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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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Date Only

This is a follow-on to info's script to strip the time portion of a datetime or smalldatetime, leaving only the date.  I found info's script interesting!  When I had to do this I converted the date to varchar and back again instead of to float.  Seems to work fine for me.

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2003-04-03

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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
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