2008-05-15 (first published: 2008-02-29)
3,354 reads
Scripts
SQL 2005 - List value of 'Not For Replication'
Script will list all identity columns with valus of 'Not for Replication'
2008-05-13 (first published: 2008-03-20)
750 reads
Import/Export SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager Registered Servers
Exports and imports SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager groups and server registrations using Powershell.
2008-05-08 (first published: 2008-02-15)
2,623 reads
Script permissions on all databases
i took the core from a script found in the site for generating permissions and update it.
2008-05-06 (first published: 2008-03-06)
3,576 reads
space check
When run it will check the space left on the disk. If it was under 4GB it will raiserror.
2008-05-05 (first published: 2008-03-04)
1,449 reads
2008-05-01 (first published: 2008-03-06)
2,238 reads
Calendar Display with Language Specific Day/Month names
A stored procedure which takes a year and language as parameters and creates a calendar display for these parameters.
2008-04-25 (first published: 2008-03-04)
1,028 reads
2008-04-24 (first published: 2008-02-28)
1,863 reads
2008-04-22 (first published: 2008-02-28)
1,687 reads
2008-04-18 (first published: 2008-02-22)
3,877 reads
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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