sql-server-2000

I wonder if the SQL geniuses amongst us could lend me a helping hand. I have a column VersionNo in a table Versions that contains 'version number' values like VersionNo --------- 1.2.3.1 1.10.3.1 1.4.7.2 etc. I am looking to sort this, but unfortunately, when I do a standard order by , it is treated as a string, so the order comes out as VersionNo --------- 1.10.3.1 1.2.3.1 1.4.7.2 Intead of the following, which is what I am after: VersionNo --------- 1.2.3.1 1.4.7.2 1.10.3.1 So, what I need to do is to sort by the numbers in reverse order (e.g. in a.b.c.d, I need to sort by d,c,b,a to get the

I have a stored procedure which executes a select statement. I would like my results ordered by a date field and display all records with NULL dates first and then the most recent dates. The statement looks like this: SELECT a,b,c,[Submission Date] FROM someView ORDER BY [Submission Date] ASC Now this will display all records with NULL Submission Dates first, but when I get to rows that have date values in them, they are not the most recent dates in the view. If I replace ASC with DESC, then I get the dates in the the order I want, but the NULL values are at the bottom of my result set. Is

Is it true that SQL Server 2000, you can not insert into a table variable using exec? I tried this script and got an error message EXECUTE cannot be used as a source when inserting into a table variable. declare @tmp TABLE (code varchar(50), mount money) DECLARE @q nvarchar(4000) SET @q = 'SELECT coa_code, amount FROM T_Ledger_detail' INSERT INTO @tmp (code, mount) EXEC sp_executesql (@q) SELECT * from @tmp If that true, what should I do? N.B. - this question and answer relate to the 2000 version of SQL Server. In later versions, the restriction on INSERT INTO @table_variable ... EXEC ... were

I want to find all column names in all tables in all databases . Is there a query that can do that for me? The database is Microsoft SQL Server 2000. KM. Try this: select o.name,c.name from sys.columns c inner join sys.objects o on c.object_id=o.object_id order by o.name,c.column_id With resulting column names this would be: select o.name as [Table], c.name as [Column] from sys.columns c inner join sys.objects o on c.object_id=o.object_id --where c.name = 'column you want to find' order by o.name,c.name Or for more detail: SELECT s.name as ColumnName ,sh.name+'.'+o.name AS ObjectName ,o.type

Is it possible to make efficient queries that use the complete regular expression feature set. If not Microsoft really should consider that feature. For SQL Server 2000 (and any other 32 bit edition of SQL Server), there is xp_pcre , which introduces Perl compatible regular expressions as a set of extended stored procedures. I've used it, it works. The more recent versions give you direct access to the .NET integrated regular expressions (this link seems to be dead, here is another one: MSDN: How to: Work with CLR Database Objects ). The answer is no, not in the general case, although it might