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Rediscovering RANK() – Selecting the TOP N Rows for each Group or Category
There may be times when you need to get the top 10 (or n) rows from each group of your dataset to satisfy a business requirement. There are a few ways this can be done, but none so elegant as when you...
View ArticleSet Parameter Defaults for Stored Procedures
Did you know that you can set defaults for your Stored Procedure parameters? No? Well, it turns out that you can. And it’s pretty straight forward too. To set a default to a stored procedure parameter...
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Refresh Intellisense in SQL Server Management Studio 2008
SQL Server Management Studio 2008 has been around for a little while now, but I still hear loads of people complaining that intellisense does not update often enough (or at all in some cases). This is...
View ArticleT-SQL Script to Identify Space Used By Each Table in a Database
There are often times that I need to do checks on the space used by databases on the server, and in particular, the tables in those databases. This is a script that I quickly put together that will...
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