Reindex Procedure with a Twist (or two) the SQL
A 2012 update to "Reindex Procedure with a Twist (or two)":
2015-09-15 (first published: 2014-05-16)
4,432 reads
Scripts
Get database size, used space, free space
Gets the size, amount of space used & unused, owner and modify date for all databases in a Sql instance.
2015-09-14 (first published: 2014-04-22)
4,463 reads
Deleting Duplicate Records
In Datawarehousing, a normal scenario is eleminating duplicate records/rows or deleting duplicate records, here's the solution.
2015-09-11 (first published: 2012-10-31)
5,044 reads
2015-09-10 (first published: 2014-05-08)
4,888 reads
Physical Server or a Virtual Machine?
Simple T-SQL Script to know whether your SQL Server is running on a Physical box or a VM.
Note: This Script works only on 2008R2 SP1 and above.
2015-09-09 (first published: 2014-05-22)
4,815 reads
Create MERGE statements with data!
A script to create MERGE statements with data for specific tables.
2015-09-03 (first published: 2014-05-19)
5,229 reads
SQL Server Performance Base Line Script
Performance Base Line Report from SQL Server DMVs and Perfmon counters
2015-09-02 (first published: 2013-02-04)
17,268 reads
Block altering indexed views.
Altering an indexed view will drop all indexes on it without warning, even if nothing is changed.
This will prevent accidental alters.
Script is divided into 4 parts, included testing and cleanup scripts.
2015-09-01 (first published: 2015-08-13)
1,004 reads
Registered server documenter
Returns server and instance information via a registered server query, regardless of SQL version.
This script is more of how to get the data, and not so much about the data returned by my choice of columns.
Tested on 2008+
2015-08-28 (first published: 2015-08-07)
1,391 reads
Retrieving XML data to Table from dm_os_ring_buffers
Retrieving XML data to Table from dm_os_ring_buffers for better readable purpose
2015-08-27 (first published: 2015-08-03)
999 reads
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The Empty Aggregate
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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