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Figure 7-3: The New Cliptext Library window.
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Chapter 7: Maintaining a Code Library
This will create a new entry on the cliptext dropdown menu, called Transact SQL
Clips. Click on it and you'll see that the list of selections is empty, but we can now start
adding useful snippets of code that are likely to be needed in numerous places within
your development project. One such example, shown in Listing 7-8, is the classic table
of numbers, or tally table. It's used in all sorts of ways to manipulate data in an efficient
manner within T-SQL. Usually, it's a better design to simply create a physical tally table,
but that's not always possible, so this small, temporary tally table may still come in handy.
SELECT TOP 10000
IDENTITY( INT,1,1 ) AS n
INTO #Nums
FROM master.dbo.syscolumns sc1
CROSS JOIN master.dbo.syscolumns sc2 ;
Listing 7-8: A simple tally table.
To get this code snippet into our Transact SQL Clips library, return to the library, rightclick
inside the empty space and select Add from the menu to open the Add Cliptext
Item window. Then simply add a meaningful title (e.g. "Tally Table") and then type or
copy Listing 7-8 into the Text body box. Once you've clicked the OK button, the snippet
will be saved to your cliptext library and available for use the next time you're working
on a script in EditPlus. You can drag and drop the entries from the cliptext library into a