Microsoft says that you cannot add an ORDER BY to a view unless it comes with a TOP clause at the beginning of the query. Many people think that if that's true then you cannot "Order" the whole query but only the top few. However, this is not true because when you use TOP 100 […]
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Alternate method for generating a rowset with all of the numbers in a specified range.
2002-07-11
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Here's how to use the derived table technique to generate an automatic script for selecting all columns in a table:
2002-07-11
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This SELECT will give you a summarized report for the options selected for ALL the databases on your SQL Server. It's compatible with versions 7 and 2000.
2002-07-11
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Here's a script that will read a text file from the Windows system into SQL Server
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This procedure gets a tablename, column and an integer number N as parameters and finds the Nth maximum value of the column's value in a table for example : running it with 'products', 'UnitPrice' , 13 , @reswill get the 13TH largest value of unitprice from products is no such N exist an error message […]
2002-07-10
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PROCEDURE used to find the server's default collation not shown in EM in servers properties
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Here's a simple SQL to give you locking information.The SQL tells you what resource type you are using, the object name, lock request mode, lock status, and also the calling program's name.And all this from a simple query on sysprocesses, and syslockinfo!
2002-07-10
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This SQL Server stored procedure generates more readable output from the system sp_lock procedureinstead of getting object ids and session ids it returns the object name and user name
2002-07-10
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this procedure is an interface to bcp it gets database name,table name , file and path,,mode E/I for export/import and seperator character user and password and exports/imports text files from / to SQLSERVER
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Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
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Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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