Execute Dynamic SQL commands in SQL Server

In some applications having hard coded SQL statements is not appealing, because of the dynamic nature of the queries being issued against the database server. Because of this sometimes there is a need to dynamically create a SQL statement on the fly and then run that command. This can be done quite simply from the application perspective where the statement is built on the fly whether you are using ASP.NET, ColdFusion or any other programming language. But how do you do this from within a SQL Server stored procedure?

Dynamic Pivot, Passing Temp Table Variables to Dynamic SQL

This example demonstrates how to perform a pivot using dynamic headers based on the row values of a table. The article also shows how to pass a temp table variable to a Dynamic SQL call.

Test Your Linked Server Connections

Test your linked server connections and display the results.

Executing Dynamic SQL

Create a Comma Delimited CSV File from Any Table/View with Debugging

Dynamically build a comma delimited CSV file using the BCP utility from any table or view in your database with a useful code debugging parameter.

Dynamically Drop a User From Your SQL Instance

Dynamically drop a user from each database on an SQL instance by their server login SID, then remove there server login as well. Plus some helpful printable information when ran.

Finding Objects on Your SQL Instance

Find objects in any database on your SQL instance.

Use Dynamic SQL to Improve Query Performance

This article by Jonathan Roberts demonstrates how to use dynamic SQL and overcome its downsides.

How To Avoid Msg 106

When you have too many tables in a view, what can you do? New author Henrik Staun Poulsen brings us a solution that we

Demonstration on how to pivot data using temp tables

This script was designed to 'pivot' data that couldnt easily be pivoted in any other way. i used temporary tables to eventually achieve the result i was looking for 🙂