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  • August 28, 2015 at 11:07 am

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    jeffrey yao (8/28/2015)

    This is a nice article that generates lots of interesting discussions and topics.

    But from pure technical perspective, I feel there is one special deficiency I do not like, that is: hard-coding of column names and lack of flexibility to handle multiple queries.

    I recently submitted an article to mssqltips.com, and in that article, I addressed this deficiency with the help of PowerShell and .Net. The article is accepted and should appear soon.

    Heh... I think it's a deficiency to have to use PowerShell and .Net to do such a simple thing. 😉 I also agree that it would be nice to have something generic that has dynamic column names and table sources but the purpose of this article wasn't to provide a total solution. It was meant to demonstrate how to easily generate HTML for a given table output. From there, you can certainly let your imagination lose.

    Looking forward to your good article, Jeffrey. Thanks for the heads up.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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