Some internal SQL Sever Queries

The following query uses the sys.objects catalog view to return all database objects that have been modified in the last 10 days.

SELECT name AS object_name 
  ,SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name
  ,type_desc
  ,create_date
  ,modify_date
FROM sys.objects
WHERE modify_date > GETDATE() - 10
ORDER BY modify_date;

The following example queries the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS view to return all columns for the Contact table in the AdventureWorks database.

SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, COLUMNPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(TABLE_SCHEMA + '.' + TABLE_NAME), 
COLUMN_NAME, 'ColumnID') AS COLUMN_ID
FROM AdventureWorks.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'Contact';

This Query returns the owner of each object in a schema.

Before you run the following query, replace all occurences of <database_name> and <schema_name> with valid names.

SELECT 'OBJECT' AS entity_type
    ,USER_NAME(OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id, 'OwnerId')) AS owner_name
    ,name 
FROM sys.objects WHERE SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) = '<schema_name>'
UNION 
SELECT 'TYPE' AS entity_type
    ,USER_NAME(TYPEPROPERTY(SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) + '.' + name, 'OwnerId')) AS owner_name
    ,name 
FROM sys.types WHERE SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) = '<schema_name>' 
UNION
SELECT 'XML SCHEMA COLLECTION' AS entity_type 
    ,COALESCE(USER_NAME(xsc.principal_id),USER_NAME(s.principal_id)) AS owner_name
    ,xsc.name 
FROM sys.xml_schema_collections AS xsc JOIN sys.schemas AS s
    ON s.schema_id = xsc.schema_id
WHERE s.name = '<schema_name>';

This query can be used to get record count of all tables in the current database.

SELECT 
T.TABLE_NAME AS [TABLE NAME], MAX(I.ROWS) AS [RECORD COUNT]
FROM SYSINDEXES I, INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES T
WHERE T.TABLE_NAME = OBJECT_NAME(I.ID)
      AND T.TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
GROUP BY T.TABLE_SCHEMA, T.TABLE_NAME

This query can be used to List all tables/views with columns.

SELECT *
FROM     INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
ORDER BY TABLE_SCHEMA,
         TABLE_NAME,
         ORDINAL_POSITION
GO