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)
1,560 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)
860 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)
807 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)
1,269 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)
1,257 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)
619 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)
1,073 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)
1,648 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Fun with JSON I
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers