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RE: Creating a Script from a Stored Procedure

Victor Arquero — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:25:00 GMT

What would be the right Script ID to be used in order to create a script that alters the existing SP Code?

Thanks

RE: Creating a Script from a Stored Procedure

DBA_Rob — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:39:00 GMT

I came across this article while looking for a size limit on the sp_OAMethod output vaiable. It turns out that the 255 character limit that Ryan had in this article has been increased to at least 4000 bytes. See link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325492.

The answer to the prior to posts (which I realize are old, but again in case some else comes to this article) are:

1) The sp_OA% procedures are in the master database and are not granted execute to anyone other that master dbo (basically sysadmin). You would either need to grant execute to these procedures to a user or role and add the user to master (or you could use public), or create the calling procedure (Ryan's proc) in master and just grant access to this calling procedure and the permissions should then inherit correctly since it is all within a single DB.

2) The reason you would do something like this in a procedure rather than copy/paste from a query window is if you were executing this as a batch job and not interactively.

RE: Creating a Script from a Stored Procedure

Richard Haber — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:40:00 GMT

Thanks for the detailied method. I am constantly creating scripts from existing stored procs, but have always opened the proc in Query Analyzer and simply cut and pasted into a text document, or saved the query as a new file.

I'm curious as to when the need for this would arise.

Thanks

RE: Creating a Script from a Stored Procedure

kokyan — Tue, 04 May 2004 18:55:00 GMT

Very good content. Help me a lot especially in debugging and printing reports directly from store procedures.

One question. Is the method sp_OAXXXXX create security issues, such as the person need certain special rights, such as belongs to sysAdmin?

RE: Creating a Script from a Stored Procedure

AndreQ — Thu, 01 May 2003 10:06:00 GMT

This is probably just a button for me, but I'd like Ryan to stay away from single letter variables. 'i' and 'q' don't tell me that much. Even if he uses iSuccess, it would be of help.Handy content, though.

Creating a Script from a Stored Procedure

RyanRandall — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT

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