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Search for an expression in the body of programmable objects

Sometimes you want to modify an object (like a stored procedure, Function, trigger and view) and you can not remember the name of that object, but you remember some words of the comments that you placed in the body of that object. If this is your case, you can use the following procedures depending on […]

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2006-11-30 (first published: )

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Remove Exec Permissions To Extended Stored Procs

I created this script to simplify the process of restricting access to high risk extended stored procedures. It will find any user or role which has execute permissions on any of the stored procedures in the "#High_Risk_Stored_Procs" temp table and will generate the relevant revoke statements to remove those permissions.The current list of stored procedures […]

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2006-11-27 (first published: )

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(Dutch) Elfproef in T-SQL UDF

In The Netherlands we use bankaccountnumbers that need to comply to a test call 'elfproef'. This test evaluates the sum of each number multiplied by the position the number appears in the accountnumber. If the modulos of the sum divided by 11 is zero then the accountnumber is valid. The length of a bankaccountnumber in […]

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2006-11-20 (first published: )

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