This script will generate insert statements for the given tables. You can pass the tables names, separated by commas, into sp_DataAsInsCommand stored procedure as in the example below:EXEC sp_DataAsInsCommand 'employee,titleauthor,pub_info'Updated on 5/25/01 to correct an issue with columns that are short like a column defined as char(1), to correct another issue with the Identity column […]
2005-06-01 (first published: 2005-05-05)
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Stored procedure usp_CheckMissingPermission_for_User checks missing exec permission for given user or group on all the stored procedures within the database. It not only detects missing exec permission, but also generates a scripts for you to fix the problem.
2005-05-30 (first published: 2005-05-09)
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This script generates filegroup listing on a given database for each table within the database. This will be very handy to indentify which table is built on a particular filegroup. This is useful for a VLDB (very large database).
2005-05-27 (first published: 2005-05-09)
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This script is userful in CaseSensitive environment. This will detect a values from a table column which are lower case.
2005-05-26 (first published: 2005-05-09)
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Generating WITH MOVE Statements for restoring backups on a different servers which has different disk layout.
2005-05-25 (first published: 2005-05-09)
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I have the need to backup multiple MS SQL databases and email to a support email address.I have added on an original script to produce a fairly robust db back and email script.You can either email the db or just a notification of backup.Script will also maintain db's for a set length of time before […]
2005-05-20 (first published: 2005-01-26)
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This script uses the DTS object model to create a simple package, execute the package, and properly check for any errors.
2005-05-19 (first published: 2005-04-01)
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Hans asked if it could be faster. This is about 10% faster; not much. His is admittedly more readable, and mine will act very strangely with invalid hex digits.How does it work? I'm converting the string '1234' to the value 0x31323334 (for example), then subtracting '0000' so that it is 0-based in each byte (CONVERT(INT,0x30303030) […]
2005-05-16 (first published: 2005-05-04)
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Based on the script by Paul Delmarche ( http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/1482.asp ).Updated to now include the spid, username, blocked and blocking SQL statements in the email (still logged to table).Schedule the procedure to run at defined intervals (I use 2 minutes)
2005-05-12 (first published: 2005-05-02)
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This script uses the same information sp_spaceused does. It just formats it in a different way.
2005-05-10 (first published: 2005-04-26)
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By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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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