In my daily work, I find myself writing a lot of one-off SQL scripts to handle various data issues. In particular, I've had to tweak existing sets of metadata with scripts that look something like the following: DECLARE @SomeId INT
DECLARE @SomeOtherId INT
SELECT @SomeId = SomeTableId
FROM SomeTable
WHERE SomeName = 'Something'
SELECT @SomeOtherId = SomeOtherTableid
FROM SomeOtherTable
WHERE SomeOtherName = 'SomethingElse'
IF NOT EXISTS(
SELECT 1
FROM SomeMetadataTable
WHERE Name = 'MetadataName')
BEGIN
INSERT INTO SomeMetadataTable
(Name, Property1, Property2)
VALUES
('MetadataName', @SomeId, @SomeOtherId)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
UPDATE SomeMetadataTable
SET Property1 = @SomeId
, Property2 = @SomeOtherId
WHERE Name = 'MetadataName'
END
Just writing a few of these gets to be tedious, and master script
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