Those Stubborn Database Rules - Finding Them and Scripting Them

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Those Stubborn Database Rules - Finding Them and Scripting Them

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Scott Abrants SSCommitted Points: 1503 More actions · Answer 1

I want to thank Jon W. and Tom W. for helping edit this article before posting.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 2

Nice article and useful for digging out those silly artifacts.

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Scott Abrants SSCommitted Points: 1503 More actions · Answer 3

Thank you Grant. I look forward to your presentation at Data Camp 2.0! Keep up the great work you do for the SQL Server community.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 4

Thanks Scott. I'm looking forward to your presentation at Data Camp 2.0 as well. You need to keep up your work for the community also.

Now, I happen to be closely acquainted with the person setting up the schedule and I know that he's bribable. When did you want to put your presentation on? Was yours at the end of the day or right after lunch, I forget?

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Scott Abrants SSCommitted Points: 1503 More actions · Answer 5

Any time slot is good as long as it is not the same time as yours because I am sure everyone will be at that one and the others will be empty. Very nice job on your latest book!

scunnin Grasshopper Points: 21 More actions · Answer 6

Good find. I believe you just saved me from a significant amount of future stress. I suspect that discovering the lack of support for rules on a future release would have been a painful experience.

Thanks.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 7

Nice article and good info.

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Scott Abrants SSCommitted Points: 1503 More actions · Answer 8

Thank you for the feedback. My intention is to write a follow up that will actually take the defined bindrules and script out proper constraints. What is interesting is how I ran into these in the first place. This issue came up because this database was created before I entered the picture and a non sql server resource defined the database. I think this is something we all have come across and knowing where the gotchas are is very important. I am planning on giving some of that back story in the follow up. Sound useful?

Giammarco Schisani SSC Journeyman Points: 77 More actions · Answer 9

Thanks for the article. Very useful. Looking forward for the followup.

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Ligtorn Ten Centuries Points: 1107 More actions · Answer 10

I believe that I can save you the headache. I have just published two scripts, one which can convert bound default objects to column defaults and one that converts bound rules to column check constraint.

Convert rule objects to column check constraints[/url]

Convert default objects to column defaults[/url]

Actually it is pretty complicated to convert rules, because sql server stores them as transact statements. The only way I know of, are converting them by doing text parsing. Parsing these objects are pretty hard to generalize. I would appreciate feedback if you run into problems with the scripts

Scott Abrants SSCommitted Points: 1503 More actions · Answer 11

Wow thank you for that. Now promising to post a follow up might not really be needed.