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)
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Scripts
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)
6,104 reads
2009-10-21 (first published: 2009-10-01)
2,329 reads
The Ultimate Table Searcher Mk2
Searches for tables who's names contain the search string. Gives Aggregate Size, Rows, Index, and Column information as well.
2009-10-20 (first published: 2008-11-04)
938 reads
The Ultimate Column Searcher
Searches for columns with names containing @Colname that belong to tables with names containing @TableName or schemas with names containing @SchemaName. Gives size and rowcount for tables.
2009-10-16 (first published: 2008-08-01)
1,535 reads
The Ultimate Index-Less Foreign-Key Finder
Searches for foreign key constraints that don't have fully matching indexes. The best partial matching indexes are outputted with MatchCounts and column comparisons.
2009-10-15 (first published: 2009-10-01)
1,958 reads
The Ultimate Table Searcher
Searches for tables who's names contain the search string. Gives Size and Rows information as well.
2009-10-14 (first published: 2008-08-01)
2,296 reads
The Ultimate Foreign Key Researcher
Searches for actual and potential foreign key columns for a given primary key reference.
2009-10-12 (first published: 2008-06-20)
2,552 reads
2009-10-09 (first published: 2009-09-29)
2,108 reads
The Ultimate Precompiled Procedure Searcher
Searches precompiled procedures for the provided search string, optionally limiting to names matching a 2nd search string.
2009-10-08 (first published: 2008-06-20)
1,923 reads
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
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', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers