Check Syntax on a Database
This script finds the first error on all Sprocs, Functions, Triggers and Views in a database. Works in SQL Server 2005 and 2008
2009-04-21 (first published: 2009-03-26)
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Scripts
2009-04-17 (first published: 2008-10-15)
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Comparing Stored Procedures, Part 6
Sixth in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
2009-04-15 (first published: 2009-02-26)
1,426 reads
2009-04-14 (first published: 2009-03-05)
2,093 reads
2009-04-10 (first published: 2009-03-13)
2,178 reads
2009-04-09 (first published: 2009-03-16)
1,416 reads
SQL 2000: Track Stored Procedure Changes
SQL Server 2000 does not log the procedures modified using ALTER statement. Here's the script to find out the same.
2009-04-07 (first published: 2009-03-02)
1,318 reads
Comparing Stored Procedures, Part 5
Fifth in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
2009-04-03 (first published: 2009-02-23)
1,437 reads
Return User Roles
A stored procedure that will return the roles assigned to a user. Can be called from software to validate a user set up with Windows Authentication.
2009-03-25 (first published: 2009-02-19)
1,184 reads
Determine Users with Permission on an Object
This script will walk the hierarchical chain of users and roles to find users with permissions on an object.
2009-03-24 (first published: 2009-02-18)
1,637 reads
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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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