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Global String Search & Replace In All DB Fields

Stored procedure to search every field in the database for a string literal.  Run the stored procedure in Query analyser, which will output sql statements to do the search.  The output of these searches will be the update sql, which again should be pasted into a query analyser window.  As the stored procedures do not […]

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2004-02-10

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SQL Server Log Reader

This script outputs the data in chronological order from the current SQL Server log.Output columns are: Log Entry Time, Event Source, Log Entry Text. This data matches with the data that can be seen under the SQL Server logs view in Enterprise Manager.The script is stand alone, but could easily be parameterised to work as […]

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2004-02-10

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XTAB - CROSSTAB UTILITY

sp_XTAB (prototype) produces pivoted (crosstab) views/output with a minimum of fuss.No messing with code, just tell XTAB what you want to pivot.Tested to 764 pivoted columns, XTAB can generate up to 63000 characters of dynamic sql. Example (deliberately over-simplified)----------------------updated 27 January 2004Use NorthwindEXEC sp_XTAB 'Northwind','xtEMPL_COUNTRY','Orders','EmployeeID','ShipCountry', '', 'OrderID','COUNT','NULL', '', 'SELECT xtEMPL_COUNTRY.* FROM xtEMPL_COUNTRY' -- Include optional […]

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2004-01-24

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Foreign Key DDL wizard

This script can be run when you want to do batch processing on a database, such as a dynamic truncate statement for all tables in your database.  This script will actually script all the Foreign Keys in your database, and then store them into a table called FOREIGN_KEY_TEMP.  It will then generate, and execute, all […]

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2004-01-22

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Question of the Day

The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User

On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:

CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567'
GO
ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo
GO
I then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox
go
SELECT CURRENT_USER
What is returned?

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