Find botched constraints, idxs, fks
Shows awesome view of columns with constraints and indexes and foreign keys to spot errors fast.
2010-08-04 (first published: 2009-12-03)
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Scripts
2010-07-27 (first published: 2010-07-09)
2,166 reads
Custom Logging in a transaction
Ever happened that your custom log got rolled back and you were left with nothing but an error_message()?
Try to log into a table variable.
2010-07-22 (first published: 2010-06-30)
1,155 reads
2010-07-20 (first published: 2010-06-23)
2,583 reads
2010-07-19 (first published: 2009-11-16)
2,553 reads
2010-07-15 (first published: 2010-06-16)
1,913 reads
Parsing / breaking character separated values in a table in one query
At times, we have situation to parse the character separated string in the table column.
2010-07-14 (first published: 2010-06-17)
2,212 reads
2010-07-08 (first published: 2010-06-17)
1,440 reads
Get concatenated value for a column without cursor
This script provides comma separated values of one column for each value of another column. It provides it in SQL 2005 without using cursor.
2010-07-06 (first published: 2010-06-14)
2,301 reads
How to output datafiles location using sp_helpdb?
This is a quick way of outputting the location of your database files/dbsize/date created on your instance.
2010-07-02 (first published: 2010-06-06)
1,373 reads
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Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers