Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to catch ...

CheckListItems CheckListItemId ItemName 1 name1 2 name2 3 name3 4 name4 5 name5 ... I can't seem to get the PIVOT syntax correct- it has to be dynamic as I don't know all the ItemNames (and there ...

PowerPivot with SQL Server 2008 R2 One of the prime-time features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is provided by the “Project Gemini” technology known as PowerPivot for “Self Service BI”. Working with ...

If you want to take a copy of one table and make a copy of it in another schema (under another username), you can use the SQL*Plus COPY command, or a simple <code>"create table foo as select * from ...

I have a SQL Script that produces the following pivot query:<BR><BR> <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">SELECT ClientID, FirstName, LastName, SSN, 05/01/2009],[05/02 ...

SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform (which is available as a Community Technology Preview [CTP] as of this writing), includes exciting ...