2017-05-01 (first published: 2017-04-19)
1,200 reads
Scripts
Find and Replace a value across all tables in database
End user has entered ‘goodmorning’ and ‘good morning’ interchangeably and it was causing logic failure at application level. So task was to replace ‘goodmorning’ with ‘good morning’ in database wherever it is there.
2017-04-28 (first published: 2017-04-10)
1,102 reads
Table Valued Function to factorize numbers up to 100 trillion
This table valued function will quickly find the prime factors of any number up to 10 trillion
2017-04-26 (first published: 2017-04-06)
399 reads
PowerShell 3rd Party tool Memory Alert
Keeps a memory leak under control until the bug fix is developed and applied. Short term band aid.
2017-04-25 (first published: 2017-04-13)
550 reads
Change Column datatype
This script is for converting Char to nChar and varchar to nVarchar with the same length.
This process has reduced the manual work by 80% (approximately) in our case.
2017-04-24 (first published: 2017-04-10)
587 reads
Index Utilization Summary
This report shows all the Indexes on user defined table or view and how effectively they are being used in our project.
2017-04-20 (first published: 2017-04-10)
900 reads
Truncate a table that has foreign keys referencing its columns
This stored procedure will truncate a table even when other tables have FKs referencing columns in it. It drops the Fks, truncates the table, re-creates the FKs
2017-04-19 (first published: 2017-03-28)
858 reads
2017-04-17 (first published: 2017-03-27)
541 reads
Table Valued Function to return a range of prime numbers
A fast table valued function to generate a list of prime numbers within the range specified by the parameters.
2017-04-12 (first published: 2017-03-30)
423 reads
2017-03-30 (first published: 2017-03-16)
13,898 reads
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After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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