I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

I know in Oracle you can use DBA_TAB_COLUMNS (or ALL_TAB_COLUMNS). My SQL Server knowledge is very rusty, but can't you use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS view?

I need for a quick one time demo to generate a bunch (500,000) clients names in a client table under SQL Server 2000.<BR><BR>Everything else in the table is loaded, the clients just don't have names.

alias specifies an alias for table-name. sql-expression is described in sql-expression. table-name can be one of the following: the name of a PROC SQL table. the name of a SAS data view. a ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...