Search for a specified GUID (or its part) in all databases (updated)
This procedure searches for the specified GUID (or its part) in all (or selected one) databases
2011-02-21 (first published: 2008-01-24)
928 reads
Miscellaneous
Sorted views in 2005 and TOP clause
These examples show how You can circumvent the problem with not working TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY in views.
2008-02-22 (first published: 2008-01-22)
1,285 reads
Show all database's tables' columns' collations.
Created view displays all text columns' collations in the current database with the information whether
the collation is different from the database's one.
2008-04-04 (first published: 2008-01-22)
1,724 reads
Generating combinations 'm elements from n-element set'
This procedure generates a dataset with combinations of elements_to_select taken from number_of_values element set. It prints also the prepared query.
2008-04-01 (first published: 2008-01-21)
1,212 reads
2008-02-27 (first published: 2008-01-21)
1,027 reads
Effectively mapping primary key – foreign key relations
This script maps the primary key - foreign key relations regardless if the column names are the same or not.
2012-05-15 (first published: 2007-11-07)
2,963 reads
2007-12-27 (first published: 2007-10-23)
1,018 reads
Partitioning - Part 2
Continuing on with a look at SQL Server 205 partitioning features, Andy Warren delves into archiving techniques.
2007-10-08
9,122 reads
The Troubleshooting List
SQL Server guru Andy Warren brings us a list of things that he considers when things go wrong. Read about some of the common sense approaches to solving performance and other problems.
2007-10-03
4,594 reads
Working Your SOX Off
The Sarbanes-Oxley act has drastically changed the jobs of many DBAs with the audit and reporting requirements this act entails. Brandie Tarvin brings us some hints about how you can go about complying with the new requirements.
2007-10-01
3,800 reads
Blogs
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
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URL Safe or Not?
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URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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