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-- Temporary table to store the results CREATE TABLE #results ( site NVARCHAR(250), questionid INT, title NVARCHAR(250), viewcount INT ); -- We'll need (at least) one INSERT statement for each site, they'll end up in this variable DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(MAX) = ''; -- Generate INSERT statements: -- - Use the database's `name` to indicate the site (this can be converted to site name later on) -- - Fully qualify table names SELECT @sql = @sql + 'INSERT INTO #results' + N' SELECT TOP 1 ''' + name + ''', p.Id, p.Title, p.ViewCount FROM ' + QUOTENAME(name) + '.dbo.Posts AS p ORDER BY ViewCount DESC;' FROM sys.databases WHERE database_id > 5 -- that's where the site databases begin AND name NOT LIKE '%.Meta' AND name NOT LIKE '%_Temp'; -- these are used during the weekly SEDE refresh -- Execute SQL with INSERT statements EXEC (@sql); -- Site details, cf. https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/359795/295232 CREATE TABLE #Sites (URL NVARCHAR(100), SiteName NVARCHAR(100), DatabaseName NVARCHAR(50)); -- fetch Markdown for post containing table with site details DECLARE @md NVARCHAR(MAX); SELECT TOP 1 @md = Text FROM [StackExchange.Meta].dbo.PostHistory WHERE PostId = 359796 AND PostHistoryTypeId = 5 ORDER BY CreationDate DESC; -- split Markdown on pipe symbol CREATE TABLE #TableEntries (ID INT IDENTITY(1, 1), Value NVARCHAR(100)); INSERT INTO #TableEntries (Value) SELECT LEFT(TRIM(VALUE), 100) FROM STRING_SPLIT(@md, '|') WHERE LEN(TRIM(REPLACE(REPLACE(VALUE, CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), ''))) > 0; -- 'pivot' - we have to discard the introductory text, headers and horizontal lines INSERT INTO #Sites SELECT t0.Value, t1.Value, t2.Value FROM #TableEntries AS t0 INNER JOIN #TableEntries AS t1 ON t0.Id + 1 = t1.Id INNER JOIN #TableEntries AS t2 ON t0.Id + 2 = t2.Id WHERE t0.Id >= 8 -- that's where the real content starts AND t0.Id % 3 = 2; -- Present the results by joining them with the sites table SELECT SiteName AS 'site', CONCAT(URL, '/q/', questionid, '|', title) AS 'link', viewcount FROM #Results AS r INNER JOIN #Sites AS s ON r.Site = s.DatabaseName ORDER BY viewcount; -- Drop temporary tables DROP TABLE #results; DROP TABLE #sites;