Hi - Post the actual table name and the actual column names in your "TableA".

Then I can show you how to get eliminate the dupes in your big...

Hello,

You can eliminate duplicates in Table A with SQL statement:

SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4, col5, col6, col7

FROM TableA

GROUP BY col1, col2, col3, col4, col5, col6, col7

This will return all unique...

Hello SG,

To correct your specific error: Must declare the scalar variable "@dbname",

change your code as shown below.

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set @sql =

'select p.sa_property_id, z.zipcode as sa_site_zip, z.state as sa_site_state, z.city as...

Hello Steve Hirsch - I also traverse between DB worlds.  Here are SQL Server equivalents to your Oracle query; for this simple a query they work the same.

SELECT a.field, b.field

FROM table1...

Hello,

Both the article and the comment by Lutz Albers were enlightening.

When I ran into this problem, I would solve it like this:

SELECT *

FROM a

LEFT OUTER JOIN

  (SELECT * FROM...

Hmm.  The Join to Employee Territories is a red herring. You're only updating the Employee table:

UPDATE dbo_Employees

SET dbo_Employees.LastName = "Leverling2"

WHERE EmployeeID=3;

If you were trying to profile a joined update,...

I like the idea of using variables instead of the quotes.  But not the part about the ASCII characters.  The solution below works best for me:

Declare @q char(1)

Set @q =...

I agree - the article was great. 

One link does work: http://tech.rssgroup.com/shapes/

Re: "The accompanying download includes the binary and configuration files necessary to experiment with shapes on your own." ...

Try this:

DECLARE @val CHAR(20), @v2 CHAR(40)

select LEN(@val), LEN(@v2)

SET @val = ' SSC is cool '

SET @v2 = @val + @val

select LEN(@val), LEN(@v2)

And this, for a different, non-intuitive result:

DECLARE @val nvarchar(20),...

Hello,

Using your table [TbTimes], you can run a CrossTab Query to get 1 line for each rider.

Heading Line: Rider Distance1 Distance2 ... etc, on colum for each distance

Data line 1:...

There are some critical differances between crosstab and rotate:

A. Rows: Crosstab creates 1 row of output for 1 or more rows of input. 

Rotate creates 1 row of output for...

Hello Abrahim,

This query has got to be for presentation (i.e. a report or a web screen), yes? If so, what's the target presentation app?   I'd try to do it there,...

Hello Luis Santos,

I agree with Antares686, a sample output -- particularly of the two lines that you want consolidated into 1 -- would make this easier to solve.  However, I'll...

Hello J M Davis,

You can also tell SQL to calculate the derived column before the join, by putting the selections for table2 in a sub-select:

  SELECT 

    table1.some_column

    ,...

Hello cgrunner,

The parsing-names problem has existed since names have been automated. I don't think it's susceptible to a technology quick-fix. Typical name data may include: honorific titles (DR., etc.), hyphenated...