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Fourth in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
2013-10-31 (first published: 2009-02-17)
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Insert Commas Into Number String
Function to take a number as a string and return it with commas separating thousands, millions, etc.
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Identify Unique Columns
Tool to automatically query combinations of columns in your table to determine candidate for unique key.
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2012-03-26 (first published: 2008-01-23)
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Generate INSERT for table with IDENTITY column
Generate a "INSERT INTO...SELECT FROM" script for a table with an identity column.
2012-03-09 (first published: 2008-01-07)
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2011-09-20 (first published: 2008-01-11)
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Comparing Stored Procedures, Part 3
Third in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
2011-03-30 (first published: 2009-02-16)
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Comparing Stored Procedures, Part 2
Second in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
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2011-03-28 (first published: 2009-02-06)
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Comparing Stored Procedures, Part 6
Sixth in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
2009-04-15 (first published: 2009-02-26)
1,410 reads
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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