Function to find non-printable characters
The function is used to find non-printable ASCII characters in an input string.
2009-05-21 (first published: 2009-04-24)
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Scripts
2009-05-14 (first published: 2009-04-08)
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Last Sunday
Needed to return the week ending date as Sunday for daily transactions multiple times, for several aggregate reports. This function returns the last Sunday for past or future weeks.
2009-05-11 (first published: 2009-04-15)
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Cluster Information
This script will display information about the instance(s) on your cluster. Name of nodes, active node and drive letters of the resources
2009-05-08 (first published: 2009-04-15)
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2009-05-07 (first published: 2009-03-27)
1,609 reads
Convert GMT/UTC to Local datetime
International Applications require timezone handling for different users Here is how to do this with SQL.
2009-05-06
4,127 reads
Easily calculate the size of your tables
This quick and dirty sql will tell you the number of rows in your tables, the size in MB of yout data, and the total size (including indexes)
2009-05-05 (first published: 2008-10-04)
1,669 reads
The Ultimate Prospective-Index Column(s) Selectivity Analyzer
Gets single-column and cumulative-column selectivity stats and @Top largest dupe sets for each cumulative column stepping for a set of one or more columns for a table.
2009-05-03 (first published: 2008-08-01)
2,135 reads
What SQL JOb's are running on 2005 Server
This script returns the information of all SQL Jobs that are running on the server with the latest status.
2009-05-01 (first published: 2009-04-08)
1,626 reads
Check if a sql server agent job ran
Checks if a sql server job ran successfully in the last xx minutes.
2009-04-29 (first published: 2009-04-02)
1,445 reads
Blogs
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers