Database Mirroring Setup Procedure generator
A script that generates all the commands for installing a new database mirroring between two servers
2015-03-17
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Fastest way to split delimited string in SQL Server
Getting rid of R-BAR to split a delimited string. This method is popular for it's simplicity, speed and zero reads.
2015-03-17 (first published: 2013-07-29)
4,859 reads
Enable Filestream on Instance and database
Enable Filestream on SQL instance and database with database name.
2015-03-16 (first published: 2013-08-12)
1,700 reads
Add user with DDL Trigger
DDL trigger will add a user to a newly created database and assign db_owner role. It can be modified for what role is required.
2015-03-12 (first published: 2013-08-22)
1,655 reads
Script out/store all indexes on a server
This script will store all index definitions into a table that you can use to "re-create" the indexes at a later date.
2015-03-11 (first published: 2013-08-26)
3,018 reads
2015-03-10 (first published: 2015-02-16)
1,442 reads
Get all the Child Tables up to N level
Get all the dependent tables for a master table up to N level(Till the leaf ) you can either find dependency or you can find all the child tables.
2015-03-09 (first published: 2013-09-04)
3,402 reads
List database restore COMPLETION datetime
This script shows the COMPLETION datetime of database restore.
2015-03-06 (first published: 2013-09-04)
1,273 reads
Restore Database with any number of Ndf files
Execute the code after passing database name on which you want to restore and the path where your backup file being located.
e.g exec sp_restoredb N'mydatabase',N'D:\mydatabase.bak'
2015-03-05 (first published: 2013-09-22)
1,909 reads
Find Top 5 executed queries ordered by execution count
I wrote this query that helps us find executed queries with most number of execution counts. The DMV that we have used in this script is sys.dm_exec_query_stats and the function that we have used is sys.dm_exec_sql_text.
2015-03-04 (first published: 2013-09-23)
5,202 reads
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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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