Trim Left Char (for single words)
Remove the first replications of a specified char in a word. It does not work well with text that contains blank spaces in the middle.
2012-08-16 (first published: 2012-08-02)
956 reads
Scripts
Script to get an ordered list of all stored procedures with parameters
Generate a per-schema, per-procedure ordered list of all stored procedures for the current database, together with their parameters, datatypes and nullability.
2012-08-14 (first published: 2012-08-08)
2,257 reads
List of objects from particular schemas
This helps to get list of all objects in a particular schemas.
2012-08-13 (first published: 2012-08-08)
1,158 reads
2012-08-13 (first published: 2012-07-31)
1,790 reads
2008 Index Rebuild using DMV
Index Maintenance procedure with HTML Reporting capabilities. Please refer to attached script for detailed information.
2012-08-09 (first published: 2012-07-26)
1,664 reads
Calculate alphabetic sequence
This simple function allows to calculate a code sequence of letters. AAA, AAB, AAAC, ADF, .... AAZ, ABA, ABC, ... ZZZ
2012-08-08 (first published: 2012-07-25)
956 reads
2012-08-03 (first published: 2008-01-09)
2,322 reads
2012-08-01 (first published: 2008-02-15)
3,224 reads
2005 Online Index Rebuild using DMV
Identifies indexes with average logical fragmentation >= 30% using the DM available in MSSQL 2005. Please refer to script for more information.
2012-07-31 (first published: 2007-10-09)
4,376 reads
2012-07-25 (first published: 2012-07-12)
2,520 reads
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers