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Sorry if I sound ignorant but I'm new to SQL. I'm using SQL Server 2008. Basically I have a dbo object that displays a list of items, and when I hit "execute" the list refreshes with the most current data.
My question is this: is there a way to set this to execute automatically every minute or so while the table display is open? I plan on sharing out the view of the database so that people can see how far along the DB is before attempting to query it.
Hopefully that makes sense. I tried Google'ing but this seems like a rather vague topic or I'm just too confused to understand what some of these sites are saying. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Clarification:
By "dbo object" I meant a table (I think?). For example it's named dbo.Bridge, and when I right click it I click "edit top 200 rows" to see the data, and then I click the red exclamation mark at the top of SQL Server 2008 to "Execute", which causes the table to update

Answer 1

If you're in SQL Server Management Studio or Visual Studio SQL Server Explorer then you won't be able to do it. You can set delays to execute, however:
WHILE (1 = 1)
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
select * from [test_p]
WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:02'
END
This will keep appending onto the existing results, however, that is just a limitation of the software. It isn't meant to do things like this. You're better off just writing a simple script or view to execute every so often and display the data in some other way.

Answer 2

Try using waitfor, something like:
waitfor delay '000:01:00'
select * from MyTable
go 30
This will run the select 30 times, waiting a minute between each run.
(borrowed from Automatically refresh a query in ms sql server management studio?).
Another option would be to drop the query into a connection in an excel spreadsheet (for example), and set the background refresh options (workbook connections --> properties). This is most likely easier than keeping something running all day in sql server.
Edit: If GO does not work for you, check in options to see what word/character is set as your Batch Separator and replace GO with that word.