Brahmanand Shukla

I’m a seasoned SQL Server Professional having certified with MCSA SQL 2016 and with over 12 years of rigorous working experience in the Design, Development, and Optimization of MS SQL Databases. Few of my unique skills involved – Out of box thinking when working out the database design and can-do anything attitude when it comes to the database. Managed money critical, compliance critical, and performance-critical SQL Server databases, and some of them were in TB’s. You can find out more about me on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/brahmanand-shukla)

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T-SQL script to purge all the tables including foreign key references

T-SQL script to purge all the tables including foreign key references. The script has been made smart enough to use TRUNCATE wherever there is no foreign key reference and to use DELETE wherever there is foreign key reference.

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2019-12-10

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Generic trigger for maintaining the Audit Log

This trigger will work even if you don't have the primary key on any table. Mechanism to configure the primary key in config table has been provided. This can be very helpful to solve the system audit requirements without much efforts.

Disclaimer : Audit Log trigger has performance overhead. It’s meant for table which is not frequently updated, deleted or inserted. Please take precaution when creating the trigger on the table having too many columns.

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2019-10-15 (first published: )

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