2013-07-31 (first published: 2008-07-15)
1,611 reads
Scripts
2013-07-30 (first published: 2013-06-12)
1,530 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)
2,322 reads
2013-07-25 (first published: 2002-03-19)
3,754 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)
1,274 reads
2013-07-22 (first published: 2009-04-30)
3,902 reads
2013-07-19 (first published: 2013-07-01)
660 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)
2,785 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)
2,430 reads
2013-07-10 (first published: 2013-06-19)
1,640 reads
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Question of the Day
Detecting Characters
I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers