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  • August 30, 2012 at 6:03 am

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    dwain.c (8/29/2012)

    RBarryYoung (8/29/2012)

    Unless the queries all strictly follow the same very simple format, this is going to fall somewhere between "Impossible" and "Incredibly Hard" to do in SQL.

    If the queries are all truly valid (i.e., actually compilable, with tables and columns that actually exist in the database), then there is a way to do it the is merely "Very Difficult, Slow and Kludgy".

    So Barry - what do you think of my suggestion?

    Poll (select all that apply):

    1. Impossible

    2. Incredibly hard

    3. Very Difficult

    4. Slow

    5. Kludgy

    6. Clever

    😀

    4. Slow and 7. Tedious, going through all the queries adding "dbo." before each table name 😛 😀

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