Remove Leading Zeros in any situation T-SQL
A quick script that removes leading zeros in a numeric stored as a string.
2022-12-30 (first published: 2022-12-26)
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A varchar(MAX) STRING_SPLIT function for SQL 2012 and above
An alternative for Microsoft's STRING_SPLIT function that will work on SQL Server 2012 and higher.
2022-12-19 (first published: 2021-03-05)
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Convert Lat/Lon Decimal Degrees to Trigesimal Codes
Simplified latitude / longitude in 10 fixed bytes.
2022-10-26 (first published: 2022-10-21)
509 reads
2022-09-02 (first published: 2022-08-23)
4,088 reads
Excel LET Formula for creating small values tables from a table or range
The Excel (365) "LET" formula below will return a formatted SQL Values Table "T1" that can be pasted into SSMS.
2022-04-06 (first published: 2022-03-29)
867 reads
Search Database Objects
A stored procedure to search database objects (triggers, scalar functions, table valued functions, views and stored procedures) for a user defined string.
2022-04-04 (first published: 2022-03-28)
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MSSQL Server AlwaysON: Get alerted for inconsistencies in logins, jobs and databases
This script will create the necessary login and linked servers on a given availability replica. Please ensure that the script is executed on all the replicas.
2022-02-22 (first published: 2022-01-25)
6,807 reads
Script DB Level Permissions v4.6
Script database and object level permissions for all database users
2022-01-12 (first published: 2021-06-11)
11,362 reads
SQL Server instance startup type check by SQL script
I have developed the script to check SQL Server instances startup type, sometimes we didn't know all our SQL instances startup type correctly configurated, especially we cannot distinguish the Automatic and Automatic(Delayed Start) from the direct query, the only way is querying from the registry, you can use this script in your environment to bulk […]
2021-12-24
1,296 reads
Get backup folder sizes from shared Location
Got a message from the Operation team as below Hi Harsha, I'm seeing a larger than normal rate of change for a week day on the backups for the SQL2000 servers. Did anything run differently yesterday compared to Monday? I have 22 sql servers and all the Weekend and Monthly backups goes to the location […]
2021-12-03
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