The long answer is: it depends.

Let's assume that the 8 column table is supposed to be retained in it's entirety and that you're supposed to create that, load it, and...

As you've already seen, no they're not both the same. Yes, the number of physical reads is the same, but you'll find that this procedure recompiles, a lot, probably every...

How about using a CTE within a UNION query. Something like this:

WITH MyCTE AS

(SELECT SalesOrderId

,row_number() over (order by TotalDue DESC) AS TotalRank

,TotalDue

FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader)

SELECT TOP 5 *

FROM MyCTE

UNION

SELECT *

FROM MyCTE

WHERE SalesOrderId...

This seriously sounds like a highly questionable approach.

However, if you really want to do it, you need to use dynamic SQL:

DECLARE @mySQL nvarchar(max)

SET @mySQL = 'SELECT ' + @Column...

But if you were using SMO as a code generation utility, it wouldn't matter that you had to use the name would it? I mean if we assume that you...

I've done it both ways. The one recommendation I can make is to make this consistent with the rest of the system. If the system is using artificial and invisible...

I'm sorry. I really don't know at this point. We use this all the time and it works just fine.

Dynamic management views related to transactions are what you're looking for. But, just so you know, that's not the final answer. That's where to look in the documentation to get...

How about that fact that FoxPro is no longer in the development path (although they're supporting it through 2015)?

Sorry, couldn't help it. I really don't know that much about FoxPro.

A CTE is very local. In fact, it's only available to the SQL query that immediately follows it, although it can be used multiple times within that query. so you...

Posting homework is bad enough. Cross-posting homework is getting a bit over the line. See my response on the other thread.

Clearly, obviously homework. You even posted the question numbers.

For help of this kind, you have to show what you tried that didn't work rather than have any of us do...

Sorry I wasn't clear. We collect both BatchComplete & RPCComplete because, depending on the app, the calls are made in different ways and we want to see both (most are...

Talking about which tool is better can be a pretty slippery slope. I've been using ERStudio for years. I used to use ERWin and the company I'm currently at was...

The one approach that occurs to me is to use SMO to walk your procedures, identify the parameters, and alter the CATCH statements with an additional insert to a log...