2018-11-05 (first published: 2018-10-22)
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Scripts
sp_what
Better* than sp_who2, with less re-checking data to get answers. Also, it is SnaZy. With a capital Z.
*Dont you just love totally non subjective assessments like this?
2018-11-01 (first published: 2018-10-22)
3,036 reads
2018-10-29 (first published: 2018-10-19)
1,471 reads
Mechanism To Dynamically Build Pivot Table
Script to build PIVOT queries with an arbitrary number of columns
2018-10-25 (first published: 2018-10-15)
1,012 reads
2018-10-24 (first published: 2018-10-15)
936 reads
Detect and Repair Non Trusted Foreign Keys
Create the code to detect and repair non trusted foreign keys
2018-10-23 (first published: 2018-09-27)
727 reads
2018-10-12 (first published: 2018-10-04)
1,176 reads
How to Identify backup tables within production databases
How to identify backup tables within production databases that can be removed.
2018-10-05 (first published: 2018-09-28)
584 reads
number of rows and columns of an instance
Get the number of rows, columns, and space used by all tables in all databases
2018-10-03 (first published: 2018-09-20)
519 reads
Data Collections restart and clear cache files
Script to stop the default Data Collection sets, clear the cache files and then restart collection sets.
2018-10-02 (first published: 2018-09-25)
1,463 reads
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
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') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers