SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

Have you ever found yourself with the need to copy SQL Server logins from one server to another? It'll come in handy if you're setting up a failover site, building a replacement server, setting up a ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database. In part one of this article, I described a ...

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment. My toolbox typically includes the tools that ...

A clear delegation of work exists between the HTML and PL/SQL in your company's Web pages: PL/SQL code fetches and manipulates data from SQL databases, and HTML code formats the results of PL/SQL ...

Many books, blogs, and articles on using Groovy with Windows rightly point out that some of the commonly used commands in Windows are not actually executables, but are instead built-in commands. These ...

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Yes, I'm currently working with Access. And boy thats fun. Is there a way to generate the SQL create script for a group of tables in Access and then run that against another Access database? The ...

The built in "script data" tooling in SQL Management Studio 2008 R2 is broken for me because of spurious "cyclical foreign keys" errors. Plus the "generate scripts" itself has gone from clunky but ...