After Restoring MSDB perform the following two steps
This script has two essential Steps after restoring MSDB
2010-09-21 (first published: 2010-09-20)
2,338 reads
Scripts
Way to Check Multiple LIKE without dynamic SQL
I was asked to do so by one of my colleague. So, I thought to share it with you how to use multiple LIKE conditions.
2010-09-16 (first published: 2010-09-15)
3,789 reads
Retreive the Schema of a Stored Procedure or Function
This script shows you code that retrives schema of a routine (Stored procedure or a function).
2010-09-09 (first published: 2010-09-04)
1,990 reads
2010-09-08 (first published: 2010-09-02)
2,367 reads
Just for fun
Do you need to take your mind off of the SQL mess you are dealing with? Try my funny words generator.
2010-09-03 (first published: 2010-08-27)
2,665 reads
Change the collation of Columns
This script changes the collation of columns to default database collation in all the tables
2010-09-02 (first published: 2010-09-01)
2,180 reads
Windows Group Membership Checker
A script to reveal which logins have access to your sql server via windows groups.
2010-09-01 (first published: 2010-08-26)
2,434 reads
Make string columns unicode compliant
Generates scripts to make text, ntext, varchar and char columns nvarchar/nchar
2010-08-30 (first published: 2010-08-26)
1,326 reads
2010-08-27 (first published: 2010-08-25)
3,681 reads
Get daylight savings time
After scouring the site, and googling until my fingers bled, I finally put together a function that will return the dates when daylight savings time began/ended since at least 1990.
2010-08-26 (first published: 2010-08-19)
2,002 reads
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers