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  • Utility script for instance level objects comparison between 2 SQL Server instances

    Useful for SQL Server upgrade and migration, instance consistency check in the enterprise, et cetera. Known assumptions: 1. pyodbc and proper SQL Server database driver setup and tested; 2. Windows Active Directory trusted connection to both instances. Login/password can also be used with very simple modification of the code; 3. Proper permission is set on…

  • Moving a LAMP site

    I’ve done this in the past, but thought this time I’ve got to take notes. It can be used as a crude check list in the future. Don’t underestimate the power of a practical, down-to-earth check list! Perhaps documents like this should be kept in a wiki page, for easy updating to avoid being stale,…

  • Search objects in SQL Server databases with pyodbc

    Command line utility to search for objects based on names. Search results will be displayed in well formatted tabular format, left-justified. 1. pyodbc installed; 2. Use trusted authentication by default. Find the relevant code to adjust to login/password as needed; 3. -w for wild card search. Default is exact name match, case insensitive in almost…

  • Questions on Text processing with Python

    No need to waste time on proving the importance of text processing, I suppose. Here is an automation use case I had in mind when I started my search: sucking out all domain\login inside a block of text. Yes, I can build my own regular expressions, and I have done that in the past. But,…

  • Drop a schema and all its objects in SQL Server

    Via Ranjith Kumar S, a script to drop all objects in a schema and then the schema itself in SQL Server. I made very slight modifications so stored procedure creation is unnecessary. All you need is adjusting values for @SchemaName and @WorkTest variables. Limitations: 1. If a table has a PK with XML or a…