Find Deny permissions on database objects
This script allows the DBA to quickly determine if a deny statement is stopping a user from accessing db objects.
2015-01-14 (first published: 2014-12-17)
7,112 reads
Scripts
Verify Login SID and Machine SID
This script is to verify which login accounts have SID values that don’t match the correct SID values defined on the machine or in the domain.
2015-01-12 (first published: 2014-12-24)
1,668 reads
Calculate Temperature - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for temperature.
2015-01-09 (first published: 2014-12-11)
1,035 reads
Find no of records in each table in database (against Clustered Index)
If you want to find TotalPages, Usedpages,datapages,totalspaceMB,UsedSpaceMB,DataSpaceMB then can use this query.
2015-01-08 (first published: 2014-12-26)
1,534 reads
Calculate Angle - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for angle.
2015-01-06 (first published: 2014-12-10)
663 reads
Calculate Area - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for area.
2015-01-02 (first published: 2014-12-10)
700 reads
Calculate Mass/Weight - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for mass.
2015-01-01 (first published: 2014-12-10)
563 reads
Dynamic Script to Generate Backup Script
Use this script to generate BACKUP DATABASE scripts for selective or all databases during Instance or Database migration.
2014-12-31 (first published: 2014-12-10)
1,315 reads
Calculate Energy - Most Advanced UOC
This function is used to calculate the actual unit of conversion for energy.
2014-12-30 (first published: 2014-12-11)
735 reads
All OS version info in one function
Always wanted to know the OS details? This function tells you everything (MSSQL 2008R2 and newer version only)
2014-12-29 (first published: 2014-12-06)
1,584 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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