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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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UDF For Extracting Actual Time From Two DateTime

Hi guys,       I have created a script of User-Defined-Function to extract the calulated time from two given datetime inputs. But you have to pass THREE parameters like :-a)Start Datetimeb)End Datetimec)To display the format either in HH:MM:SS or HH.MM , we    use 'T'(HH:MM:SS) OR 'N'(HH.MM).   Please feel FREE to E-mail me at […]

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2004-01-14

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XSD Generator

This script will generate a stored procedure named procCreateXSD. Run this script to create the SP.The purpose of this SP is to generate the XSD from selected tables we passed to the script. It accepts the Dataset name, URI, and the list of the tables to be included.For example:exec proccreateXSD 'NorthwindDataset', 'http://www.tempuri.org/', 'Customers,Orders,Products'Be aware that […]

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2004-01-08

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Find Overlapping Jobs

Script lists all overlapping jobs that ran on selected server within last @Hoursback hours.Basically, idea behind this is to find jobs that are running at the same time, because that might significantly slow down server, especially if you have jobs that are running during business hours. You can do the same by looking into Jobs […]

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2004-01-02

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GRANT EXEC or SELECT to sprocs, UDFs and views

Based on moffan76's script to GRANT EXEC to all sprocs and UDFs (that EXEC) and GRANT SELECT to views and UDFs (that SELECT).  This script uses that same general technique of selecting the object names from sysobjects, but does it in one step w/o using a cursor.  It is also not wrapped in a sproc […]

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2003-12-30

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Monthly SQL Server Agent Jobs report

Monthly SQL Server Agent Jobs report Script               Monthly SQL Server Agent Jobs report. It will give a summarized picture of SQL Agent jobs run during a calendar month. You can use it to file up reports for system audit. It does not handle jobs that are run more than […]

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2003-12-30

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BIT_COUNT() IV

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count('A')
What is returned?

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