Adding a Carriage Return to sql statement???

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Adding a Carriage Return to sql statement???

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Michelle-164472 SSCommitted Points: 1715 More actions · Answer 1

Yes, I do generate the code and then cut & paste into another window to execute...

The sql code using the REPLACE statement worked for what I need to do...

Thanks a lot for all of your assistance.

...Michelle

Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 2

Is this a one time deal or permanant maintenance of the DB?

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004409 More actions · Answer 3

Ummm.... why don't you just store it in a variable and execute it using EXEC or sp_ExecuteSQL ???

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 4

... or use Xp_ExecResultSet (works only for 2000, not for 2005).

Scott Coleman One Orange Chip Points: 27452 More actions · Answer 5

Once you appreciate that end-of-line is no more significant in T-SQL than space or tab, using multiline string literals will seem a lot clearer than concatenating char(13) everywhere. The color-coding tells you it's all one string, the fact that it's on two lines tells you there is a line break. You don't even have to worry about whether it should be char(13) or char(13) + char(10).

I know it's hard to believe, and I'm old enough to find it bewildering myself, but you do occasionally run into programmers who don't have "carriage return = char(13)" embedded in their DNA. I hate having to explain it.