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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you, Tracy. How do you set SQL output to a file, in the method you are referring to?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, being new to this mailing list, does the NFB in Computer Science ever host virtual events over Zoom? If so, when is the next one? What topics are discussed?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">Tracy Carcione via NFBCS</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 23, 2020 6:54 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">NFB in Computer Science Mailing List</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:carcione@access.net">Tracy Carcione</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [NFBCS] SQL Server Management Studio and large amounts of data</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I usually know roughly what table I’m after, but I have paged down through long lists before, looking at what’s there.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, SQL has a name sysobjects, and another syscolumns, and you can use those to write a query to see what’s around. Don’t select all columns from all tables, though!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I found this query to get some column names from a particular table, which perhaps you can modify:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Select a.name as table_name</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>,b.name as col_name</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From sysobjects a,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Syscolumns b</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Where a.ID = b.ID</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And b.name like ‘%depar%’</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I like to set SQL output to a file when I’m testing or looking at something. For me, it’s much easier to look at a file than to try to look at the grid in SQL.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>HTH.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tracy</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From: NFBCS [mailto:nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Walker, Michael E. (UMSL-Student) via NFBCS</p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Monday, November 23, 2020 2:16 AM</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: NFBCS@nfbnet.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>Cc: Walker, Michael E. (UMSL-Student)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: [NFBCS] SQL Server Management Studio and large amounts of data</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you are using a screen reader, how do you most efficiently navigate large amounts of data? Suppose your database has over six hundred tables. One cannot use first letter navigation easily, since many table names begin with DBO. I might be browsing through the long list of tables, to get an idea of what the table name is, to write a query.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>NFBCS mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>NFBCS@nfbnet.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/michael.walker199014%40gmail.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>