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  • March 4, 2012 at 11:53 am

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    Oh, be careful, now...

    That's why I use sys.all_columns. Even on a brand new instance, it contains more than 4,000 rows when all features are installed correctly and it doesn't matter which database is the current database so long as you have the necessary privs.

    INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS, on the other hand, can have zero rows in it on a new database and certainly a whole lot less than 4,000 rows.

    --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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