I'd attend. I think there is a razor thin line between being a team player and carrying out the broader plan even when some implementation details may be suboptimal and...

A couple places I willfully employ triggers:

1. maintaining audit columns like last modified date and user

2. copying modified or deleted rows to an audit table or shadow-history table

I see it...

Stylez (3/23/2016)

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Good Afternoon Guys,

I would like to ask is there a way for me To Optimize the way i insert My Data from A Temp Table To A Sql Table....

ringovski (3/23/2016)

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Hi,

I have inherited a report from a old colleague and you can see that he has used the FOR XML Path command for one of the columns previous approvers.

The...

OceanDrop (3/23/2016)

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Very interesting! Good to know! Thanks for the sample and I will definitely keep this in mind from moving forward!

Btw, the technique that I provided, do not use the...

OceanDrop (3/23/2016)

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Thank you so much for the response! About the concatenate strings with Order by clause technique,

I am not aware of any cases where this might not be reliable....

Agreed. I did not really attempt to achieve that. To my knowledge...

dave hants (3/23/2016)

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Great little article Orlando. And a nice neat trick for what I find is a common requirement.

</ soapbox on

It's just a shame that Microsoft don't have a...

OceanDrop (3/22/2016)

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Thank you so much for sharing, this is great! As I am new to XML in SSMS, I was able to understand it but I am not sure if...

ScottPletcher (3/22/2016)

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Excellent article! My only additional suggestion would be to put your code in the master db, and start the proc name with sp_, so that the code can...

the sqlist (3/22/2016)

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And because the whole "trick" is using the dm_exec_describe_first_result_set_for_object function I directly tried it with sp_who and sp_who2 and again, for sp_who2 doesn't work, it returns on empty...

the sqlist (3/22/2016)

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This doesn' work:

SELECT

*

INTO #result

FROM

OPENQUERY([LOCALHOST], 'EXEC sys.sp_who;')

select * from #result

Msg 7202, Level 11, State 2, Line...

The praise is much...

gshouse (3/22/2016)

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If you want to make this super-robust a guard that tests if sys.dm_exec_describe_first_result_set_for_object can determine the metadata could be worthwhile. For example, using this technique for sp_who2 does...

Mike Is Here (3/22/2016)

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You offer a very creative solution that has the ability to have dynamic columns. However, practically since you almost always need to know the columns names any...