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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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Finding first/last day of month by a date

This script finds the first day of previous, current and next month as well as last day of previous, current and next month.The calculation is based on the ISO date format which makes it independant of the date format used on the SQL Server.The calculation is performed from a date - it can be altered […]

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2004-12-02 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

The Empty Aggregate

I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder]
(
[OrderID] [int] NULL,
[CustomerID] [int] NULL,
[total] [money] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
What is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
       COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;



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