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Finding the Nth Maximal Value

This procedure gets a tablename, column and an integer number N as parameters and finds the Nth maximum value of the column's value in a table for example :  running it with 'products', 'UnitPrice' , 13 ,  @reswill get the 13TH largest value of unitprice from products is no such N exist an error message […]

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2002-07-10

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Find Duplicated rows

This is a very simple and small stored procedure which will help you identify repeated rows on any given table.  This is specially useful for situations when you want to clean up a table and add a primary key on it, but you cannot until all duplication is eliminated.  Only two parameter are necessary; table […]

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2002-07-08

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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
What is returned?

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