2007-08-23 (first published: 2007-02-06)
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Scripts
Delete Duplicates using CTE
Delete duplicates with a CTE (common table expression).This script uses the same setup as the anonymous post using a cursor (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/viewscript.asp?scriptid=1872).
2007-08-23
1,103 reads
Display disk space stats for each table
Here is my replacement for sp_spaceused, I have altered it so that if no table is past in using the @objname parameter it loops through all the tables which is alot easyer than running the old one for each table and it displays the data one result set. So should be easyer to create a […]
2007-08-23
1,023 reads
2007-08-22 (first published: 2007-02-06)
927 reads
Get Record Count for each table in a database.
I wrote this script to compare record counts between a live database and a restored copy to test backups, I thought people might find it useful. What You need is to just copy the script and run it against your database.
2007-08-21
1,411 reads
Total backup
Simple bugfixes of another script found on this site.- bug 1 - Puntuation (dot) in database names made the script fail.
2007-08-21 (first published: 2007-02-04)
326 reads
Script SQL Server DDL
Scripting SQL Server DDLRichard SutherlandIf you buy into the theory that all database objects should be contained in a source management system such as Visual SourceSafe, and that deployment of database projects should be done from the source management system, then the manner in which Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals [a.k.a., […]
2007-08-20 (first published: 2007-02-03)
1,387 reads
Prioritize Missing Index Recommendations (2005)
To report indexes proposed by the database engine that have highest probable user impact. Note that no consideration is given to 'reasonableness' of indexes-- bytes, overall size, total number of indexes on a table, etc. Intended to provide targeted starting point for holistic evaluation of indexes.
2007-08-17
980 reads
Prioritize Missing Index Recommendations 2 (2005)
This is an enhanced version of my previous script: Prioritize Missing Index Recommendations (2005).To aid in evaluation of whether the recommended index is reasonable, I have added :1. counts for key columns and the total columns of the recommended index 2. the length/bytes for both key and all columns Note this is 'per row', not […]
2007-08-17
1,845 reads
Check if SQL Server version is 2005 or lower
This script shows a simple way to check if the current version of SQL Server is 2005 or lower.It exploits the new server property called 'BuildClrVersion' which is not defined on SQL Server 2000 (and lower) but has just been introduced with 2005.It may be useful to condition the execution of a piece of code […]
2007-08-16 (first published: 2007-01-23)
231 reads
Blogs
Book Review – Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices
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SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups and Kubernetes
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Forums
Azure elastic job issue authenticating to Azure SQL database
Azure elastic agent jobs: I’m getting this error “The server principal “ac1971e9-381b-449b-9e1a-9cc276fc2985@b5313c9d-fb0d-47af-bc87-7c050bffbdc3” is not...
Converting job_id to join to another table.
I need help, please! I have a monitoring table that pulls in information about...
SSMS 20.2 on Windows11 not able to connect to SQL 2005 ??
We still have a couple of dino's. What should I check to re-enable access...
Question of the Day
What's the Ceiling?
What do I get as the results from this code?
SELECT CEILING (999.999), CEILING (-999.999);See possible answers