Technical Article

Script to sort by columns that may include NULLs

If you sort by in ASC order by column that may include NULLs and empty strings ( if type is varchar), the records with nulls will always appear before any others.This script will show how to chagne this pattern and move all records with NULLs to the bottom of your recordset

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-05-23

208 reads

Technical Article

Retrieve default value for parameter in procedure

This procedure will return DEFAULT value for the parameter in the stored procedure. Usage: Use pubs go declare @Value varchar(30) exec _GetParamDefault 'random_password','@password_type',@value OUTPUT SELECT @VALUE Also accepts different versions, by default, if not specified, first version info retrieved. exec _GetParamDefault 'random_password;2','@password_type',@value

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-05-10

313 reads

Blogs

T-SQL Tuesday #176: That Piece of Technical Advice for the Past Me

By

DIVERSIFY! We devote a lot of time to mastering the technology that we are...

So You Want to Deploy Power BI Project files (PBIPs)?

By

Have you heard the news about the new Power BI Project files? Okay, maybe...

DBAs, Organizing Your SQL Scripts in Git

By

I wrote an article that was published on SQL Server Central on how to...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

7 sept, scheduled book

By philip.scott

Comments posted to this topic are about the item 7 sept, scheduled book

7 sept, schedlued article

By philip.scott

Comments posted to this topic are about the item 7 sept, schedlued article

6 sept, published book

By philip.scott

Comments posted to this topic are about the item 6 sept, published book

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 is built on ...?

See possible answers