Display Identity Values and Other Info
Displays identity values, number of rows in the table, and the difference between the two. The difference can indicate the amount of deletions that could be going on.
2001-09-06
365 reads
Scripts
Display X Type Locking Users
This script creates a stored procedure that shows you a list of all the users that are locking objects on the database with mode X. It shows a full and detailed description on the user and object locked.
2001-09-06
1,476 reads
Stored Procedure to Backup all Databases
This is the script I use to backup all my DB's this does fulls and dumps them locally to disk then spools them off to FTP. This stored procedure is designed to take 4 parameters @bksrv : This is the name or the IP address of the spooler or backup server to send to. @user […]
2001-09-06
4,603 reads
Recompile Compiled Objects
This stored procedure, updates the schema version of user table(s), which in turn marks the Stored Procedures and Triggers for recompile.
2001-09-05
1,430 reads
Display Stored Procedure Parameters
Display any stored procedures using input and output parameters. I took the view, PARAMETERS that ships with SQL 2000 and cleaned it up a bit.
2001-09-04
1,269 reads
2001-09-04
551 reads
Handling Delimited Strings in T-SQL
There may be cases where you want to work with delimited strings in T-SQL. Following two examples will cover most of the stuff that you will face while working with strings.
2001-09-01
3,203 reads
Detect and Alert DBA of Blocking SPIDS
This script will detect and alert the DBA of blocking processes. The DBA can adjust the length of time the block has exisited before sending the net send message.
2001-08-29
5,238 reads
Script to obtain datadictionary from a SQL2000 db
This script creates a stored procedure that, when executed, queries the system tables of any SQL2000 database to return a complete, ordered datadictionary. *Warning**This script only works on tables which have the description property filled out as my main purpose was to query the extended property description feature new to SQL2000. If you have not […]
2001-08-27
3,145 reads
2001-08-26
1,430 reads
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Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers