however if one...
2013-07-18
1,217 reads
SSMS 2012 Extender for the times you want some organization to the random pile of objects gathering in the dusty confines of that database
When dealing with large amounts of objects in a database, navigation can be tedious with SSMS object explorer. This extender...
2013-07-16
734 reads
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Anderson-Darling Calculation
Hi I am following an article posted on sql server central on the...
Use of an NCI - that does not contain the Column required.
Hello. I am a bit confused and not sure what terms to use to...
SQL Server 2019 error and Usage reporting not starting
we use two SQL instances on one server - both SQL Server 2017 and...
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