2016-10-28 (first published: 2016-10-05)
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Scripts
Getting top ranked employee detail for each department
Using OVER clause with ROW_NUMBER() function to get top ranked employee detail as per each department.
2016-10-25 (first published: 2016-10-03)
840 reads
Extracting only Deadlock details from ErrorLog
If you want to extract only deadlock details, use the script.
2016-10-24 (first published: 2014-12-03)
3,946 reads
2016-10-21 (first published: 2015-05-12)
2,434 reads
2016-10-20 (first published: 2015-05-15)
1,667 reads
Calculate two internships
Calculates total length of services for a employee. Calculates( addition or subtraction) two internships in form of yy.mm.dd
2016-10-19 (first published: 2016-10-03)
531 reads
Copy Backup Files to Remote Shared Location and Delete them periodically
If you have a requirement where you need to copy all your backup files to any remote shared location from your local folder/drive and after that you need to do a periodic cleanup of the backup files, you can use my script.
2016-10-18 (first published: 2015-06-01)
2,118 reads
2016-10-17 (first published: 2016-10-03)
894 reads
Recompile All Databases stored Procedures
When code is getting stall, sometimes the execution plans are point to the wrong or out dated or old objects. You would need to recompile all the stored procedures
2016-10-14 (first published: 2016-09-26)
4,434 reads
Expand Template with Values from Result Set
This stored procedure extracts template variable names and values from a SQL result set in order to process the template.
2016-10-13 (first published: 2016-09-14)
385 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers