Generate stored procedure parameter list based on table
Generate stored procedure parameter list based on table, useful when creating new SPs on tables with lots of columns.
2009-12-04 (first published: 2009-11-10)
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t-sql first last day date of the month
Returns the First or last day date of the month for a given date.
2009-12-01 (first published: 2009-11-11)
2,859 reads
usp_ShrinkAllLogs
Replacement script for usp_ShrinkDBLogs, updates for SQL 2008 deprecating the WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY method.
2009-11-27 (first published: 2009-10-30)
978 reads
Display COUNT(*) but ONLY TOP 100
Let’s say you have a result set with 5000 records but you want to display only 100 of them and in the same time to display the count of ALL records (5000).
2009-11-20 (first published: 2009-11-05)
2,464 reads
Split string into table, separator can be more than 1 char
Split string like ('123,43,5465,6788,1231,111', ',') into table, separator (,) can be more than 1 char
2009-11-19 (first published: 2009-11-05)
1,376 reads
Scripts for Full DB Compression at partition level
Data compression is a key feature with SQL 2008. This script, can compress all DB objects (partition/non-partitioned) according to Partition Range you specifiy.
2009-11-18 (first published: 2009-11-05)
1,158 reads
2009-11-17 (first published: 2009-11-06)
1,007 reads
Search in your T-SQL objects
This procedure searches for your criteria not only in code, but also in objectnames
2009-11-16 (first published: 2009-10-20)
1,090 reads
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)
702 reads
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)
499 reads
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers