Shrink all databases
Procedure changes all databases' recovery mode to simple and shrinks them all (or at least it tries to).
2012-03-07 (first published: 2008-01-14)
3,945 reads
Rafal Skotak
Select from stored procedure
This terse script shows an easy (but "dirty" - so not advisable for production environments - rather for personal use) way to select data from stored procedure.
2011-12-14 (first published: 2008-03-04)
4,214 reads
Clear database - delete all records from a database (updated)
The procedure below deletes all records from the specified database's(except master, model, msdb and tempdb) tables (except those from the schema 'sys').
2011-12-09 (first published: 2008-01-31)
4,245 reads
Generating number sequences with Common Table Expressions
The script shows one of ways generating number sequence - this one uses CTE.
2011-10-04 (first published: 2008-02-06)
1,989 reads
Row count and space used for all tables in database (update)
This procedure works like the sp_spaceused procedure but this one shows statistics for all tables in the selected database or for all databases (excluding tempdb and model).
2011-05-25 (first published: 2008-03-05)
10,207 reads
Search for a text in all databases
This procedure searches for a specified text in all (or one selected) databases in all (or selected) tables.
2011-03-02 (first published: 2008-01-25)
5,110 reads
2011-03-01 (first published: 2011-02-18)
4,060 reads
Compare databases structure
This procedure is supposed to compare structure (tables, procedures, triggers, foraign keys etc.) of two specified databases.
2008-10-27 (first published: 2008-08-19)
3,097 reads
Show all database's tables' columns' collations.
Created view displays all text columns' collations in the current database with the information whether
the collation is different from the database's one.
2008-04-04 (first published: 2008-01-22)
1,804 reads
Generating combinations 'm elements from n-element set'
This procedure generates a dataset with combinations of elements_to_select taken from number_of_values element set. It prints also the prepared query.
2008-04-01 (first published: 2008-01-21)
1,283 reads
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The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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