2016-07-18 (first published: 2016-06-28)
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Scripts
Get earliest and latest date values in a database
Query the earliest and latest date values found in all datetime columns in the current database.
2016-07-12 (first published: 2016-06-21)
3,269 reads
2016-07-05 (first published: 2016-05-26)
4,934 reads
2016-07-04 (first published: 2016-06-08)
893 reads
2016-07-01 (first published: 2016-05-24)
675 reads
Job Step Log Output file path
If you have a requirement to carefully have the output file against each sql agent job step, you can use this script. If incase, there are many sql agent jobs and by any reason if any of the step does not have proper o/p file, this script can automatically create the o/p file.
2016-06-30 (first published: 2016-05-20)
1,580 reads
Getting LEAD and LAG values manually
LEAD and LAG functions are new in SQL Server 2012 , This short Script could be used to get these values in Earlier versions also
2016-06-28 (first published: 2016-05-18)
802 reads
Function for Getting Interval Dates by days,months,years.
Function for Getting Interval Dates by days,months,years for particular week number, for particular month, for particular date between 1 to 31. etc...
All in One Date Interval Related Function.
2016-06-27 (first published: 2015-11-27)
1,970 reads
Send Email to recipients with Attachment using PowerShell
If you have a requirement to send email to recipients with attachment, can use the script.
2016-06-24 (first published: 2016-05-17)
3,168 reads
New T-SQL Fixed Width "Splitter"
A brand new tally table based, fixed width "splitter" that can be used for much more than just string splitting
2016-06-22 (first published: 2016-05-14)
1,992 reads
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The Disabled Index
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Question of the Day
The Disabled Index
I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers