Common Solutions for T-SQL Problems

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How To Examples of Selected T-SQL Programming Constructs

Data Related Queries
Audit or Bypass Trigger Execution
Create a Comma Delimited List from a Column in a Table
Create and Use A Numbers Table
Control Return Results by Range
Delete All Data From All User Tables In A Database
Find and/or Delete Duplicate Rows in a Table
Find Rows of Data Between Two Dates
Find First Available Timeslot for Scheduling
Find the Missing Parts of a List of Requirements
Increment an AlphaNumeric Value
Use ISNULL() and COALESCE()
Lock a Stored Procedure for Single Use Only
Query an Object Whose Result Set Depends Upon the Lack of Data In Another Object
Pass and Handle a Delimited String similar to handling an Array() of Values
PIVOT Data Using T-SQL
Rank Values in Groups
Search all or partial columns without dynamic SQL
SELECT TOP n by Group
UNPIVOT Data Using T-SQL

Maintenance Queries
Automate Backups in SQL Express
Detach All User Databases
Find Last BackUp Date Of All Databases On Your Server
Find Long Running Agent Jobs
Find the TOP n Longest Running Procedures (or Queries), Ordered by Total Impact on Server
Transfer Logins to Another Server

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How To Troubleshoot and Debug T-SQL Code

Troubleshoot Deadlocking in SQL Server.
Using the SQL Server Profiler.

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Writing Transact-SQL Statements Tutorial

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms365303.aspx
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