Blocking Notification
This script will send a mail whenever it detects a Blocking process. You need SQL Mail configured on this server in order to use or you can specify the pager number @company.comEx:- 1234567789@Skytel.com
2003-05-29
1,835 reads
Scripts
Notification of schema changes
This procedure reports on table schema changes, any new or deleted tables since the previous run of the stored procedure.It only reports on tables owned by 'dbo'
2003-05-29
439 reads
Script to determine if all chars are same in field
This script is a fix to the "Script to determine if all chars are same in field"posted by Harvard Kinkead (hneal_98) . That script doesn't handle strings with trailing spaces (e.g. set @repeat = 'bbbb ')It happens because of the nature of Len function. To bypass this limitation my script concatenates one character to tested […]
2003-05-29
88 reads
Table Pivoting revisited
A lot of table pivoting scripts use cursors to reach the desired results, but SQL scripting was developed to be utilized in a data set environment rather than sequential step-thru scripting.Normally, there are 3 types of Table Pivoting - 1) column explicit 2) column implicit and 3)single column. COLUMN EXPLICIT will place the row value […]
2003-05-29
435 reads
Find Duplicate Indexes - Episode 1 (The Early SQL Versions)
The excellent script contributed by G.R. Preethiviraj Kulasingham (Preethi) Sri Lanka (contributed 2/20/03, modified 5/22/03) identifies duplicate indexes for the database on which the script is run. It requires User Defined Functions, a feature restricted to SQL Server 2000.This version achieves similar results without using UDFs or creating any other permanent objects. It therefore works […]
2003-05-28
777 reads
Much better way to "Get name of current database"
Use SQL's own method to get the current DBName, no function needed.
2003-05-27
1,105 reads
EventClass in Trace tables
This script creates the table ProfilerEventClass and populates it with the EventClasses and EventNames.This table is useful when working with trace tables, to get the event names by joining the tables on EventClass.
2003-05-25
545 reads
Get name of current database
Retrieve the name of the current database for use with bcp and other procedures that require database name. This will help increase the portability of code and less maintenance required when migrating code to new database/server.
2003-05-22
215 reads
Create T-SQL Scripts for every object in the DB (in T-SQL)
This script will create scripts for every database object. This makes it easy to check them in to VSS.Usage : DMOScriptDatabase 'Databasename','Directoryname'
2003-05-19
619 reads
Create T-SQL Scripts for every table in the DB (in T-SQL)
This script will create scripts for every Table. This makes it easy to check them in to VSS.Usage : DMOScriptTables 'Databasename','Directoryname'
2003-05-19
899 reads
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers