Generating automatic select stmt for all columns
Here's how to use the derived table technique to generate an automatic script for selecting all columns in a table:
2002-07-11
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Miscellaneous
Adding Sorts to SQL Server Views
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 […]
2002-07-11
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Get SQL Server default collation
PROCEDURE used to find the server's default collation not shown in EM in servers properties
2002-07-10
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Finding the Nth Maximal Value
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 […]
2002-07-10
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VB6/ADO Stored Procedure Call Generator
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 […]
2002-07-04
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Generate Column Listing
Returns an ordered column listing for the specified table, stored procedure, or view.
2002-07-04
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Generate Date Range
Generates a rowset with a datetime values for every day between a start datetime and end datetime.
2002-07-04
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2002-07-04
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Find Duplicates
Returns the key fields of all duplicate rows in a table based upon any fields in the table.
2002-07-04
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Delete Duplicates
Deletes the duplicates from a table based upon any fields in the table leaving a single copy of the record in the table.
2002-07-04
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ETL Framework In Production
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