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)
1,564 reads
Scripts
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)
2,287 reads
Agent Job Schedule Description
Yet another schedule description query with added grammatical improvements.
2016-05-06 (first published: 2016-04-20)
867 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)
813 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)
1,280 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)
1,263 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)
622 reads
2016-04-28 (first published: 2016-04-07)
508 reads
Calculate Age (in years)
An inline table valued function (iTVF) that can be used to calculate age in years.
2016-04-27 (first published: 2016-04-06)
1,077 reads
Format Date Time Function
Function do return common datatime formats of a date.
select dbo.[KDT_FN_FORMATDATETIME]('LASTDAY DDDD',getdate())
2016-04-26 (first published: 2016-03-29)
1,652 reads
Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Forums
cons for a dev machine in a different version of sql from our prod server
hi, im not a dba. For a couple of years our dev sql server...
Inquiry – Enforcing ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly via GPO
Hello, I would like to ask whether it is technically possible to redirect a...
Calculating Geometric Mean in Power BI
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Question of the Day
TempDB Facts I
Can I set Accelerated Database Recovery on tempdb?
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