Oracle: Clone An User With PL/SQL – Tablespace Quotas, Role Grants/Default Role, Object Grants And System Grants

As an Oracle DBA, you are very likely to get requests somewhat like this: Create an account for Sam Hill. The privileges should look exactly like Rob Nixon. If you are not into automating everything, your first instinct would be to fire-up an IDE like Toad or SQL Developer and script out the source user, …

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SQL Server: Run A Very Large Script By Splitting It Into Pieces Using PowerShell

Everyday is an interesting day in the life of a DBA. Today, I received a request to run in a HUGE script. This script had 125k INSERT statements each in a separate line. Just opening the script was an issue, leave alone running it into a database. You get this error in SSMS just trying …

Clone A SQL Server Software Installation

Cloning is perhaps not the right term to use here but let us pretend that it is and keep going. Let us say that you want to install SQL Server on another host say NewHost but you want it to have the same settings as another host/instance on say ModelHost. In fact, let us say …

SQL Server – Resolve “The /IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms command line parameter is missing or has not been set to true.”

As I blogged before, I am in the process of downgrading most of our Enterprise Edition SQL Servers to Standard Edition. The Uninstalls and Installs are done from the command-line. When I tried to install SQL Server 2012 Standard from the command-line, I used the following command-line I have added new-lines above so that you …

SQL Server: Run A Script In Command Line Mode (SQLCMD) Inside SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

In mature IT shops, all deployment scripts in a release are run into the database using command-line batches as opposed to doing it by hand. Error running SQLCMD scripts in SSMS Occasionally, when one is testing a single script within a release to make sure it works, he/she needs to jump to the command line to …