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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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To retrieve Stored Procedure Parameters with Description

Use this procedure to get parameters for your stored procedure with data type,length, parameter position and also the mode of parameter (Input or Output). Can be used to populate the dynamic parameters for any procedure. Mohit NayyarMCP (.Net), MCSD, MCDBA

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2003-04-06

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View Input Buffers for all SPIDS

This procedure, sp_AllInputBuffers, uses dynamic T-SQL to generate and execute the DBCC INPUTBUFFER statement for each server process (except yours).  Perfect for performance troubleshooting situations, when you want to see what commands are being executed against your server.  Also, a great example of the power of dynamic T-SQL.For the @exec parameter, pass 1 or leave […]

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2003-04-04

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BIT_COUNT() III

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count(-1)
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