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PARSENAME Enhancement

The ParseName function is very useful for getting parts out of a string of characters between delimiters. But a limitiation is that you only can get four parts out, and the function only accepts dots as delimiters.The function I have written below overcomes that limitations, and add a new feature to enable "from left" and […]

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2007-08-27 (first published: )

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Display disk space stats for each table

Here is my replacement for sp_spaceused, I have altered it so that if no table is past in using the @objname parameter it loops through all the tables which is alot easyer than running the old one for each table and it displays the data one result set. So should be easyer to create a […]

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2007-08-23

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Script SQL Server DDL

Scripting SQL Server DDLRichard SutherlandIf you buy into the theory that all database objects should be contained in a source management system such as Visual SourceSafe, and that deployment of database projects should be done from the source management system, then the manner in which Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals [a.k.a., […]

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2007-08-20 (first published: )

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Prioritize Missing Index Recommendations (2005)

To report indexes proposed by the database engine that have highest probable user impact.  Note that no consideration is given to 'reasonableness' of indexes-- bytes, overall size, total number of indexes on a table, etc.  Intended to provide targeted starting point for holistic evaluation of indexes.

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2007-08-17

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Prioritize Missing Index Recommendations 2 (2005)

This is an enhanced version of my previous script: Prioritize Missing Index Recommendations (2005).To aid in evaluation of whether the recommended index is reasonable, I have added :1. counts for key columns and the total columns of the recommended index  2. the length/bytes for both key and all columns  Note this is 'per row', not […]

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2007-08-17

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Secure Cached Plans

The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?

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