sure enough, and i won’t disagree. might i suggest you write that tip and submit it for publication at MSSQLTips?

i thought about using this scenario as an excuse to dive into Powershell, but the fact remains i cannot deploy any Powershell solution to OpsMgr, i am stuck with T-SQL and VBScript when building my customizations. so, i end up continuing to use those technologies.

While your T-SQL based solution is awesome, I think that this is a job better suited for Powershell.