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Index Locking Strategy

This script returns the index locking strategy informationfor all user tables in a database. It also generates the required TSQL statement to alter locking strategies if required. These statements require CTRL-C and CTRL-V individually into query analyser for execution. Results are best viewed in text only. This TSQL can be wrapped in a stored procedure […]

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2002-07-04

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VB6/ADO Stored Procedure Call Generator

Generates a VB6/ADO procedure prototype, procedure call, and ADO Command Object Parameters.Append calls.  To use, simply set the @spname variable equal to the name of your stored procedure, run, and cut and paste the output into you VB program.  The generated code may require some slight modifications, but this should save you a lot of […]

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2002-07-04

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Concatenate Rows without a cursor

You might come accross a situation where you want to retrieve the values of all the rows concatenated and stored in one variable. Here is the solution. Lets say you have a table called tblCustomerOrders which has CustID and OrderID. You now want all the OrderIDs for a particular Customer to be stored in one […]

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2002-07-02

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GetFileInfo2

An Improved version of GetFileInfo that now includes the space utilization of each datafile.  Provides more detail per file.  Predict when your files are going to grow!! Both data and log files. This script organizes information about the database files on the server.   A cursor is used to get the information from each database.  The […]

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2002-06-28

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Function to return a delimited list as a table

This SQL2000 function accepts a delimited list of values as a string and the character you want to use as a delimiter.The function then splits these out and returns them as a table.The function assumes that the input string will contain unique integer values.Useage: -  SELECT Id FROM fnSplit('1,2,3,4' , ',')

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2002-06-27

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Get File Info

This script organizes information about the database files on the server.   A cursor is used to get the information from each database.  The information is reported in Megabytes, including the next allocation from disk.  No bells and whistles...and if I can find how dbcc showfilestats works I will add the amount of space used in […]

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2002-06-24

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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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