Simpler First/Last Day of Months
Script uses simpler Dateadd function ensuring additions/substractions are based from 1st of month.
2005-01-03 (first published: 2004-12-02)
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Row Counts of Tables for a databse
I wanted to know which tables contains the most populated records in db. So I wrote this script.
2005-01-02 (first published: 2004-11-18)
123 reads
Generating sequential numbers - the fast way
It is often necessary to generate a table with sequential numbers, up to a specified upper limit N. For small N, a simple INSERT in a WHILE loop will do. But, for large N, that solution becomes too slow. This script presents a different approach. It generates sequential numbers from the binary representation of N, […]
2004-12-30 (first published: 2003-11-24)
664 reads
Function Number of Week Days between Two Dates
This function will calculate the number of weekdays between two dates passed. This allows for accurate tracking of "business days" for metrics in many different views.
2004-12-28 (first published: 2004-12-16)
285 reads
Collect Database Properties
To examine all the properties of a database is time consuming. The following script gives you a quick overview of the most important properties of all the databases on your SQL Server.
2004-12-27 (first published: 2004-12-10)
683 reads
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 […]
2004-12-24 (first published: 2004-12-07)
342 reads
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
2004-12-22 (first published: 2004-11-18)
366 reads
Audit script for User/Group permissions on a datab
SQL SCRIPT TO AUDIT THE PERMISSIONS FOR OBJECTS IN A DATABASE.
2004-12-21 (first published: 2004-12-06)
455 reads
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 […]
2004-12-17 (first published: 2004-11-05)
813 reads
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 […]
2004-12-16 (first published: 2004-11-11)
397 reads
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Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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