Check owners, collations and backups
A script to check the owners, collations and backups on the server.
2012-04-16 (first published: 2007-10-19)
2,643 reads
Scripts
2012-04-13 (first published: 2007-10-19)
3,405 reads
Restore Server/Database users/roles
Restore server/database users and roles from another server when we are restoring databases to another server.
2012-04-12 (first published: 2007-10-23)
3,121 reads
Auto compression all indexs on all online db
Auto compression of index, if index includes > 1 million rows.
2012-04-11 (first published: 2012-03-19)
935 reads
Remove Logins Script
Generates a script to remove logins from a SQL Instance. Handles cases where logins own schemas.
2012-04-05 (first published: 2012-03-26)
1,365 reads
2012-03-30 (first published: 2008-04-21)
3,226 reads
Generate index on foreign key columns
Script find all foreign key without index in database and create new one for them.
2012-03-29 (first published: 2008-01-25)
3,405 reads
Select, Update, Delete, Insert etc.. in many servers using 1 query
Query Servers using 1 sql statement. Will make your job easy!!!
2012-03-28 (first published: 2008-01-16)
3,366 reads
DBCC Reindex with Statistics Information and table name optional
Reindex all tables, showing statistics before and after reindexing, table name optional.
2012-03-27 (first published: 2008-01-30)
3,122 reads
2012-03-26 (first published: 2008-01-23)
3,251 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