View Autogrowth on a daily basis
Sends an HTML formatted Email with autogrowth Information for the last 24 hours.
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-20)
1,092 reads
Scripts
Read SQL Server Logs with TSQL
This is a small script designed to read the Contents of the SQL Server log based on None or more criteria.
2016-12-30 (first published: 2016-12-13)
929 reads
T-SQL implementation of FizzBuzz
A T-SQL implementation of FizzBuzz consisting of a single SELECT statement.
2016-12-28 (first published: 2016-12-15)
965 reads
Query Performance comparison between instances
Execute at source, and will generate an output with TSQL commands to create temp tables filled with top 50 long lasting queries from all databases.
Then execute output at destination and will do the same and show comparison of matching queries!!
2016-12-19 (first published: 2016-12-06)
901 reads
Check constraint to prevent insertion of invalid characters.
A column level check constraint may be used to prevent insertion of data containing characters within a specific ASCII range.
2016-12-12 (first published: 2016-11-30)
2,367 reads
Dynamic sql for convert SQL statement to txt/csv file
Github link: https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit/blob/master/Stored_Procedure/usp_bcpUnloadSelect.sql
Quick export to flat file.
Before use please enable xp_cmdshell.
2016-12-09 (first published: 2015-05-12)
2,388 reads
Unpivot SQL Select Data
Stored procedure to transform a 'select' result set such that each column value is presented on a separate row.
2016-12-08 (first published: 2015-01-26)
2,446 reads
Keyboard shortcut to select top 1000
select top * from table by highlighting the fully qualified, including database, table, using a keyboard shortcut.
2016-12-07 (first published: 2015-05-07)
2,920 reads
2016-12-06 (first published: 2015-07-27)
2,530 reads
Email SP Results
Will take a stored procedure and email the results in a dynamically generated embedded HTML table or as an attachment.
2016-12-05 (first published: 2015-05-29)
2,849 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
Forums
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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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