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)
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Scripts
2010-08-27 (first published: 2010-08-25)
3,695 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)
2,011 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
57 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)
1,561 reads
2010-08-16 (first published: 2010-03-05)
3,868 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)
1,843 reads
2010-08-05 (first published: 2009-11-25)
7,319 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)
1,471 reads
2010-07-27 (first published: 2010-07-09)
2,176 reads
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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