2013-07-22 (first published: 2009-04-30)
3,910 reads
Scripts
2013-07-19 (first published: 2013-07-01)
671 reads
Quick view of User database and server roles
Outputs an easily readable result of the database and server roles for database principals.
2013-07-18 (first published: 2013-06-14)
1,085 reads
The Automated DBA: Space Usage Snapshotter (sysadmin; central DB)
Records snapshots of space usage & buffer cache usage stats by partition, index, table, schema, filegroup, & database. Stats incl Reserved, Used, Data, buffer cache for row, lob, & overflow.
2013-07-17 (first published: 2009-05-30)
2,824 reads
Simple and efficient way to split string with seperator
Split a string with separator without looping. Can be efficiently used with joins if necessary.
2013-07-12 (first published: 2013-06-15)
2,470 reads
2013-07-10 (first published: 2013-06-19)
1,679 reads
usp_addcolumns
This is a stored procedure to add a columns to multiple tables, if column doesn't exist
2013-07-09 (first published: 2008-05-27)
993 reads
Changing database mail account SMTP servers
This will generate a script that drops and recreates existing db mail accounts and change the smpt server.
2013-07-08 (first published: 2013-06-19)
845 reads
2013-07-03 (first published: 2013-06-07)
927 reads
Free space for all database files
I wrote this script to help determine which data files are taking up space on an instance.
2013-07-02 (first published: 2013-06-05)
1,628 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
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Using CHOOSE()
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers