• In order to help you, you're going to need to help us by following best practices for posting a question of this type:

    - Provide DDL (CREATE TABLE)

    - Provide consumable sample data (i.e., INSERTs)

    - Expected results from the sample data

    This article by Jeff Moden can help you to understand:

    Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help [/url]


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
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