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Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger

I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server Central. I realized there isn’t a documentation note on how many parameters can be included. I decided to test.

This post looks at the tests and results.

Tl;dr It appears 3925 is the most arguments.

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.

Building a Script

Since I want to know where things fail, I decided to make a short T-SQL script that tests increasing numbers of parameters. This script builds a dynamic CHOOSE() select using a…

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