Display Rows Vertically or Alphabetically
Display a row vertically when a table has hundreds of columns to avoid scrolling.
2010-01-21 (first published: 2009-12-30)
3,406 reads
Scripts
datetime precision
Accuracy and precision go hand-in-hand. This script helps trim date values to whatever size is stored in a table's column.
2010-01-20 (first published: 2009-12-21)
1,532 reads
Implementing Most Recently Used Lookups
This script will adapt ordering of look-up lists by foreign key usage.
2010-01-18 (first published: 2009-12-23)
998 reads
Validate Deployed Databases by Version
Save all object definitions to a single stored procedure for easy validation
2010-01-14 (first published: 2009-12-18)
795 reads
return a file Last Modified Date
This function takes a UNC file as a parameter and return the last modified date
2010-01-13 (first published: 2009-12-17)
2,583 reads
Store Procedure Output in a Table
This script show a demonstration of how to interst tore Procedure Output in a Table.
2010-01-08 (first published: 2009-12-18)
2,504 reads
2010-01-07 (first published: 2009-12-18)
1,745 reads
SQL Server Agent Schedule Decoder
This script will break job schedules down into a readable format (msdb.dbo.sysschedules)
2010-01-06 (first published: 2009-12-16)
1,991 reads
Find weak login passwords in your server
Use this script to search for SQL Server logins who use weak password
2010-01-05 (first published: 2009-12-16)
4,447 reads
Script to Compress Tables and Indexes
This script creates scripts to compress all tables and indexes in a database.
2010-01-04 (first published: 2009-12-11)
15,932 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
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Using CHOOSE()
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers