As we are preparing to migrate some of our older SQL Server databases that are nearing their end of support to SQL Server 2019, one of the necessary tasks is determining what Linked Servers need to be established on the new servers to maintain the existing functionality for all of our users’ applications. Testing the … Read more
The SQL script below, which modifies one I wrote last year, has been modified to work with SQL Server 2008 and newer versions. On these versions, when querying SQL Server to output the schema of a database table, length values of MAX are returned as -1. Since this script builds table variables that mimic the … Read more
This is closely related to my last post, where we were searching for text in the data itself, but now we’re just looking to see if the text exists in the statements that create views or stored procedures. This has been tested only on SQL Server 2008 R2. If you do not have permission on … Read more