Copies the permissions from an existing database user to a new database user.Usage:exec copy_permissions_for_database 'From_User', 'To_User'* From_User must exist in the database.* To_User must not exist in the database.* To_User must exist as a login on the server.I used http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/sqlpermissionspublicrole_2.asp as a starting point.
2003-04-14
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Here's a real-life challenge I was faced with at work: my company (a talent agency) needed me to create a report listing all of our actors that we represent - and for each actor, a comma-delimited string of each production that they've starred in. Simple enough, right......except that, within the comma-delimited list of productions, they […]
2003-04-11
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This is a follow-on to info's script to strip the time portion of a datetime or smalldatetime, leaving only the date. I found info's script interesting! When I had to do this I converted the date to varchar and back again instead of to float. Seems to work fine for me.
2003-04-03
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User Defined function to parse a string with known delimiters and return back the substing in the position.Takes string,delimiter and position as parameters. Can be used directly in TSQL code.
2003-03-27
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Brian Knight recently had the basic need to retrieve a record from the database at random. What seemed to be an easy task quickly became a complex one. This case showed an interesting quirk with T-SQL that was resolved in an equally quirky way. This quick article shows you a method to retrieve random data or randomize the display of data.
2003-03-26
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Each week you are required to run various reports based on table entries made during the week preceding latest Sunday. Use this SQL7/2000 procedure (can be a UDF in SQL2K) to retrieve the latest midnight of a specified day of the week as illustrated below: Declare @StartDate datetime, @EndDate datetime Exec DBAservice.dbo.uspGetLatestWkDayMidnight @pDate = '1998-05-06', […]
2003-03-13
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Do you hate using bitwise operands? I do, a lot. I wrote the following function to try to minimize the need for using them. When testing 'status' variables in the 'sysobjects' table, for example, I decided there just had to be an easier way to see if bit 31 is set than asking if STATUS […]
2003-03-07
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You can use this procedure to find any word or sentance, which u used in procedures, views, triggers and function. This procedure is basically a modified form of system procedure "sp_helptext". Now its upto you to use that and modified that. To execute the procedure, first create it in your Database and then execute it […]
2003-02-24
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This is a little script I wrote before I saw Steve Jones write up on Tame Those Strings Part 7. This is a slightly diffent approach. It will take a string up to 255 chars and case every word first letter upper and the rest of the word lower. This ain't the best way but […]
2003-02-20
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Ever wanted to know how to reuse identity values after they're deleted? In this example by Dinesh, he shows you two methods to reuse the wholes in identity rows.
2003-02-18
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In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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