Enhanced Index Rebuild Script
Enhanced version of Index Rebuilt Script originally written by Michelle Ufford, which now includes latest version updates and additional features.
2016-02-17 (first published: 2016-02-04)
1,959 reads
Scripts
Restore Redgate Transaction logs files via SQL
The script will restore the all the transaction logs files generated by Red Gate after extracting into .trn files.
2016-02-16 (first published: 2016-02-02)
543 reads
2016-02-15 (first published: 2016-01-29)
986 reads
Transfer/copy data between servers using Remote Connection
Synch tables from Server 1 to Server 2 with out dropping tables in server 2 which do not exists in server 1.
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-01)
1,109 reads
2016-02-05 (first published: 2014-05-15)
3,322 reads
Index stats with key,included columns, size - all you can eat
Get total access,updates, rowlocks,pagelocks, stats date,rowcount for all tables or specific table by partition
2016-02-04 (first published: 2016-01-22)
928 reads
Design : Find table with Identities with missing unique constraints
In an OLTP DB, other than an autogenerated Identity , there should be something else on the table which makes the non-identity data unique, as in, unique if you had to drop the ID column.
2016-02-03 (first published: 2016-01-22)
515 reads
Instance wide script to add user (the 4th way)
The script can be used to perform any task against all databases hosted on an instance. This is an example script that checks if a user is in a database if it is not then create the user and add it db_datareader role.
2016-02-02 (first published: 2016-01-15)
840 reads
Design : Find and script out Missing Foreign Keys
Find missing Foreign Keys by name, only reference single column primary keys which are on top of an identity,also find where column names reference table with column name ='ID'.
2016-02-01 (first published: 2016-01-21)
1,124 reads
Generic SQL backup with Azure support
Generic SQL backup with Azure support allowing several, handy backup options.
2016-01-29 (first published: 2016-01-21)
409 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers