There are many ways which can help us to save our time to write some repeated code or to do some repeated action, in this post we will see some very common code which we need very frequently in our development life. I am not saying that after this post you will save your half say work every day but hope fully you will get something for you which can may you happier, so let’s start one by one
To create a new table from another existing table without data:
Select * Into [new_table_name]
From [existing_table]
Where 1 > 2 -- it will never be true so no data will be copied
Where clause is not needed here if we want to copy entire data from existing table. One more thing to note, if we don't want to copy the existing table as it is, say we want some selected columns and want to add some my own columns then we can use column names in our select statement, and to add our own column use null as [columnname] or some value as [columnname]
How to copy records from an existing table to another existing table:
Insert Into [destination_table]
Select * from [source_table]
In this case both table should exists, if we want only those records which is useful for us then we can put here a where class at the end to select only those records.
Conditional where clause: suppose on our page there is a drop down "Gender" having values, 0: All, 1: Male, 2: Female, so in our procedure we would need to by pass the gender checking if value is all (0) so how to do this in procedure, it simple, see this
Where (@gender = 0 OR [Gender] = @gender)
When user will select 0:All where clause will be 0 = 0 or Gender = 0 so true
When user will select 1: Male where clause will be 1 = 1 or Gender = 1 so true for only those records where gender is 1 and similarly for Female.
Row Number in SQL Server: how to get the row number in our result
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY [col1], [col2]......) AS [RowNumber],
* From table_name
Dynamic query: In dynamic query we need to check whether we have to add AND or not, so best would be to add where 1 = 1 and before every condition put AND
With Statement: Some times we need to use view to calculate complicated data but with statement no need to create a separate view but directly use With, let's see this for a paginated gridview data procedure
WITH Temp AS
(
Select ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY CreationDate DESC) [RowNo]
, C.BlogCommentID
From BlogComments C
Where C.CreationDate BETWEEN @StartDate AND @EndDate
)
Select *
From BlogComments C
INNER JOIN Temp ON Temp.BlogCommentID = C.BlogCommentID
Where Temp.[RowNo] BETWEEN @startRowIndex + 1 AND @startRowIndex + @PageSize
ORDER BY Temp.[RowNo]
In this example we used with to create a Temp table which can be used like a view.
Concatenate strings without using loops:
DECLARE @str varchar(max)
SELECT @str = coalesce(@str + ', ' + customer_name, customer_name)
FROM Customer_Name Order By customer_name
PRIINT @str
Use Auto generated columns in Grid View with our given column name:
Select col1 AS [Customer Id]
, col2 AS [Customer Name]
, col3 AS [Customer City]
FROM Customers
We can adjust our column heading name in SQL Server so auto generated column can be used and show a proper heading.
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