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To Get Latest SQL Job Status

This query will give you the current job status of all scheduled jobs on sql server. Just by using sysJobs, and sysJobHistory table you will get to know the details about the last status of the scheduled jobs, irrespective of their status like failed, successful, or cancelled.Note: You must have admin right on MSDB database […]

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2003-09-04

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Convert float to duration-time string

This UDF is using in reporting where lots of durations are calculated, stored and then summed up and averaged for reports.  By storing the durations as floats (which are similar to the fixed point numbers datetimes are stored as) math functions are simpler.The problem is that float-times are not human readable, and cast(@floatime as datetime) […]

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2003-09-03

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Execute large sql (>8000 chars)

With a dynamic sql script under 4000 chars use sp_executesql With under 8000 chars write it to a variable.For anything longer you can use this script.  Use UpdateText and WriteText to write your dynamic sql to a text/ntext field in a table somewhere and then pass its location to this script.

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2003-09-01

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Prioritised list to table

I wrote this to allow me to send a priority list of int ids.This takes a "," seperated list of integers and puts them into a table, along with an [insorder] field that allows you to sort them.eg 2,6,3,1,7 becomesints insorder ---- --------1    72    13    56    37    9Depending on what […]

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2003-09-01

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Track Long Running Queries

SQL2000 only.We use the attached script to schedule a SQL Agent job that sets up a Profile trace looking for long queries, and hourly imports them into a table.  This way we can historically (but with some degree of real time) look to see what queries put a load on the system.  We then allow […]

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2003-08-23

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Compare Parallel Data Streams

This a script to compare two parallel data streams, in my case production and QA.  Two extracts were created and a mapping table was created as a look-up between old and new recordids.  A final table TestResults was created to hold the results of the comparison.  The comparison table names and join syntax are controlled […]

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2003-08-21

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Delete old backup files

A stored procedure and two functions that given a path, a date and a file extension will do one of the following:-Delete all files of the supplied extension in that directory before a certain date.-Delete everything before the last full backup.I use this because disk space is tight and maintenance plans seem to delete old […]

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2003-08-21

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Display Defragmentation Of Selected Tables

This script will display the defragmentation of table(s) all indexes of selected tables and display a table/list of the DBCC SHOWCONTIG. It will aslo will report if there are tables in the list that can't be found in the current database. Run the script in the database where the tables you want to check are.Check […]

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2003-08-21

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BIT_COUNT() IV

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count('A')
What is returned?

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