I'm trying to assign rows in a table to a random variable entirely in Transact SQL (This is MS SQL Server 2000, sp3). I've got it working perfectly except I can't use a variable inside my subquery ...

this will return: "(1 row(s) affected)" But now I need to know, what data was actually inserted? SQL Server has answered this question in 2005 with the OUTPUT statement: This will return a dataset ...

As I've said on numerous occasions (and summed up here), speeding up business applications comes down to reducing the number of trips to the database and optimizing your server-side data access once ...