Find tables unused since last SQL Server restart
This script will return tables that haven't had any user activity since the SQL Server Service was last restarted. SQL 2005+
2011-07-22 (first published: 2010-01-28)
5,591 reads
Scripts
Backup or Restore progess
This procedure provides you the progess of the database backup or restore. We can execute the procedure to find the remaining time for completion of the backup or restore.
2011-07-18 (first published: 2010-02-19)
2,374 reads
consolidated script generator for multiple stored procedures
Consolidated script generator for multiple stored procedures (existing and/or newly created) in MS Sql Server 2000/2005/2008 at one go
2011-07-15 (first published: 2011-03-28)
2,070 reads
2011-07-12 (first published: 2011-07-01)
1,141 reads
2011-07-11 (first published: 2011-07-02)
2,115 reads
Get information from tables
Give information in tables such as type size and description of each of the columns
2011-07-08 (first published: 2011-07-06)
1,478 reads
Email Long Running SPID Info
This script will email info about the longest running SPID in an HTML formatted table
2011-07-07 (first published: 2011-06-27)
2,196 reads
Changing Foreign key names to standard naming convention across the DB
Rename the Foreign keys to standard notation - FK_childTable_ParentTable
2011-07-06 (first published: 2010-02-09)
1,177 reads
Date Dimensions in T-SQL using CTE
T-SQL Script for Time Dimension Table Data: Populates Data between two dates for Reporting Solutions.
2011-07-04 (first published: 2010-06-14)
3,828 reads
Backup all Filegroups
A short script to backup all filegroups, for those who utilise filegroups within a database.
2011-06-29 (first published: 2010-07-20)
1,362 reads
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Question of the Day
Detecting Characters
I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers