What are your five most common T-SQL commands

  • Great thread, Grant.

    For some very common tasks (who is doing what, table sizes in a database, which modules contain this text) I have some custom procedures I wrote and use very frequently.

    Seems like I use this pair at least once a day:

    SET STATISTICS IO, TIME ON;

    SET STATISTICS IO, TIME OFF;

    Lately, I've been helping others a lot with optimization. I find myself creating temp tables (to replace CTEs when needed) and implementing window functions (often with LAG/LEAD/FIRST_VALUE/LAST_VALUE).

    I use this to check if some of the statistics need updating. Extra criteria is sometimes added in the WHERE clause if we only want to check one table or just a few.

    SELECT

    SchemaName = s.name

    , ObjectName = o.name

    , StatName = st.name

    , IsIndex = IIF(i.index_id is null, 0, 1)

    , StatsDate = STATS_DATE(st.object_id, st.stats_id)

    FROM sys.stats st

    INNER JOIN sys.objects o

    ON o.object_id = st.object_id

    INNER JOIN sys.schemas s

    ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id

    LEFT JOIN sys.indexes i

    ON i.object_id = st.object_id

    AND i.index_id = st.stats_id

    AND i.name = st.name

    WHERE o.is_ms_shipped = 0

    ORDER BY StatsDate, SchemaName, ObjectName, StatName

    ;

    And then, if statistics do need updating, ...

    UPDATE STATISTICS ...;

  • 1)

    SELECT

    2)

    CREATE VIEW

    3)

    CREATE PROCEDURE

    4)

    CTE

    5)

    Checking index fragmentation query (adding a lot of new indexes and rebuilding existing lately for a new rebuild.)

  • I probably should have followed up. I wrote up the article from this data. It's here at Simple-Talk.[/url]

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    - Theodore Roosevelt

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    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • 1. Inserting records in a table

    2. Viewing all records from a table.

    3. Viewing only selected records from a table

    4. Deleting records from a table

    5. Changing data in existing records in a table

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