Magic 8 Ball

This script creates a stored procedure that mimics a Magic 8 Ball

Stupid Coding Tricks: The T-SQL Mandelbrot

The bar for entry into CodeSOD is pretty straight forward: professionally-developed code that elicits that certain What The— reaction. Though there have been a few exceptions over the years, generally speaking, student code, hobbyist code, and amateur code need not apply. That said, I'd like to try something a little different today. Today's example is not technically professionally-developed, it's a Stupid Coding Trick.

"So I was bored at work one day," Graeme Job explains, "and wondered, what's the most useless thing I could do with my time without actually doing anything. Then it hit me. I could use T-SQL to generate... Mandelbrot."

Graeme continued, "Following is a single T-SQL SELECT statement that generates a text-representation of a Mandelbrot Set. The results are best viewed in text-mode."

Unused Procedure lists - Easiest way

This function is used to get the unused stored procedure list for which doesn't used for given noofdays.

Generate RESTORE DATABASE Script without Using CMDSHELL

Use this script to generate RESTORE DATABASE scripts for all .BAK backup files from backup location during Instance or Database migration.

Get a CSV list of columns in a table

Short little script to get the columns in a table in order into a CSV format.

Can be useful for select or insert statements.

Generate password using PowerShell

If you want to generate temporary passwords, can use my script.

Split String Function

This In-line Table Valued Function returns a table with individual records parsed from a string.

A script to answer: Should I use SPARSE?

A brief introduction to the sparse option and script to help decide when to use it

Query to find the Job Output file location at each job step

Query to find the Job Output file location at each job step.
This helps if you want to find out the location of each output file of jobs to find out whether those are going to the right location.

List CLR Objects in Database

Script lists all the clr objects in the database.