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Stored Procedure Call Hierarchy

Easily extractss the complete stored procedure call hierarchy from "sysdepends" table of SQL Server and represent it in a pseudo-graphical tree-view.The script uses a temporary table (automatically created/dropped) to hold children and parents of relationships. For representing the call hierarchy the table contains a level field (depth) and a field containing the "enumerated path" (using […]

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Database structure queries

Gets most important information of database structure. This includes all user tables, their fields, datatypes, defaults (including default constraint names), etc, primary keys and their fields, unique constraints and their fields, check constraints (including their conditions), foreign key constraints and their fields aswell as any other indexes and their fields. Should be quite useful for […]

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