Trim Left Char (for single words)
Remove the first replications of a specified char in a word. It does not work well with text that contains blank spaces in the middle.
2012-08-16 (first published: 2012-08-02)
954 reads
Scripts
Script to get an ordered list of all stored procedures with parameters
Generate a per-schema, per-procedure ordered list of all stored procedures for the current database, together with their parameters, datatypes and nullability.
2012-08-14 (first published: 2012-08-08)
2,246 reads
List of objects from particular schemas
This helps to get list of all objects in a particular schemas.
2012-08-13 (first published: 2012-08-08)
1,153 reads
2012-08-13 (first published: 2012-07-31)
1,789 reads
2008 Index Rebuild using DMV
Index Maintenance procedure with HTML Reporting capabilities. Please refer to attached script for detailed information.
2012-08-09 (first published: 2012-07-26)
1,657 reads
Calculate alphabetic sequence
This simple function allows to calculate a code sequence of letters. AAA, AAB, AAAC, ADF, .... AAZ, ABA, ABC, ... ZZZ
2012-08-08 (first published: 2012-07-25)
955 reads
2012-08-03 (first published: 2008-01-09)
2,319 reads
2012-08-01 (first published: 2008-02-15)
3,210 reads
2005 Online Index Rebuild using DMV
Identifies indexes with average logical fragmentation >= 30% using the DM available in MSSQL 2005. Please refer to script for more information.
2012-07-31 (first published: 2007-10-09)
4,374 reads
2012-07-25 (first published: 2012-07-12)
2,514 reads
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers