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Stored Procedure as Create Table proxy?

With SQL Server it was my understanding, I thought, that you could elevate a users permissions with specific constraints. For example, you need a user to create a specific table object in a specific ...
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Error in restore database

I use this query in SQL Server 2008 R2 to restore DB1 database: RESTORE DATABASE [DB1] FROM DISK = N'D:\new.bak' WITH RESTRICTED_USER, FILE = 1, NOUNLOAD, REPLACE, STATS = 10; The following error ...
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Is it possible to determine what part of a stored procedure is currently executing?

Say I have a stored procedure like this (assume that the table schemas are fine): CREATE PROCEDURE p_MyProc AS INSERT MyTable SELECT Col1 FROM Table1 INSERT MyTable SELECT Col2 FROM Table2 INSERT ...
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Add user to Server Role in a transaction

Situation One webapp responsible for creating other webapps using SQL Server 2008 R2 Stored Procedures. One of the steps in creating another webapp is creating a new database, a login/user, assigning ...
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Still wrong to start the name of a user stored procedure with sp_?

One of my co-workers named a stored procedure in our SQL Server 2008 R2 database 'sp_something'. When I saw this, I immediately thought: "That is WRONG!" and started searching my bookmarks for this ...
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Stored procedure doesn't return results or any messages when executed as other privileged user [closed]

I have many stored procedures with... EXECUTE permission given to role XXXUser. Login XXXLogin is created and assigned to the role of XXXUser There is one particular stored procedure that I have ...
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How to automatically regularly a week backup SQL Server database if changes exist in the database for the previous week

I´m new to SQL Server administration. I´d like to create automatically backup database every sunday night, if there was any change in previous week (if not, backup is unnecessary). Is there some way ...
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Documenting a giant web of inter-related stored procedures in an MS SQL database: What tool or format?

I hope this is a question with a shorter answer than "Read a 1000 page book", but then, if that's the real situation, then hit me with it. I am not a real DBA, I'm a software developer who is ...
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can sql generate a good plan for this procedure?

I have read that procs that do not always do the same thing per se, will not always have a good plan generated. That is (correct me if I'm wrong), if I have a proc that if the day is even it reads ...
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Stored Procedure to return dynamically created table data

Quick back story, we are working with an outside vendor that has a survey system. The system is not necessarily designed the best in that when you create a new survey and the system creates a new ...
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Create stored procedure to select the data?

I have four tables user, shops, offer, merchant in that id is unique and present in all table shop ------ id shops 1 shop1 1 shop2 1 shop3 user ----- id name 1 abc merchant ...
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Why does the order of parameters matter for sp_trace_create?

The first batch of the following script calls stored procedure sp_trace_create with parameters in documentation order; the second batch swaps the positions of parameters @tracefile and @options: ...
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Error handling in container procedures

I'm aware of and use the techniques in this question. In my environment we have a lot of container procedures that call subprocedures, that may call other procedures, ad infinitum. For me ...
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How to Determine the input and output values of stored procedures?

I have hundreds of SPs and I would like to find out: input parameters with type output fields with type (not output parameters) Of course I could manually go through each one and write it down but ...
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Optimization: Moving variable declarations to the top of your procedure

While working on optimizing some stored procedures, I sat down with the DBA and went through some sprocs with high blocking and/or high read/write activity. One thing the DBA mentioned was I should ...