Views dont parameters, but sometimes you need them to act as if they do. Andy discusses views and how they encapsulate code and then offers an idea about how to alter the behavior of views on the fly. Controversial? Probably!
2003-12-01
8,662 reads
This "script" truncates all user tables in a database (except dtproperties). It uses sp_msforeachtable stored procedure which cycles through each table in the database and performs the same query on each. Its useful in a number of different scenarios
2003-11-24
297 reads
New product designed to help you move from one database platform to another. (Not Reviewed)
2003-11-21
1,260 reads
Persons Names,Addresses or any other master information if not entered with proper case . I mean if some records are with All caps ,some with all small or any other combination.You may be able to convert this data to proper case. Which will help you to show it in better looks on websites or in […]
2003-11-19
543 reads
This article shows how to do conditional multiple table inserts. While it is more script than we typically display, it's interesting and might get you thinking about other uses for the idea.
2003-11-18
14,334 reads
This script starts in the master database, and then goes to each USER database and creates the DDL for each USER table in every database. You can then save the results or copy them to a new query window to run on another server.
2003-11-14
534 reads
This script will create another script that has all foreign key DDL that exists in a given database. You only have to run this, and then select the results of this script and paste it into another query window, or if for some reason you have lost your DDL this will enable you to retrieve […]
2003-11-12
275 reads
Two weeks ago Andy started his wildly successful series on Worst Practices. This week he continues that series discussing why failing to use primary keys and clustered indexes are worst practices. Agree or disagree, read the article and join the discussion. One thing you'll have to admit, reading an article by Andy is a lot more interesting than reading Books Online!
2008-05-09 (first published: 2003-11-10)
66,747 reads
This will make a comma seperated list from a column using 2 select statements.
2003-11-07
225 reads
We can use this sp to clear data in tables. I mainly created this sp for two reason. 1.This is useful to commence the testing from scratch. 2.Whenever we ask the database backup from our customer. They hesitant to give the production database because of confidential. I have used Delete and Truncate statement to clear […]
2003-11-06
201 reads
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers