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)
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Scripts
2010-07-27 (first published: 2010-07-09)
2,166 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)
1,155 reads
2010-07-20 (first published: 2010-06-23)
2,583 reads
2010-07-19 (first published: 2009-11-16)
2,554 reads
2010-07-15 (first published: 2010-06-16)
1,914 reads
Parsing / breaking character separated values in a table in one query
At times, we have situation to parse the character separated string in the table column.
2010-07-14 (first published: 2010-06-17)
2,212 reads
2010-07-08 (first published: 2010-06-17)
1,440 reads
Get concatenated value for a column without cursor
This script provides comma separated values of one column for each value of another column. It provides it in SQL 2005 without using cursor.
2010-07-06 (first published: 2010-06-14)
2,303 reads
How to output datafiles location using sp_helpdb?
This is a quick way of outputting the location of your database files/dbsize/date created on your instance.
2010-07-02 (first published: 2010-06-06)
1,373 reads
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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