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Find Most executed queries

SELECT TOP 50
QueryState.execution_count
,OBJECT_NAME(objectid)
,query_text = SUBSTRING(
qt.text,
QueryState.statement_start_offset/2,
(CASE WHEN QueryState.statement_end_offset = -1
THEN len(convert(nvarchar(max), qt.text)) * 2
ELSE QueryState.statement_end_offset
END - QueryState.statement_start_offset)/2)
,qt.dbid
,dbname = db_name(qt.dbid)
,qt.objectid
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats QueryState
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(QueryState.sql_handle) as qt
ORDER BY...

2018-09-18

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Get all queries running against any specific table

/*Get list of all queries hitting any specific tables*/SELECT DISTINCT TOP 100ProcedureName = OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(sqlTxt.objectid) + '.' + OBJECT_NAME(sqlTxt.objectid),SQLStatement = SUBSTRING(sqlTxt.Text,(QueryState.statement_start_offset/2)+1,CASE QueryState.statement_end_offsetWHEN -1 THEN DATALENGTH(sqlTxt.text)ELSE QueryState.statement_end_offsetEND...

2018-09-18

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Question of the Day

Encoding URLs

I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table: 

CREATE TABLE Response
( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY
, ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000)
)
GO
If I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use?

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