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I haven't posted for a while because I have been working on SQL Admin Hacks, Tips and Tricks lately. it is still a work in progress but below is what is on the wiki currently. It is not yet categorized but we will do that once we get more of these hacks done. To see what it will look like when it is done take a look at the SQL Server Programming Hacks
Can you think of any admin stuff you would like to see? This is what we have right now
Find Primary Keys and Columns Used in SQL Server
Get The Domain Name Of Your SQL Server Machine With T-SQL
Grant Execute/SELECT Permissions For All User Defined Functions To A User
Grant Execute Permissions For All Stored Procedures To A User
Kill All Active Connections To A Database
SQL Server 2008: When Was The Server Last Started?
Check If Auto Update Statistics Is Enabled By Using DATABASEPROPERTY
Three Way To List All Databases On Your Server
Generate A List Of Object Types By Using OBJECTPROPERTY
How to find all the tables and views in a database
Find Out Server Roles For a SQL Server Login
Which Service Pack Is Installed On My SQL Server
Test SQL Server Login Permissions With SETUSER
Login failed for user 'sa'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. SQL 2000
Login failed for user 'sa'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. SQL 2005
Compare Tables With Tablediff
Find All Tables Without Triggers In SQL Server
Find All Tables With Triggers In SQL Server
Create Stored Procedures That Run At SQL Server Startup
Cycle The SQL Server Error Log
How to read sql server error messages
Use OBJECT_DEFINITION To Track SQL Server Stored Procedure Changes
SQL Compare Without The Price Tag
How To Get The Database Name For The Current User Process
How To Find Out Which Columns Have Defaults And What Those Default Values Are
Fixing Cannot add, update, or delete a job that originated from an MSX Server Error after renaming a server
Since I am mostly a SQL guy, I wrote a collection of SQL Server hacks. This collection of SQL hacks is available on the Wiki, right now we have 8 sections and between 70 and 80 hacks. Ideally we will have more hacks and we will also have a SQL admin hacks page in the future.
SQL Server Hacks Sections
* 1 NULLS
* 2 Dates
* 3 Sorting, Limiting Ranking, Transposing and Pivoting
* 4 Handy tricks
* 5 Pitfalls
* 6 Query Optimization
* 7 Undocumented but handy
* 8 Usefull Admin stuff For The Developer
Below are direct links to all the hacks on the wiki, you can also get a list of all the hacks on the wiki itself here: SQL Server Programming Hacks
NULLS
- Testing for NULL values
Use COALESCE To Return First Non Null Value
How To Check If Any, ALL Or No Parameters Have A NULL Value
Return first non null value
Return Null If A Value Is A Certain Value
Concatenation with nulls
NOT IN and nulls
Dates
- First and last days of month, quarter, week
Epoch date
Get Datetime Without Time
Date Ranges Without Loops (numbers table)
Calculate birthday in years
Formatting Dates
Calling Stored Procedures With Datetime Parameters
Trouble With ISDATE And Converting To SMALLDATETIME
Sorting, Limiting,Ranking, Transposing and Pivoting
- Return Top N Rows
Dynamic top
Sorting Numbers Stored In A Varchar Column
How To Use ROW_NUMBER() In A WHERE Clause
Row To Column (PIVOT)
Column To Row (UNPIVOT)
Split A String By Using A Number Table
Concatenate Values From Multiple Rows Into One Column
Concatenate Values From Multiple Rows Into One Column Ordered
Rank
Dense rank
Rownumber
Sort certain values last
Returning The Maximum Value For A Row
Handy tricks
- Five ways to return all rows from one table which are not in another table
Order IP Addresses
Data formatting dates
Data formatting SSN
6 Different Ways To Get The Current Identity Value
Use XACT_ABORT to roll back non trapable error transactions
Random Sorting
Sort Values Ascending But NULLS Last
Adding Leading Zeros To Integer Values
How do I format money/decimal data with commas?
Find Out How Many Occurrences Of A Substring Are In A String
Ten SQL Server Functions That You Have Ignored Until Now
Use the *1 trick to do math with two varchar values
Store The Output Of A Stored Procedure In A Table Without Creating A Table
Find all The Rows Where Any Of The Columns Is Null Or Zero Or Both
Three Ways To Display Two Counts From a Table Side By Side
Finding duplicates across columns
Use REPLACE To eliminate unwanted characters
Pitfalls
- Update triggers
Integer math
Identity Values And Triggers
Use XACT_STATE() To Check For Doomed Transactions
Three differences between COALESCE and ISNULL
Non deterministic functions and nullif
Subquery typo with using in
ISNUMERIC Trouble
Case Without Else
Query Optimization
- Case sensitive search
Functions on left side of the operator
Query Optimizations With Dates
Optimization: Set Nocount On
Don’t use arithmetic operators on a column in the where clause
Don’t use * but list the columns
Undocumented but handy
- xp_getnetname
xp_fileexist
xp_dirtree
xp_subdirs
xp_getfiledetails
xp_fixeddrives
Sp_tempdbspace
xp_enumdsn
xp_enumerrorlogs
Some Undocumented DBCC Commands
sp_MSforeachtable
sp_MSforeachDB
Usefull Admin stuff For The Developer
