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move all indexes to a secondary file group

Move all (or chosen) standard indexes from your primary file group to a secondary file group (hopefully located on a seperate array)excludes clustered indexes, statistics and indexes associated with a primary keywhen you run it - set the debug to 1 to identify what the script will move, set it to 0 to actually perform […]

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2006-06-19 (first published: )

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UDF: Parse a delimited list of paramters

After replying to a post today I thought I'd share this with all.This is a user defined function that I use to return a table of parameters passed in a parameter string. Function UsageSelect * From dbo.fnParseParamString ([@ParamString='Delimited String of parmaters'],[@Delimeter='Delimiting Character'])Lets say you are concatenating a list of form data from a web page […]

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2006-06-13 (first published: )

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Script To Show Which Tables Are Changed

The following T-SQL query batch will show you which tables was changed since last execute. Tracking information: (1) changes row count /insert,update,delete/; (2) changes IDENTITY value; (3) changes physical allocations /used pages/; (4) added new tables; (5) dropped tables. The batch must be initialized before using (at least once executed). I use this batch to […]

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2006-06-12 (first published: )

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Generate Add Foreign Keys statements for the table

I was going through the painfull optimization of the database of creating better clustered indexes (not the default ones on the primary key).This operation was requiring removing all foreign keys to this table and then recreation them again.I created this script to optimize this quite tidious task.

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2006-06-08 (first published: )

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2005 readiness

A script to test your database for 2005 readiness.these features are as described by the SQL 2000 BPA, however this script will run on SL 6.5,7,2000Please note that this is not a guarantee of readiness, however it is an indication that there are issues you may have to resolve to run your databases in 2005

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2006-06-02 (first published: )

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Pagination in stored procedure

You recently published a script showing how to do pagination (e.g. results 20 - 30 of 100) It's also possible to do it quicker and more elegantly without having to resort to building the sql string dynamically (never a good thing IMHO). You pass in 2 parameters, @PageIndex is the first record you want (so […]

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2006-05-31 (first published: )

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Backup Verification

The following script runs against the current server and retrieves number of days since last full or differential and the number of days between them. it also retrieves the number of hours since the last transaction log backup.It currently returns a grid output.currently the script is under going changes to send XML back to an […]

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2006-05-22 (first published: )

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BIT_COUNT() III

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count(-1)
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