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SQL syntax

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May 27, 2010 at 10:20 pm

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malleswarareddy_m SSCertifiable Points: 5847 More actions · Answer 1

I did not understand this question.in question it shows that to select wrong sytax.but all resturns table data without any error.then i did not found the wrong answer.so i applied three answers.got my point.

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mohammadk-1135894 Hall of Fame Points: 3759 More actions · Answer 2

Question was "Which of these SQL statements is correct?". Since all the SQL statements are correct then you have to check all the three answers.

Henrico Bekker One Orange Chip Points: 27652 More actions · Answer 3

The question was:

"Which of these SQL statements is correct? Please guess error message for those stements which are wrong. (select all that apply)"

So 1st you have to select all the statements that are correct, then guess the error statements?

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Jinesh-I SSC Enthusiast Points: 134 More actions · Answer 4

I have been using

select *from table_name in SSMS 2005, since 2 years & it works fine.

Please try once.

Jinesh.

mohammadk-1135894 Hall of Fame Points: 3759 More actions · Answer 5

Hi, It seems my question was little confusing. but I want to ask which of these SQL statement are right?

So all of the SQL statements was right!!! so you are rightly using the sytatement "select *from table_name"

Sorry for the confusion.

emginet-874462 SSC Veteran Points: 217 More actions · Answer 6

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May 28, 2010 at 12:42 am

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Hi All the querys are correct

sharath.chalamgari SSCertifiable Points: 5680 More actions · Answer 7

all the query works without any error

You could have provided the a 4th option which says that all works without any error.

confusing :hehe:

Carlo Romagnano SSC-Insane Points: 22682 More actions · Answer 8

???????????????????????????????????

😎

Try this:

select*from sysobjects order by 1desc

No space in 1desc

Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64790 More actions · Answer 9

I agree with others that the second sentence of the question: "Please guess error message for those stements which are wrong. (select all that apply)" gave the impression that we had to check which answers would result in an error message.

Otherwise an intrigueing question about an interesting bit of information that, I hope, nobody will ever use in practice. 🙂 I'm hoping to see more questions from you in the future.

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J.Faehrmann SSC Eights! Points: 957 More actions · Answer 10

SELECT*FROM[sysobjects]ORDER BY 1desc

or even

EXEC('SELECT*FROM[sysobjects]ORDERBY1desc')

welcome to SQL golfing - omg LOL

The second thing is especialy bad, play with the order by to see why 😀

Ronald H SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4053 More actions · Answer 11

Carlo Romagnano (5/28/2010)
Try this:
select*from sysobjects order by 1desc
No space in 1desc

I've seen that too before, same like this:

declare @a int set @a=1select @a

However, select1 or select@a won't work. It seems that a keyword preceded by an integer always works. I would definitely avoid using it though, it only confuses me.

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Carlo Romagnano SSC-Insane Points: 22682 More actions · Answer 12

EXEC('SELECT*FROM[sysobjects]ORDERBY1desc')

In this case the "order by" clause is missing

ORDERBY1desc is the alias of [sysobjects]

ziangij SSCrazy Eights Points: 8066 More actions · Answer 13

I've seen that too before, same like this:
declare @a int set @a=1select @a
However, select1 or select@a won't work. It seems that a keyword preceded by an integer always works. I would definitely avoid using it though, it only confuses me.

agreed, it just increases confusion.

However was wondering, when SSMS executes the query, it would have to do some effort to remove spaces between the words 🙂

vk-kirov SSCertifiable Points: 7686 More actions · Answer 14

ziangij (5/28/2010)
However was wondering, when SSMS executes the query, it would have to do some effort to remove spaces between the words 🙂

SSMS itself does not execute queries because it is a client application. SSMS divides input text into batches, sequentially sends those batches to SQL Server, and displays received results. No spaces are added or removed while sending batches to the server. You can use SQL Server Profiler to see it.