View Errors in the Default Trace
Returns records with errors from the default trace ordered by most recent first
2009-11-12 (first published: 2009-10-29)
708 reads
Scripts
Wait for Mirror treshold
This procedure checks if a mirror treshold exists and wait until this treshold is cleared or after a specified time.
2009-11-10 (first published: 2009-10-23)
501 reads
Using a function to parse/return the Nth field of a delimited column
A useful SQL function to parse a single string with delimited values for the "N"th occurrence
2009-11-06 (first published: 2009-10-15)
1,453 reads
Custom cleanup procedure for backup files
There are times when maintenance plan is too simple to do the job, and SSIS is unreachable for you. Here is a simple stored procedure to help you.
2009-11-05 (first published: 2009-10-09)
1,553 reads
Retrieve consecutive records from the table based the value difference
Retrieve consecutive records from the table based the value difference
2009-11-04 (first published: 2009-10-06)
955 reads
2009-11-03 (first published: 2009-10-06)
1,955 reads
Generating Rollback Proc with CDC
This will generate a rollback procedure for any table with CDC enabled for all columns
2009-11-02 (first published: 2009-10-08)
1,064 reads
Ultimate Alter Script generator
In development enviornment we always get the modifications in tables from developers.As far as my concern writing scripts is tedious work for us. I hope below script will help you.
2009-10-30 (first published: 2009-10-01)
1,371 reads
Script SQL Table Schema as XML-XSD
When creating XML messages for Service Broker or other applications use this simple method to build a validation XSD.
2009-10-28 (first published: 2009-10-06)
1,543 reads
The Ultimate Connection Summarizer and Trouble Finder
Reports summaries, in 3 levels of detail, connections, running requests, open transactions + cursors, and blocking. Provides query text + plan for the piggiest running request of each group.
2009-10-22 (first published: 2008-09-18)
6,080 reads
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers