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  • March 15

    Paging Data in SQL Server 2000

    Posted Under: Tags: SQL

    Up until now I've been blowing off adding paging support to my web projects. This is very bad practice and I figured it was time to stop. Now I know enough SQL to make a SELECT command (if I have a program that can generate it for me :P) so I didn't even know where to BEGIN with this one.

    Thankfully, the knowlegable folks over at 4GuysFromRolla.com have already done the work for me and gave detailed steps in this handy tutorial that made creating the paging stored procedure a SNAP!

    Thanks to their detailed tutorial I was able to ...

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  • February 14

    Select Query: Retrieve Fixed Number of Rows Part 2

    Posted Under: Tags: SQL

    In my last entry, I touched on a way to dynamically select a specific number of rows from a table in a SELECT SQL query. It works great if you are going to supply the value directly when you call the procedure. But what if you are using a static value that is stored in the database itself? I have a Settings table that stores Property/Value pairs, and one of those properties is the NumItems that I want to retrieve from the SELECT query!

    I could create a public shared property that will retreive the value from the database, ...

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  • February 13

    Select Query: Retrieve Fixed Number of Rows

    Posted Under: Database Development Tags: SQL

    As I'm beginning work on my senior project, I have discovered the need to select a specific number of rows from a SELECT query in SQL Server 2000. Although the new 2005 version has the built in ability to pass a variable for the TOP clause, no such functionality exists in SQL SERVER 2000. Fortunately I found a great resource showing various ways to accomplish it. The best one in my opinion is to pass the variable into the SET ROWCOUNT command, which can take a variable as a value:

     


    CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.getFoo
    @top INT
    AS
    BEGIN
    SET ROWCOUNT ...

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