2011-10-31 (first published: 2011-10-19)
2,274 reads
Scripts
Proc to Rename a file
A simple way to rename a file from within a T-SQL Script, primarily designed to add a date-time stamp. Works in 2000 and 2005.
2011-10-28 (first published: 2008-05-13)
2,967 reads
Find and Replace a String in the Whole Database
Find and Replace a string in all string fields (char, varchar, etc) of all tables in the database.
2011-10-27 (first published: 2008-02-08)
3,455 reads
SQL Server 2005 Index Maintenance
Index maintenance procedure using rebuild or reorganized based on fragementation level.
2011-10-26 (first published: 2008-03-28)
3,489 reads
Generate HTML output for given SQL Query
Many times we need to generate html query for a given SQL query for that we need to use ASP, Java. Now you can use this SP to generate HTML.
2011-10-25 (first published: 2007-10-01)
4,544 reads
Reverse-Engineer Database Permissions (2005 up)
This script reverse engineers SQL statements to recreate database permissions.
2011-10-24 (first published: 2011-10-07)
16,255 reads
Search for a String in all Stored Procedures and beyond?
Search for String Occurence with this script in your stored procedures.
2011-10-20 (first published: 2008-06-08)
5,389 reads
UP_COMPACTA_COPIA
I have several problems with my corporate network and therefore need to do all my backups locally, and to make matters worse, still use SQL Server 2005.
2011-10-17 (first published: 2011-09-30)
437 reads
2011-10-14 (first published: 2011-08-24)
522 reads
Detailed Table Data
Gets Detail table information such as partition information, compression, and partition range.
2011-10-13 (first published: 2011-09-30)
1,236 reads
Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers