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)
2,176 reads
Scripts
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)
1,321 reads
2010-08-27 (first published: 2010-08-25)
3,676 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)
1,999 reads
Reset Identity Seeds
Resets the identity seeds for all user tables to one plus the current maximum value of the identity field. Revised 24 August 2010.
2010-08-25 (first published: 2006-07-06)
385 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
52 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)
1,557 reads
2010-08-16 (first published: 2010-03-05)
3,834 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)
7,291 reads
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Independence Day 2026
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