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)
3,311 reads
Scripts
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)
1,444 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)
1,350 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)
1,821 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)
2,137 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)
4,086 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)
5,175 reads
2015-03-25 (first published: 2014-02-25)
8,466 reads
Calendar Table by Interval Minutes
Populate a calendar table with user set interval start and end datetime values.
2015-03-24 (first published: 2014-02-21)
2,482 reads
Database Mirroring Setup Procedure generator
A script that generates all the commands for installing a new database mirroring between two servers
2015-03-20 (first published: 2015-03-17)
956 reads
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Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers