2017-01-10 (first published: 2017-01-05)
943 reads
Scripts
Extracting string after and before a Character/Pattern
Finding characters/string before and after some character or pattern
2017-01-06 (first published: 2015-11-09)
265,947 reads
View Autogrowth on a daily basis
Sends an HTML formatted Email with autogrowth Information for the last 24 hours.
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-20)
1,076 reads
Read SQL Server Logs with TSQL
This is a small script designed to read the Contents of the SQL Server log based on None or more criteria.
2016-12-30 (first published: 2016-12-13)
916 reads
T-SQL implementation of FizzBuzz
A T-SQL implementation of FizzBuzz consisting of a single SELECT statement.
2016-12-28 (first published: 2016-12-15)
955 reads
Query Performance comparison between instances
Execute at source, and will generate an output with TSQL commands to create temp tables filled with top 50 long lasting queries from all databases.
Then execute output at destination and will do the same and show comparison of matching queries!!
2016-12-19 (first published: 2016-12-06)
852 reads
Check constraint to prevent insertion of invalid characters.
A column level check constraint may be used to prevent insertion of data containing characters within a specific ASCII range.
2016-12-12 (first published: 2016-11-30)
2,335 reads
Dynamic sql for convert SQL statement to txt/csv file
Github link: https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit/blob/master/Stored_Procedure/usp_bcpUnloadSelect.sql
Quick export to flat file.
Before use please enable xp_cmdshell.
2016-12-09 (first published: 2015-05-12)
2,362 reads
Unpivot SQL Select Data
Stored procedure to transform a 'select' result set such that each column value is presented on a separate row.
2016-12-08 (first published: 2015-01-26)
2,407 reads
Keyboard shortcut to select top 1000
select top * from table by highlighting the fully qualified, including database, table, using a keyboard shortcut.
2016-12-07 (first published: 2015-05-07)
2,906 reads
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers