Automate Data Purity Investigation
Sometimes running DBCC CHECKDB WITH DATA_PURITY returns thousands of affected columns. This script automates the identification of those columns.
2015-04-13 (first published: 2013-07-04)
2,422 reads
Scripts
Find Stored Procedures and Functions That Reference Certain Tables
Find any code objects that interact with a given table/view, or call another given code object.
2015-04-10 (first published: 2013-07-05)
4,633 reads
Parse XML to table
A stored procedure that will parse (shred) the contents of any well-formed XML document into a SQL table.
2015-04-08 (first published: 2013-07-09)
5,220 reads
Fastest way to find DB object dependencies
One of the fastest ways to find out objects dependencies in SQL Server.
2015-04-07 (first published: 2013-07-29)
3,302 reads
Search a string in a text with number of occurrences
IF you have a long string and if you want to search a specific input string, and number of timeS the string has occurred then it's helps
2015-04-06 (first published: 2015-03-29)
1,435 reads
Check Existence of Server and find Instance Type
Execute the function and pass only the SQL Server Name to check if the SQL Instance is available and if yes, what is the Instance Type.
2015-04-02 (first published: 2015-03-26)
1,320 reads
Check if SQL Server is running
This script will check if the SQL Server you are connected to is actually running.
2015-04-01 (first published: 2015-03-27)
1,807 reads
Check running SQL Services
Check all the running SQL services in different servers.
You can use the details before you start implementing SQL Patch to the servers i.e. if you want to explicitly stop the SQL Services.
2015-03-31 (first published: 2015-03-26)
2,122 reads
List Table Foreign Keys, Primary key and indexes
This procedure let you list [optional] by table:
-Foreign keys
-Primary key
-Indexes
2015-03-27 (first published: 2014-02-06)
4,050 reads
SP Send Query Result as HTML table using DBMail
Create a stored procedure that will send the result of a query as an html table from the database mail.
2015-03-26 (first published: 2014-02-14)
5,151 reads
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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