2012-06-20 (first published: 2012-05-30)
8,738 reads
Scripts
Script to calculate Precision & Scale of a Decimal Value
A script to help you find the Precision & Scale parts of a decimal value.
2012-06-19 (first published: 2012-06-04)
4,926 reads
Generate insert statements with column names for any or all tables
Generate a script of insert statements with column names for any table including those with identity columns.
2012-06-15 (first published: 2012-05-22)
3,140 reads
Random DEFAULT string for a column using CASE and NEWID
Sometimes you just need to populate a CHAR/VARCHAR column for testing with a random selection of string literals at table CREATE time. Here is a quick and easy script.
2012-06-14 (first published: 2008-01-16)
1,171 reads
A CONCAT Function For The Rest Of Us
SQL Server 2012 introduces a new string concatenation function. This can be recreated in earlier versions of SQL Server.
2012-06-06 (first published: 2012-05-16)
2,169 reads
Central Management Server Daily Script
These are scripts I run each morning on my registered CMS servers to check immediate health.
2012-06-04 (first published: 2012-05-09)
2,886 reads
Variable Grouping Using a Case Statement
The code below uses a CASE STATEMENT to group sales data based on date,week,month and quarter. It should be executed in AdventureWorks 2005 or 2008.
2012-05-30 (first published: 2012-05-10)
2,037 reads
All SQL Version info in one function
This function returns all the necessary version information in a table.
2012-05-28 (first published: 2012-03-21)
3,164 reads
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)
3,241 reads
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)
1,488 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
By HeyMo0sh
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps)...
Forums
Can an Azure App Service Managed Identity be used for SQL Login?
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
Azure Synapse database refresh
Hi Team, I am trying to refresh the Azure Synapse Dedicated pool from production...
how to write this query?
hi everyone I am not sure how to write the query that will produce...
Question of the Day
Fun with JSON I
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers