Using Comments to Quickly Test CTEs
A quick tip for using a combination of block and line comments to test CTEs
2014-11-10
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Carl P. Anderson
Concatenating Rows
Often in database design we store different values in rows to take advantage of a normalized design. However many times we need to combine multiple rows of data into one row for a report of some sort. New author Carl P. Anderson brings us some interesting T-SQL code to accomplish this.
2011-03-04 (first published: 2009-10-14)
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