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Grant rights easely to a role /user

This simple script shows how to easely grant rights to user objects (tables,stored procedure,user-defined functions) to a role (public in example), in SQL Server 2000.The script can be used to grant rights to a specific NT /sql login account by replacing [public] with the desired name.

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2003-05-16

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Convert String to Title Case

This function will evaluate an input string and convert it to title-case format. It uses the delimchars parameter to determine what are the triggering characters to indicate capitalization of the subsequent character.I am using it in a DTS package to convert data in CAPS to Title/Proper case as I output the data to an Excel […]

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2003-05-15

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How to retrieve roles from a Database

If you have environment where you restrict access to database objects based on user roles and if you have a lot of databases on different servers in the same domain.  The following script can generate roles from a given database in a format that can be used to create roles on different servers where the […]

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2003-05-14

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Script to kill the top blocker and report what it was doing.

This script identifies the blocking locks at the top of the blocking chain and kills them. Specifically, it reports what the top blocking spids are doing, kills them, waits three seconds and then reports on current blocking status.  If you have a situation where single connections are causing a huge blocking chain and you want […]

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2003-05-12

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How to get ColumnNames, datatypes and length

This is a followup to the script submitted by srallapalli. One can return a record set of all tables in a database using the following:USE MyDatabaseSELECT so.name AS TableName, sc.name AS ColumnName,  st.name AS ColumnDatatype,  convert(int, sc.length) AS ColumnLength FROM syscolumns sc, sysobjects so , systypes st WHERE so.type='U' AND OBJECTPROPERTY(so.id,'ismsshipped') = 0 AND sc.id=so.id […]

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2003-05-10

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Generate "CREATE...FOR ATTACH" stmt. dynamically

In instances where you have over 16 data files, or you need to move data files to a new location when you are moving a database you must use a CREATE...FOR ATTACH statement.  This script will generate the CREATE...FOR ATTACH statement dynamically given a database name.  It will take into consideration the file sizes, growths […]

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2003-05-07

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Too Many Choices

I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:

BrandID OfficialName
1       Samsung
2       Apple
3       Microsoft
4       Adidas
5       Coca-Cola
I run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel')
FROM dbo.MasterBrands;

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