Changing Foreign key names to standard naming convention across the DB
Rename the Foreign keys to standard notation - FK_childTable_ParentTable
2010-02-24 (first published: 2010-02-09)
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Scripts
See the compile time
Useful if you think a SQL statement, Function, or SPROC is taking too long to compile.
2010-02-23 (first published: 2010-02-04)
985 reads
Serial ID Auto Generation
Scripts used to create the functionality to auto-generate your very own customized serial IDs.
2010-02-22 (first published: 2010-02-04)
1,859 reads
Fix users for SQL 7 thru 2008
This script will either reoprt or 'fix' lost or orphaned users after restore for all versions of SQL.
2010-02-19 (first published: 2010-02-04)
2,285 reads
2010-02-15 (first published: 2010-01-18)
24,151 reads
Database Users And Associated Database Roles
This script basically retreives all database users thier database roles for a database.
2010-02-10 (first published: 2010-01-20)
3,512 reads
2010-02-08 (first published: 2010-01-13)
4,177 reads
2010-02-05 (first published: 2010-01-18)
1,102 reads
Script Table or View structure
This code will let you script a Table or Views structure for source control.
2010-02-02 (first published: 2010-01-12)
2,232 reads
Listing Subscribed SSRS Reports including Parameters & their Values
This script will allow user to analysis their Subscribed Reports.
2010-02-01 (first published: 2010-01-11)
2,316 reads
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The Empty Aggregate
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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