2012-12-20 (first published: 2012-12-04)
1,723 reads
Scripts
Update Trigger to Store Only Updated Column and Former Value
History table needs individual rows for each column that has been updated, i.e., a column history.
2012-12-17 (first published: 2012-12-04)
1,187 reads
2012-12-14 (first published: 2012-11-27)
1,924 reads
Report Server Report Usage
Get information about how often, how fast your reports run and how big they are.
2012-12-12 (first published: 2012-11-27)
1,650 reads
Find Single use plans in Plan Cache
This script will return all the Adhoc Single use Plans currently in your Plan Cache.
It also excludes Plan Shells created from auto/forced parameterization. Works for 2005/2008
2012-12-11 (first published: 2012-11-26)
839 reads
2012-12-07 (first published: 2012-11-19)
1,391 reads
Get Scheduled Jobs from Multiple Servers
Script to loop thru multiple linked server and get agent scheduled jobs for the next XX hours.
2012-12-06 (first published: 2012-11-16)
925 reads
2012-12-03 (first published: 2012-11-07)
2,045 reads
2012-11-30 (first published: 2012-11-03)
1,102 reads
Print Text Month Calendar
This function return the text format of a month calendar. It could be useful for sending through emails when you do do not have other tools, but T-SQL to send text emails.
2012-11-29 (first published: 2012-10-31)
1,962 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers