Defrag All Indexes On a Database
Script to list out all fragmented indexes for a given database, with options to only view them, reorganize them, or rebuild them in one fell swoop.
2012-05-25 (first published: 2012-05-15)
3,287 reads
Scripts
Last Backup Taken, or Not
Displays the last Full, Diff, and Log backup taken. If no backup has been taken that is displayed as well.
2012-05-24 (first published: 2012-05-15)
1,497 reads
Script to find Disk Space including Mount points
works two different ways using sql for 2000 and 2005 and powershell for 2008.
2012-05-23 (first published: 2012-05-01)
5,807 reads
2012-05-22 (first published: 2012-05-01)
827 reads
Find a text string in any column in a database
Find a string in any "string" (char, varchar, nchar etc) column in the database.
2012-05-18 (first published: 2007-12-19)
5,728 reads
Payment due date function
Calculates the nth due date for any given date, while accounting for weekends.
2012-05-16 (first published: 2007-10-11)
3,768 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)
2,976 reads
sa_help_rev.erse.sa.login
A script to generate a recovery script for setting your sa account back to the password it is using at the time of running this script.
2012-05-14 (first published: 2012-04-09)
992 reads
sp_Find2
Searches database for up to 4 keywords. It will search through SPs, UDFs, Triggers, SSIS packages, jobs, table names, and column names.
2012-05-10 (first published: 2012-04-18)
2,199 reads
2012-05-09 (first published: 2012-04-19)
1,358 reads
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers