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SP_HELPTEXT Modified for XML

This is the standard sp_helptext from SQL Server 2000 modified slightly to return the object definition as an XML document.The document is structured in the following format:I admit it was not a lot of work since I merely modified the final SELECT statement from Microsoft's own procedure, but I still find this very useful.The only […]

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2003-09-26

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