Determine Users with Permission on an Object
This script will walk the hierarchical chain of users and roles to find users with permissions on an object.
2009-03-24 (first published: 2009-02-18)
1,634 reads
Charles Hawkins
Random Number Generator
Often the RAND() function is predictable based on the seed. This stored procedure generates a pretty good random integer because the seed itself is quite unpredictable. You can’t put this in a UDF since it is indeterminate due to the RAND and GETDATE() functions used.
2006-09-15 (first published: 2006-09-06)
645 reads
Stored Proc to List Columns for a Primary Key
Stored procedure to return the list of columns of the primary key for a table. The name of the column for the result set is the name of the primary key for the table.
2006-09-14 (first published: 2006-09-07)
781 reads
Deduping Data in SQL Server 2005
One of the neatest T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server 2005 is the ROW_NUMBER() function. New author Charles Hawkins brings us an explanation of how you can use this function along with a Common Table Expression to remove duplicate data.
2006-02-07
13,238 reads
Better Script to Get SQL Server Port Number
You don't have to try and decipher what instance you are running. The extended stored procedure xp_instance_regread does all the functionality of xp_regread and automatically knows which instance in the registry it should look at.
2003-06-06
1,077 reads
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