I have a table named employees with an identity column named id. Also,last_name is a column in the table named employees. I created the employeestable and inserted 9 rows in it. If I do a select * from employees, theoutput looks like this:id last_name1 a2 b3 c4 d5 e6 f7 g8 h9 iThen I deleted […]
2004-11-29 (first published: 2004-10-13)
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This script extends the "Find strings in text of stored procedures" Script by LiviuB and and now finds thestring and removes it. You may modify script to just comment out the text.This script removes the text (in this case 'set dateformat dmy') from all non-system stored procedures in a database.Modify the variable @searchstring to contain […]
2004-11-26 (first published: 2004-10-13)
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Easy and Fast way to check Backup details. One line query to check backup status for all the databases. No need to go to each database or schedule job. Even you can use this query in customized application to get all the details on a single screen.
2004-11-25 (first published: 2004-10-14)
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This script uses two undocumented stored procedures that retrieve all tables in the database in which it is run and lists the data and index sizes, the sum of these sizes, and the table's size percentage of the entire database. The results are presented in descending order of the sum of the data and index […]
2004-11-24 (first published: 2004-10-25)
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Recently, I answered a question by a person on Experts Exchange.com on how to find the # of weekdays between two dates. This question was simplified greatly by the fact that the dates given would always be from Monday to Friday, and so the calculations needed were very simple.Then, while looking at the recent scripts […]
2004-11-22 (first published: 2004-11-10)
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This Function and the query will generate the script for Create / Drop/ Create Constraint based on a Naming Convention . More changes can be done on this. This is very simple
2004-11-18 (first published: 2004-11-05)
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A better version of the :"Finding first/last day of month by a date"
2004-11-17 (first published: 2004-11-04)
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backup log with truncate only doesn't shrink the file. Actually truncating log needs transaction to truncate. A simple way to reduce the log file size to 1KB.
2004-11-16 (first published: 2004-11-03)
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create this SQL as a stored procedure and give user execute permissions on it store procedure. that user will be able to see all the jobs and their associated schedules but won't be able to modify, create or execute job. This is particularly a request most often aske dby developer to view jobs/schedules on production […]
2004-11-15 (first published: 2004-10-29)
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some times after restore database, you find your logins and users mapping is lossed and no user can now logon to database using application. I faced that many times. To map all your database users with master..syslogins. save this procedure in current database and execute it. All users will be mapped with logins.
2004-11-12 (first published: 2004-10-29)
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By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers