• Nice solution. As a DBA I faced similar tasks many times. My usual way of completing them is by using Excel:

    1. Start with 1 column

    ALFKI

    ANTON

    AROUT

    BERGS

    BOLID

    BONAP

    BSBEV

    CACTU

    CONSH

    DOGGY

    FOLIG

    FOLKO

    FRANK

    FRANR

    FRANS

    FURIB

    2. Insert a column in front of it

    3. Type

    Placeholder1

    in the first cell of this column. Drag and drop the value to populate the whole column.

    4. Type

    Placeholder2

    in the first cell of the 3rd column.  Drag and drop the value to populate the whole column.

    5. "Save As" to a text file

    6. Open the saved text part in notepad. do Edit/Replace replacing

    Placeholder1 with

    SET NOCOUNT ON SELECT C. CustomerID, C. CompanyName, C.City, O. OrderDate, O. Freight FROM Customers C INNER JOIN Orders  O    " ON C.CustomerID = O.CustomerID WHERE C.CustomerID = '

    then replacing Placeholder2 with a single quote. Make sure all TABs and Commas are replaced with empty strings as well.

    Save the output.

    It is more simple than it sounds!

    Regards,

    Anatol Romanov