Take a look at the OUTPUT clause. You can use that to capture inserted data, including identity values, into a temporary table for use in later processing.

In order to use a foreign key constraint you have to have either a primary key or a unique index/constraint on the table to which you are referencing. Otherwise, you'd...

We ran into a similar situation once, but in an OLTP system. Long story, short, we only had to do this in a few places and the data load was...

Access the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. There's one for tables, columns, routines, parameters...

You're stuck. You can only reference what constitutes a candidate key, a pk or unique index and then the whole thing or the leading edge... You could create a second...

But you still have to change the context to run the ALTER/CREATE/whatever script on each of the different environments.

That said, listen to Brandie. Fight the very idea of running...

Not seeing the code, this might not be applicable, but if you're creating the same derived tables over and over again as part of the query of the view, you...

Snapshot replication is a one-time, either on demand or scheduled, operation where an entire database structure and all it's data (but not the security settings, etc.) are copied from one...

If I understand the question, the thing you're looking for is a snapshot. That's an immediate copy of the entire database.

Well, that depends. If you have the keys needed to find the right row or rows in the child table and all the columns you want are in the child...

If a PK looks like this:

Col1

,Col2

,Col3

Then in order to reference that as a foreign key, the code would look something like this:

ALTER TABLE [schema].[tablename]

CONSTRAINT [MyFKName] FOREIGN KEY

(Col1

,Col2

,Col3)

REFERENCES [schema].[parenttable]

(Col1

,Col2

,Col3)

The names of...

From the sounds of things, you should also check some of the basic operations in the code like access order and/or join order. You need to make sure that the...

If I do the entire design from scratch, how much of the fee do I get?

Seriously though. We're here because we enjoy the technical challenges and each others company. Ask...

Depending on what kind of data you're trying to get back, yeah. Generally I've seen either a derived table or a correlated sub-query within the ON clause work extremely well...

Yeah, if you want to equate data set or result set with derived table, then they're the same. Generally though, most people refer to a derived table as a subquery...