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I was looking a query that tell me a list of view using certain view from a table, and found the answer here.

See the code below. Hope this could help someone somewhere.

select view_name from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEW_COLUMN_USAGE
 where column_name='ColumnNameHere'
 and table_name='TableNameHere'

I got this code snippet from my collegue , hope this can be helpful for others too

declare @dbname nvarchar(255)
set @dbname = 'databasename'
backup log @dbname with truncate_only
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (@dbname, 0)

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SQL statement to update top N records

update daily_sales
set is_calc='Y'
from daily_sales
inner join (select top 100 * from daily_sales where product_category='CA') a
on a.unique_record_id=daily_sales.unique_record_id
and a.milestone_code=daily_sales.milestone_code

Source is SQLServerCentral

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Simple statement to delete record a table with condition from other related table.

delete prod
from excp_amended_daily_sales_deposits prod
inner join excp_amended_daily_sales ds
on ds.id=prod.id
where  ds.status <> 'Active'
and ds.reason_code='51'

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SELECT  SERVERPROPERTY('productversion'),
            SERVERPROPERTY ('productlevel'),
             SERVERPROPERTY ('edition')