This script converts hierarchical adjacency into nested json rows which contain the recursive "downlines" of each node. The table-valued function treats each row in the original adjacency as the root node in a recursive common table expression.
2019-11-12 (first published: 2019-11-08)
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T-SQL query to return the latest available database backup chain (Full, Differential and Log) of individual databases along with their backup size and compressed size.
2019-11-08 (first published: 2019-10-30)
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A diagnostic tool for identifying Performance features of active SQL Queries. It collects performance detail from DMVs for queries with executing requests and is designed to demonstrate and quantify Query Shaping optimisation techniques by: quantifying query workload and throughput characteristics providing behavioural descriptors of potential performance inhibitors - refer column ThrottlePotential The ThrottlePotential column is […]
2019-11-07
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T-SQL query to copy the rows of all the tables from one database to another database only if they have rows in Source DB and exact same Schema in both Source and Destination DB.
2019-11-07 (first published: 2019-10-30)
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2019-11-01 (first published: 2019-10-19)
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2019-11-01 (first published: 2019-10-22)
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Function to pad bigint with leading 0's or other single character
2019-10-31 (first published: 2019-10-23)
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This trigger will work even if you don't have the primary key on any table. Mechanism to configure the primary key in config table has been provided. This can be very helpful to solve the system audit requirements without much efforts.
Disclaimer : Audit Log trigger has performance overhead. It’s meant for table which is not frequently updated, deleted or inserted. Please take precaution when creating the trigger on the table having too many columns.
2019-10-15 (first published: 2019-10-10)
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I am using database properties to add some useful information for each database. Tired of exploring each database from the menu in SSMS to look for specific information, I decided to make a script listing the extended properties for all my databases. I am pleased to offer this to the community 🙂
2019-10-01 (first published: 2019-09-20)
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Functions to list the number of work days in period , determine if a given date is a work day, add work days to a given date.
Uses a table of holidays and a tally table.
2019-09-24 (first published: 2019-09-04)
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I have added a few indexes to one of my tables in SQL Server 2025:
ALTER TABLE dbo.CustomerContact
ADD CONSTRAINT PK_CustomerContact
PRIMARY KEY (CustomerID);
-- Create index on CustomerEmail
CREATE INDEX IX_CustomerContact_CustomerEmail
ON dbo.CustomerContact (CustomerEmail);
CREATE INDEX IX_CustomerContact_CustomerEmail
ON dbo.CustomerContact (phone);
I then do this to disable one index:
alter index IX_CustomerContact_CustomerPhone on dbo.CustomerContact disableI see this when I check the index status:
I decide to rebuild all indexes with this command:
ALTER INDEX ALL ON dbo.CustomerContactAfter I do this, what will I see for the index status? See possible answers