Script to get max dates on tables that contain a certain column.
This script will allow you to get maximum date associated with tables that contain a certain column.
2013-03-18 (first published: 2013-02-22)
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Aggregates
2012-11-05
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Cumulative Aggregates in SQL Server Reporting Services
In this tip, we will see how to build a report which shows the cumulative sales amount for the current month, current quarter (QTD) and current year (YTD) in a single crosstab (tablix) report, which makes it easy to compare the data.
2012-01-27
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Script to calculate the Median value for SQL Server data
The standard SQL language has a number of aggregate functions like: SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG, but a common statistics function that SQL Server does not have is a built-in aggregate function for median. The median is the value that falls in the middle of a sorted resultset with equal parts that are smaller and equal parts that are greater. Since there is no built-in implementation for the median, the following is a simple solution I put together to find the median.
2011-11-08
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2011-08-30
2,522 reads
SQL Function to get Max, Min values from given collection of values
This func returns the max value,min value and count of values from collection of values
2011-01-20 (first published: 2011-01-08)
1,779 reads
Pivoting, Unpivoting and Aggregating
We asked Phil Factor to write a nice simple quick-start guide about aggregation, pivoting and un-pivoting techniques. To do so, he takes us all the way from getting the data from a published source, transferring it to SQL Server, un-pivoting it, storing it in a relational table, aggregating it and finally pivoting the data in a variety of ways.
2009-11-18
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ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers