• Sean Lange (4/4/2013)


    ScottPletcher (4/4/2013)


    SELECT RefNumber

    FROM #Data d

    GROUP BY RefNumber

    HAVING

    COUNT(DISTINCT EntryType) = 3 AND

    MAX(CASE WHEN EntryType NOT IN ( 0, 2, 11 ) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) = 0

    Nice one Scott. I knew something along these lines but it just wasn't coming to me.

    🙂 Yeah, the query plan is rather ugly, but to me that's just a weakness of the optimizer: it should be able o better optimize that code, and resolve the query in a single pass of the table.

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