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Scripting extended properties

I use these to manage the addition and removal of extended properties on all tables and columns in my company's dbs.Rather than writing complicated joins or calling functions every time, I use views on sysobjects and INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables. I tried to make these scripts as flexible as possible so you can reuse them in procedures, […]

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2006-01-05 (first published: )

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List user's permissions

With this script you can see the permissions that every user-defined role and every user without a dbrole has.The list could get very large and hard to manage, but it helped me to build the roles of an app that didn't had any role defined.Hope it'll be usefull to someone

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2006-01-02 (first published: )

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Change column collations back to database default

This script will create a single-line ALTER TABLE statement for each column in any table to change the collation to match the 'database default'. This is best accomplished in the Query Analyzer -- simply run the script, select all the records, and paste them into a new window to run them.

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2005-12-29 (first published: )

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Number of words within a phrase function

Most word count functions/procedures are based on some form of looping methods. If the table is large or there is a need to count the words in a number of columns, this can become quite an exercise. This function, based on a mathematical model, will work much faster and more efficient in counting the words […]

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2005-12-28 (first published: )

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sp_gen_checksum_selects

Compile in master. Set your QA output to text. When run from the db of interest it generates checksum select statements for each user table in the db composed of the PK columns and a checksum for all columns excluding text, ntext, image and sql-variant. There are no parameters. Modify for your own use. Save […]

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2005-12-19 (first published: )

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Script To Compute Checksum Of The Text Field

It is a known fact, that checksum function can not be applied to text, ntext and image fields. But sometimes it is necessary to compare whether a value in a text field has changed (although it is not guaranteed that checksum generates a unique value, but it still could be used as a good estimator). […]

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2005-12-16 (first published: )

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Replace Object Owner

This SP is used to identify and replace the owner of the database objects. This SP will give display object id, object name, owner id, owner name and concatenate object + owner name with brackets. SP does change the owner for the following objects. SP should available in "master" database to execute in more than […]

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2005-12-06 (first published: )

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BIT_COUNT() III

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count(-1)
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