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Using Sparse Columns with SELECT ... INTO
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sestell1
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Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:40 AM
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Nice question.
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From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174979.aspx:
SPARSE
Indicates that the column is a sparse column. The storage of sparse columns is optimized for null values. Sparse columns cannot be designated as NOT NULL. For additional restrictions and more information about sparse columns, see Use Sparse Columns.
If a sparse column cannot be designated as NOT NULL, is there a NULL/NOT NULL property to be transferred or does making the column SPARSE automatically make the column NULLable? Or does a SPARSE column have a NULL property that just cannot be changed to NOT NULL? Just wondering...
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Ernie Schlangen (8/29/2012)
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174979.aspx:
SPARSE
Indicates that the column is a sparse column. The storage of sparse columns is optimized for null values. Sparse columns cannot be designated as NOT NULL. For additional restrictions and more information about sparse columns, see Use Sparse Columns.
If a sparse column cannot be designated as NOT NULL, is there a NULL/NOT NULL property to be transferred or does making the column SPARSE automatically make the column NULLable? Or does a SPARSE column have a NULL property that just cannot be changed to NOT NULL? Just wondering...
Run Wayne's code... aftewards do sp_help Table1 to get the structure of the table back. There's still a Nullable property.
I just never realized the Nullability of a column transferred with INTO. That's neat, just not something I ever worried about because I generally use INTO #temptables, not to make new ones, and as I"m normally dumping partial contents of tables into the #temp, the values are what I'm normally more interested in.
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Thanks for the quick answer! I suspected that I would get an answer here before I had time to try to find it myself!
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Good question but tough......
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Great topic and question. Thanks!
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Sparse columns are a property of the storage layer, rather than the logical table. Therefore a SELECT…INTO statement does not copy over the sparse column property into a new table.
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udayroy15 (8/29/2012)
Sparse columns are a property of the storage layer, rather than the logical table. Therefore a SELECT…INTO statement does not copy over the sparse column property into a new table.
I was just looking into this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280604.aspx
"Catalog views for a table that has sparse columns are the same as for a typical table. The sys.columns catalog view contains a row for each column in the table and includes a column set if one is defined."
"Sparse columns are a property of the storage layer, rather than the logical table. Therefore a SELECT…INTO statement does not copy over the sparse column property into a new table."
SELECT OBJECT_NAME(object_id) AS TableName, name AS ColumnName, is_sparse
FROM SYS.COLUMNS
WHERE object_id IN (object_id('Table1'), object_id('Table2'))
TableName ColumnName is_sparse
Table1 RowID 0
Table1 DateTimeStamp 0
Table1 Col1 1
Table1 Col2 1
Table1 Col3 1
Table1 TblColumnSet 0
Table2 RowID 0
Table2 DateTimeStamp 0
Table2 Col1 0
Table2 Col2 0
Table2 Col3 0
Table2 TblColumnSet 0
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