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Pivot Data based on Unknown Field Items

I was posed a question a few months back on another site about being about to create a Pivot Table (Horizontal version of vertical data) and I saw the question again today. This will allow you to do that, just make changes to the query where the title is the replacement need. It will build […]

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2002-03-07

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Rows count for each and every table in a DB 

       By using this script one can find number of rows for each and every table in a database. Just cut and past this script in your DB and excute. A stored procedure will be created as 'Get_rowcounts_for_eachtable'. If U excuted this stored procedure, U can get all tablenames and rowcounts for respected […]

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2002-03-07

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Populate a table with a directory's file info.

I use this SP to return full directory information into a table.  FilePath, FileName, Filedate and FileSize are parsed from a 'dir /n/on/-c ' command. FilesInDir is the table created. usage: exec LoadFileDetailsIntoTable 'c:\winnt'select * from FilesInDir where filesize > 100000select min(fileDate) from FilesInDirThe Return Code will equal the number of files found.

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2002-03-05

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spAddField

spAddField is the proc I use to add all fields to the db in our upgrade scripts.  With this proc, you pass it the tablename, fieldname, datatype, and null or not null.  This will call spGetFieldsExists and see if the fields exists or not.  If it does, spAddField will drop that column.  Then it readds […]

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2002-03-05

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spFindTableInfo

spFindTableInfo is a great proc for finding info about your database.  It will accept parameters like tablename, fieldname, size, datatype.  So you can run it with no params, and it'll report every table, every field in those tables, and the size, datatype and whether its nullable or not.  You can filter it by Table name […]

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2002-03-05

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ORDER BY alias

There is a table tmp_tab:

CREATE TABLE tmp_tab (
id int,
val int
);
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES
(1, 1),
(2, NULL),
(3, 3),
(4, 4),
(5, 5);
You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
    ISNULL(val, id) + 1
Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct)

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