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Free Tools for the SQL Server DBA

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Everyone has a set of handy utilities and tools that they use with their SQL Server, but sometimes convincing an employer to purchase tools is hard. Longtime DBA David Bird brings us a list of the tools he likes to use and are FREE.

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2008-04-10 (first published: )

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Delete constraints - SQL Server 2005

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This script will DELETE ALL constraints within the database that you define and in the following order: Foreign Key, Primary Key and then Unique Key.CAUTION:This script does not print out the ALTER TABLE statements, it drop the constraints immediately, therefore backup your database before testing or using this script. I ran the script below and […]

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2007-09-19 (first published: )

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Career Book Reviews

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Working in the corporate world can be a challenge and most of us muddle through our careers without really having any formal training. Andy Warren has spent time proactively working on his career and learned a great many tips and tricks for succeeeding as an employee and a manager. He brings us a few book reviews that might help you cope with the strange corporate world in which so many of us work.

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2007-05-23

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Display results VERTICALLY in Results window

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DESCRIPTION:This procedure will allow you to display results vertically (down) instead of across the screen. It's great when you are dealing with a query that has 50 columns and just a couple of records. LIMITATIONS: * It will be very slow if you are trying to return a lot of records. Works best for queries […]

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2007-05-23 (first published: )

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Dynamic and Unique field Select creator

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DESCRIPTION:This procedure produces a SELECT statement which explicitly lists all fields for 'tablename' with fieldname and alias as the column name. The SELECT it produces is ready to run or if you need to join several tables just copy the column names off the SELECT it generates. I use this a lot when I create […]

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2007-05-22 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

Creating JSON III

In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:

BeerIDBeerName
1Becks
2Fat Tire
3Mac n Jacks
4Alaskan Amber
8Kirin
I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results?

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