Get Information on Current Traces Running
This is just a quick informational query to save as a snippet to get some quick information on running traces,...
2014-12-02
939 reads
Sheldon Hull
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Eliminate Overlapping Dates
I was looking for an efficient way to eliminate overlapping days when provided with a historical table that provided events...
2014-10-16
973 reads
Generate Random Date With Starting Point
If you want to create sample random samples when dealing with date calculations to test your results, you can easily...
2014-08-12
517 reads
Snippet Alert: Useful dates (eom, bom, etc)
Common date values you may need to reference that you may not want to write from scratch each time.
Hope...
2014-08-12
1,050 reads
Finding Groups - Consecutive Months
A step by step explanation on one way to get a consecutive period of months, which could easily be adapted...
2014-05-19
652 reads
Scalar functions can be the hidden boogie man
Ran across a comment the other day that scalar functions prohibit parallelism for a query when included. I thought it...
2014-02-11
853 reads
Renaming all references inside stored procedures and functions can be migraine worthy without a little help…
If you run across migrating or copying a database structure for some purpose, yet need to change the database references...
2013-08-13
1,933 reads
Shortcut to reference examples, syntax, and definitions straight from SSMS
I’ve never really used the F1 key for help files with most applications. I was surprised at the usefulness in...
2013-07-24
864 reads
Check Constraints can help enforce the all or nothing approach when it comes to column updates
If you have a set of columns inside your table that you want to allow nulls in, however if one...
2013-07-18
1,231 reads
SSMS 2012 Extender for the times you want some organization to the random pile of objects gathering in the dusty confines of that database
When dealing with large amounts of objects in a database, navigation can be tedious with SSMS object explorer. This extender...
2013-07-16
737 reads
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Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( N'City':N'Denver' RETURNING JSON) GOSee possible answers