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Concatenate Rows without a cursor

You might come accross a situation where you want to retrieve the values of all the rows concatenated and stored in one variable. Here is the solution. Lets say you have a table called tblCustomerOrders which has CustID and OrderID. You now want all the OrderIDs for a particular Customer to be stored in one […]

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2002-07-02

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GetFileInfo2

An Improved version of GetFileInfo that now includes the space utilization of each datafile.  Provides more detail per file.  Predict when your files are going to grow!! Both data and log files. This script organizes information about the database files on the server.   A cursor is used to get the information from each database.  The […]

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2002-06-28

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Function to return a delimited list as a table

This SQL2000 function accepts a delimited list of values as a string and the character you want to use as a delimiter.The function then splits these out and returns them as a table.The function assumes that the input string will contain unique integer values.Useage: -  SELECT Id FROM fnSplit('1,2,3,4' , ',')

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2002-06-27

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Get File Info

This script organizes information about the database files on the server.   A cursor is used to get the information from each database.  The information is reported in Megabytes, including the next allocation from disk.  No bells and whistles...and if I can find how dbcc showfilestats works I will add the amount of space used in […]

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2002-06-24

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Enumerate SQL Servers using SQLDMO and T-SQL

Microsoft reported BUG :ListAvailableServers Method of the SQLDMO.Application Object Causes Error 0x800A000E .When you execute the ListAvailableServers method of the SQLDMO.Application object from an ASP page, the following error message may occur: Microsoft SQL-DMO (0x800A000E) [SQL-DMO]Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. However, there is some solution to get SQL servers using Client […]

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2002-06-19

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The string_agg function

We create the following table and then insert some records in it:

create table t1 (
   id int primary key,
   category char(1) not null,
   product varchar(50)
);

insert into t1 values
(1, 'A', 'Product 1'),
(2, 'A', 'Product 2'),
(3, 'A', 'Product 3'),
(4, 'B', 'Product 4'),
(5, 'B', 'Product 5');
What happens if we execute the following query in both Sql Server and PostgreSQL?
select id, 
category, 
string_agg(product, ';')
                 over (partition by category order by id
                 rows between unbounded preceding and unbounded following) as stragg
from t1;

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