Sometimes I write blog posts mainly so that I can find stuff when I need it later. This is such a blog post.

Of late I have been writing lots of deployment scripts and I am fan of putting big labels into deployment scripts (which, these days, reside in SSDT) so one can easily see what’s going on as they execute. Here’s such an example from my current project:

which results in this being displayed when the script is run:

In case you care….PM_EDW is the name of one of our databases.

I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I spent about half an hour crafting that and a few others for my current project because a colleague has just alerted me to a website that would have done it for me, and given me lots of options for how to present it too:

http://www.patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=testall&f=Banner3&t=PM__EDW

Very useful indeed. Nice one! And yes, I’m sure there are a myriad of sites that do the same thing - I’m a latecomer, ok?

@Jamiet