Database File Growth Report Script
A T-SQL script to track and monitor the growth of your SQL Server Databases.
2025-09-12 (first published: 2025-09-04)
1,072 reads
Scripts
Index Efficiency & Maintenance Advisor
This script will help DBAs to find inefficient indexes and duplicate indexes, by providing the following metrics: usage statistics, fragmentation levels, size, and index duplication analysis.
2025-09-10 (first published: 2025-06-27)
946 reads
Enables Change Data Capture (CDC) on all user databases
This script loops through all user databases, skips system DBs and any you want to exclude, and enables CDC if it’s not already enabled.
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-25)
837 reads
Free T-SQL Script: Database Schema Documentation Generator for Generative AI Services Integration
This script automatically generates comprehensive schema documentation that can be easily consumed by AI services for natural language querying, automated report generation, and intelligent data analysis.
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-25)
1,466 reads
Fetch fields like email address from multiple records into single cell
COALESCE smartly helps to concatenating the multiple rows value into one cell.
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-25)
1,701 reads
Cleanup backup file folder future 7 days
Two PowerShell scripts to create backup folders and clean up old files.
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-16)
416 reads
Stored Procedure Generation Script
This script produces scripts for all the stored procedures in a database.
2025-06-18 (first published: 2025-06-13)
1,117 reads
T-SQL Table Valued Function to compare Semantic Versions
Semantic versioning (SemVer) is a standardized system for labeling software releases using a three-part number—major, minor, and patch—optionally followed by pre-release labels and build metadata. Comparing semantic versions is complex because it requires handling both numeric and string components, as well as special precedence rules for pre-releases and stable versions. SQL Server’s hierarchyid data type is ideally suited for comparing the numeric parts of semantic versions, enabling efficient and accurate ordering without the pitfalls of string comparison or manual parsing.
2025-05-27
323 reads
Script-Drop Orphan users from SQL Server Database
This script will help to find orphan users on all databases and will remove them.
2025-05-20
624 reads
2025-05-06
1,079 reads
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Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers