sqldba_newbie (10/30/2012)
GSquared (10/30/2012)
I'm not clear on what you're asking for help on. I see the code, I see you want to do something in a Join statement instead of "at the end" (do you mean in a Where clause?), but it's not clear to me what precisely you are asking.As an aside, you can simplify your drop-checks on the temp tables. Instead of "if exists ....", just "if object_id(N'tempdb..#MyTempTable') is not null" works just fine, and takes less steps. Microscopically faster, since you're already checking the object_id function in your Where clause, too.
I need to either re-write this portion or something else.
AND Substring(@dlm + r.Fve+ @dlm, t.ID - 1, 1) = @dlm -- i need to move this on the top where there is join on # Sid table.
AND Ltrim(Rtrim(Substring(@dlm + r.Fve+ @dlm, t.ID, Charindex(@dlm, @dlm + r.Fve+ @dlm, t.ID) - t.ID))) = f.Fve
And what is it you're trying to accomplish by moving it? Just have it in a different part of the query because it'll look better? Enforce some rule on the data? Speed up the query?
I'm sure the query is clear to you, but it's not to me. You know what the query is for, you know the business rules that apply to it, you know what end result you want from it and you can look at the tables and data in your database, I don't have any of those things available. Nobody here does.
I'd love to help, but I can't even tell where to start.
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