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  • March 18, 2008 at 8:56 pm

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    Andrew_Webster (3/18/2008)

    Top tip for working with the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views: use Excel to view them.

    In Excel, go to Data, Import External Data..., then either Import Data or New Database Query. Use or create a DSN and fish out the INFORMATION_SCHEMA view that your interested in. COLUMNS is the one I use the most.

    Then use Excel's Autofilter and you got yourself a Data Dictionary that you can filter to find, say, all fields with the same name, all fields of the same datatype (use char instead of nchar and have a feeling you've done it somewhere else too?), or whatever.

    Hadn't thought about that... that's a very clever and useful idea! Thanks, Andrew!

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    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.

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