To perform certain customized functions, scripts can be run when Windows Operating System starts or shuts down. The method to execute a script at startup or shutdown varies with different versions.

I'm building an automated build procedure, one of the steps is to create a database and it's structure/procedures/functions etc.<BR><BR>Clearly I can script the entire db creation job in sql and use ...

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The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...

In this third in a series on working smarter with T-SQL, let's give the built-in sp_executesql stored proc a go. In my previous posts, I've described some methods for generating and executing T-SQL ...