Execute T-SQL Scripts in Parallel
Transact-SQL does not have a simple method to launch multiple parallel running scripts. This tool will change the game. It requires SQL Server 2005 or above.
2013-08-13 (first published: 2009-08-28)
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Scripts
usp_tableReference
Use this script to find the Stored Procedures which are referencing the table passed as argument from all databases on the server.
2013-08-12 (first published: 2013-08-02)
1,147 reads
Dynamically Drop a User From Your SQL Instance
Dynamically drop a user from each database on an SQL instance by their server login SID, then remove there server login as well. Plus some helpful printable information when ran.
2013-08-09 (first published: 2013-07-16)
928 reads
Simplest way to search any string in db objects
Easiest way to search for a string in any object within the database.
2013-08-08 (first published: 2013-07-29)
2,328 reads
Display the number of days since last Database backup.
A simple T-SQL script to display the number of days since the last database backup.
2013-08-07 (first published: 2013-07-29)
1,674 reads
2013-07-31 (first published: 2008-07-15)
1,634 reads
2013-07-30 (first published: 2013-06-12)
1,540 reads
The Ultimate Index Width Stats Reporter
Reports index length stats for indexes who's lengths exceeding parametrized thresholds (defaults to 0 - get all) for total length and seek length, optionally filtering schemas and tables.
2013-07-26 (first published: 2009-01-16)
2,370 reads
2013-07-25 (first published: 2002-03-19)
3,773 reads
Find unused jobs
Job list cluttered?
This script will return a list of jobs that either have not run in X months or where the next schedule run date is older than today.
2013-07-24 (first published: 2013-06-25)
1,283 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
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Forums
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers