• charu.verma (12/11/2009)


    Im not aware of the set based method..Can you pls suggest how is that used?

    Like this:

    DROP TABLE #Tbl1

    DROP TABLE #Tbl2

    DROP TABLE #Tbl3

    CREATE TABLE #Tbl1 ([sid] int, cid int)

    CREATE TABLE #Tbl2 (oid int, tnum varchar(10))

    CREATE TABLE #Tbl3 (rec_id int identity, otnum varchar(10), ntnum varchar(10), [sid] int)

    INSERT INTO #Tbl1 ([sid], cid)

    SELECT 1, 10 UNION ALL

    SELECT 2, 20 UNION ALL

    SELECT 3, 30 UNION ALL

    SELECT 4, 40 UNION ALL

    SELECT 5, 50 UNION ALL

    SELECT 6, 60 UNION ALL

    SELECT 7, 70

    INSERT INTO #Tbl2 (oid, tnum)

    SELECT 10, '100 0' UNION ALL

    SELECT 20, '2000' UNION ALL

    SELECT 30, '300 0' UNION ALL

    SELECT 40, '4000' UNION ALL

    SELECT 50, '500 0'

    -- Step1:I need to select tbl1.sid using a join of tbl1 & tbl2 based on tbl1.cid=tbl2.oid-working fine

    -- step2:All the selected sid's need to be inserted into Tbl3-woking fine

    INSERT INTO #Tbl3 ([sid])

    SELECT tbl1.[sid]

    FROM #tbl1 tbl1

    INNER JOIN #tbl2 tbl2 ON tbl1.cid = tbl2.oid

    -- step4:insert each updated record into Tbl3-stuck???

    INSERT INTO #Tbl3 ([sid], otnum)

    SELECT oid, REPLACE(tnum, ' ', '')

    FROM #Tbl2 Tbl2

    WHERE tnum LIKE '% %'

    -- step3:After this I need to run an update query to remove spaces from tbl2.tnum &

    UPDATE #Tbl2

    SET tnum = REPLACE(tnum, ' ', '')

    WHERE tnum LIKE '% %'

    SELECT * FROM #Tbl3

    SELECT * FROM #Tbl2

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