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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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Get the Table Structure using a simple query

This query will solve problems related to Table structure. Using this query you can have the complete table structure for all the user tables with Table Name, Column Name, Data Type, and Null attributes of a column.You can run this script in Query Analyzer or make use of it in your front-end to give table […]

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2003-04-02

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The Disabled Index

I run this code on SQL Server 2022.

CREATE TABLE Drink
(
    drinkid INT NOT NULL
        CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
    drinkname VARCHAR(20),
    rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO

INSERT INTO Drink
(
    drinkid,
    drinkname,
    rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result?

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