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Adding Sorts to SQL Server Views

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Microsoft says that you cannot add an ORDER BY to a view unless it comes with a TOP clause at the beginning of the query. Many people think that if that's true then you cannot "Order" the whole query but only the top few. However, this is not true because when you use TOP 100 […]

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2002-07-11

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Finding the Nth Maximal Value

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This procedure gets a tablename, column and an integer number N as parameters and finds the Nth maximum value of the column's value in a table for example :  running it with 'products', 'UnitPrice' , 13 ,  @reswill get the 13TH largest value of unitprice from products is no such N exist an error message […]

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2002-07-10

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VB6/ADO Stored Procedure Call Generator

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Generates a VB6/ADO procedure prototype, procedure call, and ADO Command Object Parameters.Append calls.  To use, simply set the @spname variable equal to the name of your stored procedure, run, and cut and paste the output into you VB program.  The generated code may require some slight modifications, but this should save you a lot of […]

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2002-07-04

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Identity Defaults

What happens when I run this code?

CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
     id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
     somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO

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