Comparing Stored Procedures, Part 5
Fifth in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
2009-04-03 (first published: 2009-02-23)
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Scripts
Return User Roles
A stored procedure that will return the roles assigned to a user. Can be called from software to validate a user set up with Windows Authentication.
2009-03-25 (first published: 2009-02-19)
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Determine Users with Permission on an Object
This script will walk the hierarchical chain of users and roles to find users with permissions on an object.
2009-03-24 (first published: 2009-02-18)
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2009-03-23 (first published: 2009-02-17)
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2009-03-19 (first published: 2009-02-17)
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DROP all stored procedures
This code will drop all stored procedures made with splog. With minor modification it will also drop all functions and sp not made with splog.
2009-03-13 (first published: 2009-02-12)
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2009-03-11 (first published: 2009-02-13)
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Procedure Class Generator
Dynamically creates a VB.NET class from parameters in a SQL Stored procedure.
2009-03-09 (first published: 2009-02-16)
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Backup on the fly based on previous backups
This script uses the system backup history to run a differential backup and place it in the directory of the last full backup.
2009-03-06 (first published: 2009-02-12)
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2009-03-04 (first published: 2009-02-16)
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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