Create Table DDL via TSQL
A stored procedure from longtime community member Lowell Izaguirre, returns the CREATE TABLE definition for any table, including PK, UQ, Identity, FK, Defaults, and more.
2019-04-16
17,535 reads
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PowerShell To Get Active Directory Users And Groups into SQL
Use Powershell to query AD for Users, Groups and GroupMembers
2018-04-27 (first published: 2016-03-31)
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Enumerate Windows Group Members
Here a quick script showing how to get all the Active Directory users in a AD group.
2017-02-24 (first published: 2016-03-17)
9,015 reads
Deep Dive into Changing Database Collation
Changing Database Collation Through Primary keys, Foreign Keys, Default and Check Constraints and more.
2016-03-07
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2014-08-13
2,039 reads
Reverse Engineering a Server Side Trace
How to reverse engineer or script a trace for disaster recovery, or simply scripting for enhance and adjustment.
2010-03-23
2,096 reads
Get DDL for any SQL 2000 table
a stored procedure returning a single varchar(8000) of the CREATE TABLE script for any table.It does everything calculated columns, rules,indexes,defaults,triggers,constraints...everything.
2009-07-28 (first published: 2009-07-11)
857 reads
Get DDL for any SQL 2005 table
returns CREATE TABLE script for any table. including schema name,calculated columns,
indexes with INCLUDE,rules,defaults,triggers,constraints,extended properties...everything.
2009-07-11
1,927 reads
TEXT/NTEXT Find and Replace
Find And Replace any string, in the entire table with this function. Parameterized for easy use.
2009-02-26 (first published: 2009-02-09)
908 reads
Default Trace Load of All 5 Files
The default trace keeps the last 20 meg of info, and a max of 5 files...This loads all 5 files into a table so it can be reviewed.
2009-02-25 (first published: 2009-02-07)
1,280 reads
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 [email protected] 8 [email protected]If I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
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