Round Natural Numbers to the nearest Power of 10
An ITVF function that rounds a number to the nearest Power of 10
2017-05-15 (first published: 2017-05-05)
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2017-05-10 (first published: 2017-05-02)
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2017-05-09 (first published: 2017-05-03)
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Fix Orphan Users for All databases - Fixed Collation Problem
Most comman scenario which we face on everyday basis is to fix the orphan database users at the database level. You need to go to each database and fix the orphan users at the each databases.
2017-05-03 (first published: 2017-04-20)
698 reads
Quick and dirty script to ascertain datafile headroom
This is quick script to ascertain datafile headroom based on current size of the data in a file against the max size (which needs to be set for this to work!)
2017-05-02 (first published: 2017-04-19)
405 reads
2017-05-01 (first published: 2017-04-19)
1,260 reads
Find and Replace a value across all tables in database
End user has entered ‘goodmorning’ and ‘good morning’ interchangeably and it was causing logic failure at application level. So task was to replace ‘goodmorning’ with ‘good morning’ in database wherever it is there.
2017-04-28 (first published: 2017-04-10)
1,122 reads
Table Valued Function to factorize numbers up to 100 trillion
This table valued function will quickly find the prime factors of any number up to 10 trillion
2017-04-26 (first published: 2017-04-06)
430 reads
PowerShell 3rd Party tool Memory Alert
Keeps a memory leak under control until the bug fix is developed and applied. Short term band aid.
2017-04-25 (first published: 2017-04-13)
577 reads
Change Column datatype
This script is for converting Char to nChar and varchar to nVarchar with the same length.
This process has reduced the manual work by 80% (approximately) in our case.
2017-04-24 (first published: 2017-04-10)
601 reads
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers