2016-09-20 (first published: 2016-08-17)
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Scripts
Querying deadlock graph from SQL Extended Events
Sample script to read deadlock graph XML from default system health XEvent.
2016-09-16 (first published: 2014-10-16)
4,691 reads
Checking All Date Columns in a Table(s)
Find minimum and maximum values for all date columns in a table or range of tables, using a mask.
2016-09-15 (first published: 2014-10-27)
3,113 reads
Split string using multiple delimiters - version 2
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/split+string/117123/
The above script will split upto 256 char length only. This new version will split upto N length.
2016-09-14 (first published: 2014-10-30)
1,874 reads
Calculate distance between 2 coordinates/latlong
This function is used to get the distance between 2 coordinates/latlong in the different formats
2016-09-13 (first published: 2014-10-31)
1,718 reads
Read all trace file data and print the action performed
If you want to read trace file records from default trace location and want to print to see what are all the activities happened on SQL Server, the query will be helpful for you.
2016-09-12 (first published: 2014-11-12)
2,360 reads
Convert integers/numbers into binary format - viceversa
This functions are used to convert integers/numbers into binary format and viceversa.
2016-09-09 (first published: 2014-11-18)
1,901 reads
Date-based table purge
This procedure takes in charge the clean-up for a given table based on a date field
given as parameter and a retention expressed as a number of days.
2016-09-08 (first published: 2014-11-19)
1,536 reads
2016-09-06 (first published: 2014-11-20)
1,866 reads
2016-09-05 (first published: 2015-05-20)
2,682 reads
Blogs
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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