Generating Art
Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
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Metadata
2020-09-30
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What’s in that database? Getting information about routines
There is a lot of information held in SQL Server metadata about your SQL Server procedures, triggers, views and functions. Some of it is valuable, other nuggets are useful and a few are rather dull but worthy. It really all needs to be tied together to tell the full story, especially if you are not able to, or do not want to, query the metadata directly.
2019-12-02
SQL Server Metadata Functions: The Basics
To be able to make full use of the system catalog to find out more about a database, you need to be familiar with the metadata functions. They save a great deal of time and typing when querying the metadata. Once you get the hang of these functions, the system catalog suddenly seems simple to use, as Robert Sheldon demonstrates in this article.
2016-03-28
6,652 reads
Industrial-strength database documentation using Extended Properties
To finish this short series on extended properties a look at documenting sets of database objects
2011-04-05
8,625 reads
Modifying and deleting extended properties
Continuing the short series on extended properties, this article explains how to turbocharge the creation of extended properties
2011-03-29
12,203 reads
Extracting Extended Properties
In this second article of a short series we look at using the Extended Properties which you have added to a database
2011-03-22
12,265 reads
Extended Properties Introduction
Part one of a four part series intent on demystifying and making more accessible SQL Server extended properties
2013-09-27 (first published: 2011-03-17)
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List all Columns in Server Part 2
Generates a list of Server, Database, Table , Column Names and properties
2011-02-08 (first published: 2011-01-31)
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List all columns in server
I came across a project which required a list of all columns within a server and thought I would post it here in case anyone else had this requirement.
2010-09-30 (first published: 2010-09-28)
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