Category Archives: SQL Server
SQL Server – Generating Date Range With CTE
My job was to create a report for monthly totals of a specific year. It will compute monthly totals from April 1 of that year to March 31 of the next year and must return exactly 12 rows for that … Continue reading
SQL Server – Using Temporary Tables
The original query was almost perfect – it displays the daily totals for a given month. However, specs changed and they need to add the grand total to the last row. Then another specs for the MAX and MIN rows. … Continue reading
SQL Server – Dynamic Order By Clause
Yes, I’m too busy for SQL scripting job these recent weeks. I have a union select query that needed to be sorted per union but since it is not allowed to have order by in my unions, I have to … Continue reading
SQL Server Import/Export to CSV
There are tools that will help you in importing or exporting CSV files to and from SQL Server databases. However, using them will slow you down for a factor of 20 because of those click, next, next, next wizard thing. … Continue reading
SQL Server – Select Nth Row
Seems like I’m now stuck with .NET development and the current tasks where developing SQL scripts. One of the spec was to return the first record, second record and third record as columns for a row. I know how to … Continue reading




