Migrating Logins To Another Server
Migrating your logins can be done the easy way or the hard way. Greg shows you one way - care to guess which way?!
2003-09-30
20,670 reads
Gregory Larsen
Using Query Analyzer Templates
Greg returns with an article based on some practical experience using QA templates to save time and work. Good examples, good work through, good idea!
2003-04-28
10,357 reads
Beware of Mixing Collations: Converting Collations
With SQL Server 2000 you are able to create databases or columns with a different collating setting than the server. This article will explain a couple of methods Greg has used to successfully change collation settings.
2002-12-30
8,749 reads
Beware of Mixing Collations - Part 1
A few months ago Greg Larsen ran across a big problem with SQL Server collation when querying. He shares his bruises in this quick article.
2002-12-19
12,825 reads
Removing Orphan Users from All Databases on Server
In this article by Greg Larsen, he shows you how to remove those pesky orphaned users that can be a security risk after restoring to a new server.
2002-11-18
16,131 reads
Converting Binary data to a Hex Character String
Occassionally you might want to convert a binary number into some printable string. This would allow you display some meaning fully numbers hex characters, instead of just some unreadable garbage. This script takes a binary field, of basically any length, and converts it, character by character, to a character string. The character string will contain […]
2002-11-07
472 reads
Streamlining the Database Server Recovery Process
Are you tired of manually restoring each database on a new server when the original server has a melt down? Does the manual process seem slow, and prone to keystoke and mouse click errors? Would you like to have those restore scripts automatically built, so you only have to fire them off? Well this article will show you one possible method for speeding up and reducing errors will trying to perform a restore of all databases on a server.
2002-11-05
9,033 reads
Setting All User Databases To Read Only Status
Every want to keep everyone from updating all your users database? If so this script will set each database to read only status.
2002-09-26
341 reads
Set All databases to DBO only and Single User Mode
Every want an easy way to set all database to DBO only and single user mode? Well here is a script to do that for you. This script is useful when you want to keep users out of the all the databases.
2002-09-23
1,327 reads
Turn off DBO and Single User mode for all DB's
Here is a companion script to "Set All databases to DBO only and Single User Mode" that will turn off dbo and single user mode for all databases.
2002-09-23
518 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers