Constructing a query at runtime with string concatenation operations and executing the query from that string.

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Using dynamic sql inside Oracle stored procedure

Assuming I have the following procedure CREATE PROCEDURE foo (table1_id IN TABLE1.table1_id%type, table1_val IN TABLE1.table1_value%type) AS SQL_UPDATE VARCHAR2(500) := ...
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Dropping a group of schemas with similar name patterns

Consider a situation where one need to perform a bunch of essentially identical operations, with the only variable being the name of some object. In my case, I need to drop some schemas, all of the ...
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double date conversion when adding partition

I want to create a procedure that adds new partition in a table partitioned by time. For this purpose I use following commands: s_until := to_char(sysdate+1,' SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'); ...
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Find all the SP's where a particular column is not updated

I want to find stored procedures where a particular column is not updated. As an example SP1: BEGIN UPDATE YourTable SET Foo = @Foo, Bar = @Bar WHERE Id = @Id ...
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Generate script to automate renaming of default constraints

Background: Some of our default column constraints were generated without explicit names, so we get fun names that vary from server to server like: DF__User__TimeZoneIn__5C4D869D I would prefer to ...
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Create index if it does not exist

I am working on a function that allows me to add an index if it does not exist. I am running into the problem that I cannot get a list of indexes to compare to. Any thoughts? This is a similar issue ...
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Schema for multiple identical queue tables

I am migrating a message processing application that was built on MSMQ to SQL Server 2012 (preferably Standard Edition). Messages are received and distributed via TCP/IP endpoints and the typical ...
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Why does this cursor produce results in the incorrect order?

I am writing some dynamic SQL to identify and, perhaps if I'm feeling crazy enough, automatically convert my NONCLUSTERED indexes into CLUSTERED indexes. The line ORDER BY 1,2,3 DESC; in the SQL ...
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Selecting just one table from Oracle view [closed]

I am creating a view to ease my manual selecting because I only want to fetch data from DB where it is meeting certain criteria which are present in several tables, so it is containing a lot of joins. ...
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Why you want to avoid Dynamic SQL in stored procedure?

I have heard one said you do not want to use Dynamic SQL. Can you give some concrete example or real-life example? Personally, I code it a few times in my database. I think it is OK because it's ...
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Bug in PL/pgSQL function creation

I don't know if this question better suits here or in SO ... This is a script that I'd like to launch (the code of the function was copied from a question on SO): \c mydb create or replace function ...
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sp_execute expects parameter '@handle' of type 'int'

I'm trying to check in a stored procedure if a table exists in my destination database. If it does not then I will create the table useing the information_schema tables from the source database. ...
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Inserting into three different tables, using foreign keys — 500000x each

We're working on refactoring many of our offline (python) scripts. I'm very new to any kind of SQL, but have been trying to learn as much as I can, especially in the performance field. We have a ...
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Stored Procedure to return dynamically created table data

Quick back story, we are working with an outside vendor that has a survey system. The system is not necessarily designed the best in that when you create a new survey and the system creates a new ...
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How to make a flexible service broker receive in a stored sql procedure, how to pass “FROM” parameter into receive

a while ago I asked a question about how to make begin dialog and send more flexible so that it can be embedded in a procedure that takes the to, from, parameters as sysname variables. Service Broker ...

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