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The script finds occurrences of string(s) in stored procedures, triggers and views. You can use typical boolean logic as described in the script comments. Very useful.  It was found on the companion cd to [Gurus Guide to Transact-SQL] by Henderson.  I left in the original credits.  Excellent procedure.  Some may scoff but I place it […]

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2004-07-15 (first published: )

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CSV Lists of Columns in Different Formats

This script creates comma separated lists of columns in different formats. These lists can be copied and pasted into other T-SQL statements.  The lists are formatted as: a simple list of column names, a list with the column names as declared variables (@ + column name + data type), a list with column names as […]

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2002-12-26

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