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
54 reads
Scripts
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)
1,559 reads
2010-08-16 (first published: 2010-03-05)
3,846 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)
1,842 reads
2010-08-05 (first published: 2009-11-25)
7,295 reads
Find botched constraints, idxs, fks
Shows awesome view of columns with constraints and indexes and foreign keys to spot errors fast.
2010-08-04 (first published: 2009-12-03)
1,466 reads
2010-07-27 (first published: 2010-07-09)
2,168 reads
Custom Logging in a transaction
Ever happened that your custom log got rolled back and you were left with nothing but an error_message()?
Try to log into a table variable.
2010-07-22 (first published: 2010-06-30)
1,158 reads
2010-07-20 (first published: 2010-06-23)
2,586 reads
2010-07-19 (first published: 2009-11-16)
2,559 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers