It's official. Doing the delete in the Execute SQL Task rather than trying to filter the rows ahead of time is faster by 26 minutes.

WOW.

Of course, I'm sure it...

Glad I could help. @=)

Okay, the Execute SQL Task might be the way to go. Since your suggestion didn't seem to like me, I tried adding a Lookup to the first pipeline (right...

Okay. Just verifying. It never hurts to check every angle just to be sure. @=)

Not necessarily. What about the difference between signed & unsigned integers? If you have columns in your flat file connection defined as unsigned, this could be a problem.

Of...

Here's a question, what is your mapping on the Flat File Connection set up as? Is it set to a datatype that doesn't allow negative values?

BETWEEN has a very nasty habit of dropping records. I don't use it at all. I prefer Greater Than / Equal and Less Than or the reverse. ...

Frank,

Hmmm. Multicast doesn't like being put after my Merge. It comes up with a totally blank screen on both sides of the divide. Apparently it can't see...

Actually, I think Matt just hit it. I don't know why I couldn't see that. It's sitting right in front of me.

DOH!

Thanks, Matt. I think that'll work.

As...

Honestly, it sounds like the function is simply not reaching the first statement. It sounds like it's always evaluating the ELSE when other people run it.

Which doesn't make sense...

Michael,

You've almost got it.

I don't want to use option 1. I have too many records and I want to keep the column width down to what's necessary. However,...

Ann,

Can you post the table structures and some sample data for each table? This would help us help you test it.

And there's no actual physical table by the same name that might have different values than the function uses?

EDIT: And have you tried the stored procedure without a CTE? ...

Unfortunately, since I don't have the table structure you do (or the data), I can't test this. Have you verified the Execute permissions on the Function?

And is there another...

Given what BOL says about functions and variables, Frank's statement makes sense to me. Try building your function SELECT as a dynamic SQL Statement.

Do you know how to do...