Column names, data types, and lengths
I used to list from sysobjects to get this information, but found the INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a lot easier.
2003-05-05
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Scripts
UDF to get first date or trim time for Datepart.
Not long ago I was in a forum discussion when someone presented another way to get the date with time value of midnight by doing similar to thisDATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,@DATE),0)Which I find is much cleaner than any other option I have seen or tried myself. Seeing this I realized there are many other dates that can be […]
2003-05-02
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DB Details - Tables, Rows, Columns, Primary Keys
This procedure will give you the list of tables in the current database along with total columns in the table, no. of rows and the primary key(s) defined for the table.Mohit NayyarMCP, MCAD (.Net), MCSD, MCDBA
2003-04-30
779 reads
fnArabToEnglish
Last year I pulished a function ,named fnArabToEnglish,which can convert a arabic number to english ,such as turn 1234.56 to 'one thousand two hundred thirty four and cents fifty six'.Mr Rick send me a message with a bug of thefunction today,I get rid of the bug and publish the second time.I hope you like this […]
2003-04-30
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How to get ColumnNames, datatypes and length
Very frequently I used to use sp_help to find column names, datatypes and length of datatypes. Sp_help outputs a lot of data which i really don't require to see. so I devised this script
2003-04-30
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2003-04-29
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Full server documentation
This script is intended for SQL Server professionals that needs to have a quick snapshot from an environment with all relevant information about the databases. It's a compilation from multiple scripts, and works in SQL Server 2000.I think that works on 7.0 too, but may have some compilation issues.Don´t forget to see the section MANUAL […]
2003-04-28
4,766 reads
spaceused by user tables
to figure out space used by tables. I have seen different versions of them .. here is a very simple effective one!!!
2003-04-28
100 reads
Delete old backup files
This is one example of how you can make backups with a date stamp for the file name. You can then periodically remove the files that are older than a specified date by simply placing a few lines of code in a job step and calling the supplied sp and passing the date from which […]
2003-04-25
783 reads
List of all tables in DB, with row count sp
This stored procedure will list all user tables in the current database, along with the number of rows in the table. This version uses dynamic SQL to retrieve the number of rows, to overcome the need for an index on all tables. I use this to document legacy databases, I find that they may have […]
2003-04-24
743 reads
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Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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