2016-05-16 (first published: 2012-10-17)
5,578 reads
Scripts
Compare two tables for structure and layout
Compare the structure/layout of two tables within an instance of SQL Server (version 2012) and return non-matches.
2016-05-13 (first published: 2014-04-23)
2,950 reads
Aggregrating varchar columns
Concatenate columns grouping on Index column (approach for summing varchar columns by grouping on index)
2016-05-12 (first published: 2009-09-13)
1,591 reads
sp_spaceused rewritten as one query (no cursors)
Query that simulates running sp_spaceused on every applicable object in a database and gathering it all into a single result set.
2016-05-10 (first published: 2013-06-03)
2,294 reads
Agent Job Schedule Description
Yet another schedule description query with added grammatical improvements.
2016-05-06 (first published: 2016-04-20)
869 reads
Get Space on SQL hardrive
I was recently asked to monitor the Database size on the SQL server, and display the results in a report.
2016-05-05 (first published: 2016-04-16)
818 reads
DBCC CHECKDB to a table
An enhanced version of a script originally posted by Robert Pearl some time ago. It now takes into account changes in the tabelresults for CHECKDB in latter versions of SQL Server.
2016-05-04 (first published: 2016-04-20)
1,296 reads
Brute Force data search tool
searches entire db for a string, number, or date, returns list of results
2016-05-02 (first published: 2016-04-20)
1,275 reads
SQL server Agent - Status
As part of the application to monitor SQL health I created.
The procedure returns status of the SQL server Agent
2016-04-29 (first published: 2016-04-16)
639 reads
2016-04-28 (first published: 2016-04-07)
524 reads
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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