AlwaysON health check alerts
The script gets the database health check whether synchronized or not from the primary or secondary. This code needs to scheduled through as a job to get alerts.
2025-10-20 (first published: 2025-10-13)
807 reads
Scripts
Bat and SQL script to generate DB user permissions for all Databases in SQL server
Get a list of all user permissions in a database
2025-10-15 (first published: 2025-10-13)
2,300 reads
Database File Growth Report Script
A T-SQL script to track and monitor the growth of your SQL Server Databases.
2025-09-12 (first published: 2025-09-04)
1,114 reads
Index Efficiency & Maintenance Advisor
This script will help DBAs to find inefficient indexes and duplicate indexes, by providing the following metrics: usage statistics, fragmentation levels, size, and index duplication analysis.
2025-09-10 (first published: 2025-06-27)
973 reads
Enables Change Data Capture (CDC) on all user databases
This script loops through all user databases, skips system DBs and any you want to exclude, and enables CDC if it’s not already enabled.
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-25)
859 reads
Free T-SQL Script: Database Schema Documentation Generator for Generative AI Services Integration
This script automatically generates comprehensive schema documentation that can be easily consumed by AI services for natural language querying, automated report generation, and intelligent data analysis.
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-25)
1,490 reads
Fetch fields like email address from multiple records into single cell
COALESCE smartly helps to concatenating the multiple rows value into one cell.
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-25)
1,721 reads
Cleanup backup file folder future 7 days
Two PowerShell scripts to create backup folders and clean up old files.
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-16)
436 reads
Stored Procedure Generation Script
This script produces scripts for all the stored procedures in a database.
2025-06-18 (first published: 2025-06-13)
1,139 reads
T-SQL Table Valued Function to compare Semantic Versions
Semantic versioning (SemVer) is a standardized system for labeling software releases using a three-part number—major, minor, and patch—optionally followed by pre-release labels and build metadata. Comparing semantic versions is complex because it requires handling both numeric and string components, as well as special precedence rules for pre-releases and stable versions. SQL Server’s hierarchyid data type is ideally suited for comparing the numeric parts of semantic versions, enabling efficient and accurate ordering without the pitfalls of string comparison or manual parsing.
2025-05-27
338 reads
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
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