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Number of Weekdays between two dates - Set Based

Inspired by a post here at SQLServerCentral, I wrote this function to calculate the number of days between two dates that are weekdays. In order to achieve this I used a common SQL table that contains a sequence of number for 1 to X. This was used as an input to the datediff function, and […]

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2004-12-24 (first published: )

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Retrieving all indexes of the Database.

The Script outputs all the indexes in the Database.I have used the sp_helpIndex system stored procedure here to retrieve all the indexes available for the Table . This is extremely useful in identifying all the indexes in a database in a single query

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2004-12-22 (first published: )

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Update multiple rows (in a set) using a single SP

Here is another variation of processing multiple records with a single procedure call but allowing for set processing.The helper functions make use of the sequencetable pattern. These helper functions can be used to parse strings into records, so one gets a list, or simply return the nth field.There are two functions that will parse into […]

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2004-12-17 (first published: )

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Large auto-job-creation script for adding backups

This script creates a stored proc that was intended to run from a trigger on the master..sysdatabases for each database creation. Alas. It will create three jobs for each database you apply it to. First, it'll create a job to run a full backup each Sun, at 5am (see below). Those backups will be retained […]

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2004-12-16 (first published: )

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Auto Fix Orphaned Users

Add this procedure to the master database, it can then be executed from any DB to fix orphaned users (very useful when moving back to development). Using sp_msforeachdb with the proc allows you to resolve orphaned users in all databases in a single command: SP_MSFOREACHDB "USE ?; EXEC SP_AUTOFIX_USERS;"

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2004-12-15 (first published: )

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Build DATELOOKUP table

This script creates a table named DATELOOKUP which is used for looking up date related values. Each record represents date related info about the date in the column dtDate. For example the iMonth column stores the integer value of the month of dtDate and sShortMonth stores the abbreviated name of that same month. Use this […]

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2004-12-13 (first published: )

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Where_Am_I

This SP takes a string to be searched as input parameter, loops through all tables, views, Sp-s in the database andreturns the name of the object it was found and number of occurences

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2004-12-10 (first published: )

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Tracking All the Queries

I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?

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