Recently, I was working on a project when I came into a problem that I hadn’t dealt with before. You see I was working with a rather large table (200+ fields) and a corresponding archive table for it. The goal was to be able to populate a form with fields from either of the object types as essentially they were the same record type. Continue reading »
There are a number of different reasons that you would want to get your database results in a random order. I’ve had a number of different reasons to do this so far throughout my career, the first of which was in a simple T-SQL statement that we were pulling up a list of items that we wanted in a random order. Turns out that with T-SQL there is a really simple way to get your results in a random order. All you have to do is add the following to the end of your SQL statement. Continue reading »