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asilter
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 Posted - 2007-09-28 : 17:06:55
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| i want to have a user defined function or stored procedure(i don't know which one should be used, anyway!) which returns false if the table has no records, with the table name comes with a parameter.could you give a little code sample?thanx |
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dinakar
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2507 Posts |
Posted - 2007-09-28 : 17:26:26
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| you mean count(*) of table = 0 ?Dinakar Nethi************************Life is short. Enjoy it.************************http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/dinakar/ |
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asilter
Starting Member
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Posted - 2007-09-28 : 19:00:43
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| yes please. |
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dinakar
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2507 Posts |
Posted - 2007-09-28 : 19:06:55
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| IF tablename is dynamic you might have to use dynamic sql. Check out sp_ExecuteSQL in books on line. they have some sample code too.Dinakar Nethi************************Life is short. Enjoy it.************************http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/dinakar/ |
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Lumbago
Norsk Yak Master
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Posted - 2007-09-28 : 19:46:24
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Does the count have to be 100% accurate? If not then something like this could do the trick:SELECT [TableName] = so.name, [RowCount] = MAX(si.rows) FROM sysobjects so, sysindexes si WHERE so.xtype = 'U' AND si.id = OBJECT_ID(so.name) GROUP BY so.name ORDER BY 2 DESC --Lumbago"Real programmers don't document, if it was hard to write it should be hard to understand" |
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stored procedure returning info about a table