Take a look at today's article on CTE's. It shows several methods that might help with this question:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/phe/2926.asp

Depending on how complicated you want to get with the query, you...

Look up the statement ALTER TABLE and then follow Lynn Pettis' advice above.

I'd sure like to see the queries before I can completely agree with the conclusions.

I've never been asked anything too odd. However, back in the good ole days of the DOT COM boom, I was interviewed in a backyard sitting on a swing set....

Just to reassure you, you found "the" solution. You didn't have sufficient permissions under your regular login. You had to either get your login the permssions needed, or use a...

You didn't mention what level of access you have to the database in question. If you're not mapped to the owner of the stored procedure (for example, 'dbo'), then your...

Sorry, I was answering the other question, not your statement. You're correct. That, in fact, is probably what he needs to do. I apologize for any confusion.

I don't think you can. At least, I don't seem to be able to in the tests I've run so far. However, can you, instead, return a larger set of...

Sorry, we don't check to see if records exist, we simply insert them as part of changes otherwise your approach would work very well. What I showed is the select...

I agree on the recursion. I've implemented one solution using it and I was VERY sorry afterwards.

We have a need to only every insert data, no updates. So, we have a...

If I understand the question... No. You can't pass parameters to a view.

Thanks for the correction. 100% accurate. Apologies for the bit of bad info.

Download the AdventureWorks database from Microsoft. It's a pretty good place for running tests & learning.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3de719ecf7-9f46-4312-af89-6ad8702e4e6e%26DisplayLang%3den

There is a lot of time in Itzik's book on graphing & trees & pivots that, in my opinion, won't be used by most people (myself included). However the APPLY &...

I want to jump on the band wagon and recommend Itzik Ben-Gan's "Inside TSQL Querying". Add to it his "Inside TSQL Programming". The first book is all about TSQL queries. The...