Aggregrating varchar columns
Concatenate columns grouping on Index column (approach for summing varchar columns by grouping on index)
2016-05-12 (first published: 2009-09-13)
1,559 reads
Scripts
sp_spaceused rewritten as one query (no cursors)
Query that simulates running sp_spaceused on every applicable object in a database and gathering it all into a single result set.
2016-05-10 (first published: 2013-06-03)
2,282 reads
Agent Job Schedule Description
Yet another schedule description query with added grammatical improvements.
2016-05-06 (first published: 2016-04-20)
859 reads
Get Space on SQL hardrive
I was recently asked to monitor the Database size on the SQL server, and display the results in a report.
2016-05-05 (first published: 2016-04-16)
806 reads
DBCC CHECKDB to a table
An enhanced version of a script originally posted by Robert Pearl some time ago. It now takes into account changes in the tabelresults for CHECKDB in latter versions of SQL Server.
2016-05-04 (first published: 2016-04-20)
1,266 reads
Brute Force data search tool
searches entire db for a string, number, or date, returns list of results
2016-05-02 (first published: 2016-04-20)
1,254 reads
SQL server Agent - Status
As part of the application to monitor SQL health I created.
The procedure returns status of the SQL server Agent
2016-04-29 (first published: 2016-04-16)
618 reads
2016-04-28 (first published: 2016-04-07)
505 reads
Calculate Age (in years)
An inline table valued function (iTVF) that can be used to calculate age in years.
2016-04-27 (first published: 2016-04-06)
1,071 reads
Format Date Time Function
Function do return common datatime formats of a date.
select dbo.[KDT_FN_FORMATDATETIME]('LASTDAY DDDD',getdate())
2016-04-26 (first published: 2016-03-29)
1,643 reads
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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