SQL Snippets
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- Cannot have ORDER BY clause in a view's definition
- Finding a sproc in the meta-database
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES WHERE SPECIFIC_NAME = N'uspFindComponent' AND SPECIFIC_SCHEMA = N'<Schema_Name, sysname, Schema_Name>'
- Declaring a table variable
DECLARE @TableVar TABLE (Cola INT PRIMARY KEY, Colb CHAR(3)) INSERT INTO @TableVar VALUES (1, 'abc') INSERT INTO @TableVar VALUES (2, 'def') SELECT * FROM @TableVar GO
- WHERE EXISTS condition
SELECT Version FROM LanguageVersion WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM LanguageVersion )
- Selecting results into a table variable & CTE using WITH
DECLARE @i INT DECLARE @t TABLE (L BIGINT, ID BIGINT, V NVARCHAR(64)) INSERT @t EXEC @i = uspFindLanguageVersion 'My Language' SELECT V FROM @t SELECT @i AS 'Return' GO WITH DirReps(ManagerID, DirectReports) AS ( SELECT Version, LANGUAGE FROM LanguageVersion AS e ) SELECT ManagerID, DirectReports FROM DirReps ORDER BY ManagerID; GO
- TRANSACTION
BEGIN TRANSACTION; BEGIN TRY -- Statements END TRY BEGIN CATCH SELECT ERROR_NUMBER() AS ErrorNumber, ERROR_SEVERITY() AS ErrorSeverity, ERROR_STATE() AS ErrorState, ERROR_PROCEDURE() AS ErrorProcedure, ERROR_LINE() AS ErrorLine, ERROR_MESSAGE() AS ErrorMessage; IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 ROLLBACK TRANSACTION; RETURN(1); END CATCH; IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 COMMIT TRANSACTION; RETURN(0);
- MSDN links
- INSERT
- CREATE FUNCTION
- CREATE PROCEDURE
- WITH
- Using Special Data
- EXECUTE
- LIKE
- OBJECT_ID
- SET @local_variable
- Performing Prefix Searches
- Derived query
SELECT ComponentName.Name, derivedtbl_1.ID FROM ComponentName CROSS JOIN (SELECT ID FROM Component) AS derivedtbl_1 WHERE derivedtbl_1.ID = ComponentName.Component
- INNER JOIN
SELECT ComponentReference.Reference, ComponentReference.Component, Reference.Location, ComponentReference.ID FROM ComponentReference INNER JOIN Reference ON ComponentReference.Reference = Reference.ID WHERE (ComponentReference.Component = 983)
- Generating a GUID
DECLARE @id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER SET @id = NEWID() DECLARE @txt NVARCHAR(36) SET @txt = CONVERT(NVARCHAR(36), @id) SELECT @id, @txt, LEN(@txt)
- Procedure for converting a hexadecimal string into the original binary data
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.uspHexToBinary @s NVARCHAR(MAX), @b VARBINARY(MAX) OUT AS DECLARE @SQL NVARCHAR(MAX) SET @SQL = 'SELECT @b = ' + @s EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL @SQL, N'@b VARBINARY(MAX) OUTPUT', @b OUTPUT GO
