Queries, Plans, and Indexes
Find indexes associated with queries and vice versa. Helps figure out what procedures are using indexes.
2008-11-18 (first published: 2008-07-31)
1,713 reads
Scripts
Backup And Restore Remain Time
Script to found out how much time before Restore or Backup Process remain
2008-11-17 (first published: 2008-09-30)
1,064 reads
Data extrapolation on the fly
Sometimes we need to generate the data based on a given date, to an end date (data extrapolation).
This is a easy way to do that without any temporary storage.
2008-11-14 (first published: 2008-09-25)
905 reads
Display SQL services information
This Script is used to display the SQL and windows services information
by using the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC),
2008-11-11 (first published: 2008-09-20)
1,384 reads
Yet Another Pad Utility
A useful user defined function for padding values from the left or right with any token, number, or character.
2008-11-07 (first published: 2008-09-13)
785 reads
2008-11-06 (first published: 2008-09-12)
1,023 reads
Get Record count of all tables of current database
This script will return record count of all user tables from the current database
2008-11-05
1,081 reads
Add Primary key
This Store procedure is used to add primary key to all tables in a database, if table does not contain it.
2008-11-04
986 reads
2008-11-04
1,956 reads
Delimited String Parsing Functions - TwoCol set
Feed it two delimited strings of horizontal data and it returns it back as a vertical table with the two column data in the same synchronized position order.
2008-11-03 (first published: 2008-08-05)
2,229 reads
Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
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As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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