Use this script to find tables, views, stored procedures that directly reference a column in the SELECT statement or in a join. This script will also return stored procedure and view names that have SELECT * in them when the specified column exists in the table referenced by that SELECT statement.
2002-03-15
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SP_WASTED_SPACE will run through each column in your database and print a report of all the character columns. It will then print a report with :* The maximum length that a column is storing* The average length of data stored in each column* The amount of wasted space in each column* Hints on how to […]
2002-03-14
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This procedure will display the rows, reserved, data, index and unused space used in KB for all user tables in the database. The idea is to call sp_spaceused repeatedly. Limitation: certain versions of sp_spaceused will truncate the table name to 20 characters.Speed will depend on current activity level and locking in the database. It will […]
2002-03-14
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Drop all indexes, constraints and statistics for given table.
2002-03-14
1,219 reads
Generates a XML document containing metadata on a specified table. Table name is provided to the procedure.
2002-03-13
597 reads
This procedure when executed with the correct parameters, backs up a database in the specified directory pathUsage :exec USP_BACKUPDATABASE databasename, directory_path
2002-03-12
601 reads
This short and simple script is a very fast way to count the rows in all your indexed tables. I ran it against a 2-gigabyte database containing large tables (some with over a million rows!), and it returned results in under a second.
2002-03-12
2,975 reads
Given a table name as the parameter, all the indexes on the table can be dropped. This script can be useful if you want to drop indexes on a table inside another procedure
2002-03-12
13,945 reads
This procedure when executed with the correct parameters, exports all stored procedures from a database into different .SQL files in the path specified.Usage :exec USP_PRINT_PROCS username, password, servername, databasename, directory path
2002-03-12
588 reads
Returns the Owner, Table Name, Row count for all user tables in the current database.
2002-03-11
642 reads
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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