richard.noordam (11/28/2012)
i do have to say, you should give yourself a bit more credit, as our private message indicated you did understand my problem, and did suggest a potential solution, which did indeed change the approach i was using for that section of the problem....to a 75% decrease in run time as well.
and it's beginning to apease my need of a bit more elegant solution. 😉
THANKS!!!
Thanks Richard. It still uses a cursor but it is better at least. As I said in our PM the problem in helping come up with a generic solution is the language required to explain it is sql. And since we didn't have ddl to work with I couldn't write said sql. It would be really cool of you to post the solution I sent you (I didn't save a copy of it myself). That way anybody in the future who stumbles on this thread will be able to see a way to solve it. 😀
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