Script to Return a Transposed Data Row

By click-fund, 2005/11/10

I often do the following when administering databases "select * from Table where PrimaryKey=value" and find the output in Query Analyzer is inconvenient to view when the table has many wide columns (which is often the case). This script returns a single entry from a table but "transposed" so that the data flows down the page not accross it. I know this sounds trivial, but it's convenient, so I thought I'd share it.

(Note: T-SQL doesn't support arrays, as far as I'm aware, so the code is a little ugly.)

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