Report overlapping jobs
This script reports jobs which are running when another job is also running. This could be a reason for performance degradations.
2016-07-29 (first published: 2014-06-21)
2,658 reads
Wilfred van Dijk
2015-09-30 (first published: 2015-09-17)
1,774 reads
2015-02-12 (first published: 2010-03-12)
4,947 reads
All OS version info in one function
Always wanted to know the OS details? This function tells you everything (MSSQL 2008R2 and newer version only)
2014-12-29 (first published: 2014-12-06)
1,532 reads
move tempdb
For maximum performance, tempdb should be placed on a seperate disk. This script does all the work for you, except the restart!
2014-10-13 (first published: 2014-09-09)
1,497 reads
Unique Identifier as Clustered index
This script selects clustered indexes containing only a uniqueidentifier column
2013-10-17 (first published: 2013-10-02)
1,220 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)
966 reads
All SQL Version info in one function
This function returns all the necessary version information in a table.
2012-05-28 (first published: 2012-03-21)
3,160 reads
Convert seconds to a timestring
This script converts a number of seconds (integer) to a time string, format 'hh:mm:ss'
2010-05-05 (first published: 2010-04-28)
1,442 reads
Check status of HEAP tables
This SP reports the status of your heap tables. It gives you an overview of fragmentation, ghost record counts and forwarded record counts. Another reason to create a clustered index!
2010-04-09 (first published: 2010-03-09)
2,171 reads
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Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
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