The Ultimate Foreign Key Researcher
Searches for actual and potential foreign key columns for a given primary key reference.
2009-10-12 (first published: 2008-06-20)
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2009-10-09 (first published: 2009-09-29)
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The Ultimate Precompiled Procedure Searcher
Searches precompiled procedures for the provided search string, optionally limiting to names matching a 2nd search string.
2009-10-08 (first published: 2008-06-20)
1,907 reads
The Ultimate Object Searcher
Searches for objects (including CLR) who's names contain the search string. outputs IDs, names, and types of the object and its parent.
2009-10-06 (first published: 2009-09-22)
1,199 reads
2009-10-05 (first published: 2009-09-21)
2,250 reads
The Ultimate PK-Less / CLIDX-Less Table Finder
Lists Schema/Object of tables that are missing a Primary Key or Clustered Index, along with aggregate data for size, rows, indexes, and columns.
2009-10-02 (first published: 2008-11-05)
1,141 reads
BCP command to export data to excel with column headers
This script export data into excel/CSV file using BCP comnand with column headers
2009-10-01 (first published: 2009-09-22)
3,574 reads
Execute SQL Scripts in paralel for real performance tests
Ever tried to simulate a production environment in a development one but realized that you couldn't easily start 500 executions simultaneously ? This script will help you out.
2009-09-30 (first published: 2009-09-16)
2,070 reads
2009-09-29 (first published: 2009-09-17)
924 reads
Runaway Job Management
Be alerted or take custom actions when specified jobs are in the "Running" state for a length of time.
2009-09-25 (first published: 2009-09-15)
907 reads
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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