Create a view dynamically

Question

I would like to create a view dynamically based on “Employee” table
A view in each database should contain every column in “Employee” table except column called “year”. “Employee” table exists in every database but has different columns except “year” column ,so
the employee view should contain different columns based on which database you create a view
How can I create a view dynamically for each database? I am using SQL server 2008 R2

Answer 1

Try this... (Note the @Debug parameter is there to allow you to preview the code before you create the view... 1 to view the dynamically generated code, 0 tt simply execute it.)
DECLARE
@DeBug BIT = 1,
@ColumnString VARCHAR(MAX),
@sql VARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT
@ColumnString = COALESCE(@ColumnString + ',' + CHAR(10) + CHAR(9), '') + c.COLUMN_NAME
FROM
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS c
JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES t ON c.TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME AND c.TABLE_SCHEMA = t.TABLE_SCHEMA
WHERE 1 = 1
AND t.TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
AND c.TABLE_NAME = 'Employee'
AND c.COLUMN_NAME <> 'Year'
ORDER BY
c.ORDINAL_POSITION
SET @sql = '
CREATE VIEW dbo.v_Employee
AS
SELECT
' + @ColumnString + '
FROM dbo.Employee'
IF @DeBug = 1
BEGIN
PRINT (@sql)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
EXEC (@SQL)
END
HTH,
Jason
Jason Long