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)
2,673 reads
Scripts
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)
2,204 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)
2,448 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)
1,342 reads
2010-08-27 (first published: 2010-08-25)
3,705 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)
2,017 reads
Object Explore
Summary information and metrics for any column in a given Table/View. Metrics include: number of records, distinct records, nulls, min, max, std, quartiles, kurtosis, skew, etc.
2010-08-24
65 reads
Using GO Repeat To Fill Tally Table
Fill a small Tally table with a 1 column primary key using GO keyword to repeat an insert.
2010-08-18 (first published: 2010-08-16)
1,565 reads
2010-08-16 (first published: 2010-03-05)
3,882 reads
Enterprise wide Backup Audit
Enterprise wide Backup Audit that produces backup information in a csv format.
2010-08-06 (first published: 2009-11-10)
1,844 reads
Blogs
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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