Questions tagged [persisted-column]
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In a persisted field, how do you return the number of occurrences of a column within a different table's column
The following is required due to records being entered by 3rd parties in a web application.
Certain columns (such as Category) require validation including the one below. I have a table OtherTable with the allowed values.
I need to identify how…

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Changing all computed columns to persisted
I have the following query to check which columns of my database are computed and not persisted
select t.name, c.name
from sys.tables t
inner join sys.computed_columns c on c.object_id = t.object_id
where c.is_persisted = 0
Is there any easy query…

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Why is this Persisted field not calculating correctly - [FIELDA]='%BUILD%'
I have a persisted field in SQL Server 2008.
(case when [FIELDA]='%BUILD%' then CONVERT([bit],(1),(0)) else CONVERT([bit],(0),(0)) end)
FIELDA can contain 'LARGEBUILDING' , 'BUILDING', 'BUILDING MAJOR'm, so BUILDING can be anywhere in the…

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How can you format a persisted column as a padded integer string [SQL Server 2008]
What formula would I use in a persisted column so that I can add the two columns below together, the first must be padded to 5 characters:
ID (INT)
RefNum (STRING)
I went for format(ID,"00000") & RefNum, but it doesn't work, any ideas please?

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