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Copy Permissions for a database

Copies the permissions from an existing database user to a new database user.Usage:exec copy_permissions_for_database 'From_User', 'To_User'* From_User must exist in the database.* To_User must not exist in the database.* To_User must exist as a login on the server.I used http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/sqlpermissionspublicrole_2.asp as a starting point.

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2003-04-14

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Dynamically Generating HTML Tags from T-SQL

Here's a real-life challenge I was faced with at work: my company (a talent agency) needed me to create a report listing all of our actors that we represent - and for each actor, a comma-delimited string of each production that they've starred in.  Simple enough, right......except that, within the comma-delimited list of productions, they […]

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2003-04-11

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Script tables to emulate Copy in Enterprise Manage

This script will produce the same output as doing a Copy in enterprise manager and then pasting into Query Analyser.It can handle Clustered and Nonclustered Primary Keys, Multiple Foreign Keys, Defaults, Constraints, Identity Fields.  If you are able to improve this script, or find any bugs, please let me know.

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2003-04-09

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Tracking All the Queries

I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?

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