• ChrisM@Work (8/14/2012)


    Here's an alternative using PARSENAME()

    SELECT

    bi.Building_Name,

    COUNT(di.DeviceNum) NumberOfDevices

    FROM #Building_Information bi

    INNER JOIN #Device_Information di

    ON PARSENAME(bi.Subnet,4) = PARSENAME(di.IP_Address,4)

    AND PARSENAME(bi.Subnet,3) = PARSENAME(di.IP_Address,3)

    AND PARSENAME(bi.Subnet,2) = PARSENAME(di.IP_Address,2)

    GROUP BY Building_Name;

    Only issue with using parsename() is that it is slow and will disallow the use of indexes on the joining columns if they exist.