A Flexible Day Of Week Function
A Flexible Day Of Week Function where a criteria can be passed as an integer to a stored procedure.
2010-10-13 (first published: 2010-10-06)
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Scripts
Transcation Log space monitoring
This SP will monitor T-Log space and sends mail to DBA if log space usage is above threshold value
2010-10-05 (first published: 2010-10-03)
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2010-10-04 (first published: 2010-09-29)
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List all columns in server
I came across a project which required a list of all columns within a server and thought I would post it here in case anyone else had this requirement.
2010-09-30 (first published: 2010-09-28)
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2010-09-29 (first published: 2010-09-28)
1,638 reads
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)
2,342 reads
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)
3,812 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)
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2010-09-08 (first published: 2010-09-02)
2,379 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)
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Blogs
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
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My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
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Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
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Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
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AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers