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Locate missing columns across entire server

This script will help you locate columns that you provide in a comma delimited format.  You pass it as few or as many columns as you want in the following format: ',,....' and this will generate you a report that states which database, and table each column you passed is in. 

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2004-08-13 (first published: )

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Foreign Key DDL wizard

This script can be run when you want to do batch processing on a database, such as a dynamic truncate statement for all tables in your database.  This script will actually script all the Foreign Keys in your database, and then store them into a table called FOREIGN_KEY_TEMP.  It will then generate, and execute, all […]

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2004-01-22

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Generate all database foreign keys

This script will create another script that has all foreign key DDL that exists in a given database.   You only have to run this, and then select the results of this script and paste it into another query window, or if for some reason you have lost your DDL this will enable you to retrieve […]

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2003-11-12

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Restoring On Top I

I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?

USE Master
BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak'
GO

USE DNRTest
GO
CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT)
GO
USE master
RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACE

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