Right or Wrong, Dynamic SQL AND a Cursor
I'm no big fan of dynamic SQL or cursors, however there are times where they do the job.
2013-11-08 (first published: 2013-10-29)
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I'm no big fan of dynamic SQL or cursors, however there are times where they do the job.
2013-11-08 (first published: 2013-10-29)
1,851 reads
This script converts a numeric column index to an Excel column name (ex: AC)
2013-11-07 (first published: 2013-10-23)
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A set of queries which attempt to gather as much security-related information on a server instance as possible.
2013-11-05 (first published: 2013-10-24)
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This query gives you an idea of the growth of your database over time.
2013-11-01 (first published: 2008-03-10)
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Fourth in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
2013-10-31 (first published: 2009-02-17)
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This script pivots 1 to N numeric columns, grouping by 1 to N (N)(Var)char columns, pivoting by distinct date.
2013-10-30 (first published: 2013-10-15)
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This will sum all of the records of a specified database, excluding the 'sysdiagrams' table.
2013-10-23 (first published: 2007-12-17)
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2013-10-22 (first published: 2007-10-10)
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I have used the following function to convert dates according to desired textual formats that were not immediately available in the standard styles on offer.
2013-10-18 (first published: 2013-10-01)
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This script selects clustered indexes containing only a uniqueidentifier column
2013-10-17 (first published: 2013-10-02)
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A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Adding new column with DEFAULT
I've got a web application for my side business. I've added a SQL Server...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers