Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/25/05 01:01

ric (rtavert@yahoo.com) writes:
>>>you can use Query Analyzer to generate a SELECT statement for the desired
>>>view...
>
> Is this something other than dragging over columns into the SELECT
> statement you're building?

I guess this is what Dan had in mind. Myself, when I need to do this, I
usually do a SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE 1 = 0 in text mode, copy and paste
the headers into Textpad, where I have a macro so I with a keypress can
replace the spaces with commas, and then cut and paste back.

There is a new product PromptSQL which claims to provide intellisense to
Query Analyzer. Since I am not fond of intellisense myself, I have not
tried it. But somehing that expands a * would be a great thing for such a
tool - maybe they have it?


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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