You know, someone should mention (for the lurkers), that Jeff actually paid attention to the Corporate Culture before "letting loose". He didn't just do it without having some foresight...

Jack,

Sort transform? Not sure what you mean by that. I don't see a Sort transform task.

As far as precedence goes, I have my Source (where it requests for...

TheSQLGuru said:

Brandie, you are totally off the mark. Do whatever you can to make the most money so you can live a better life and do/enjoy the things...

Roy,

Have you ever thought about talking to your boss about this? Ask him why you've stopped getting recognition?

It could be he has higher expectations of you since that moment...

BTW, the OP mentioned he applied for this job because he has to pay the mortgage. I notice, however, he didn't mention at all whether or not he's actually...

Amen to that!

I...

Mark said:

Dear Ms. Gila Monster,

NO, I am not being honest about my lack of knowledge of SQL Server! Think about it!! If my resume is junior level, nobody will even...

FYI, I know I need to reverse the BeginDate in the above code with the DateAdd. But it was when I got to the AND part of the WHERE...

Okay, but we're still running under the assumption that @StartDate and @EndDate are constants set by the coder/end user. What if they're dynamic?

I have a situation where I actually...

That's what I'm wondering, Ruben. I asked that in an earlier post and haven't seen a response yet.

I can't think of a good way to optimize that one. ...

If you want to go with Jeremy's suggestion, you can also throw an index on the Temp table to speed your searching. Though, it might not be worth it.

Regardless,...

Matt,

You actually have a separate DB to do the scrubbing?

Hmmm. I didn't think about that idea. Originally I was going to use staging tables in the DW, but...

The most common function I use in a WHERE clause is a convert. Usually "WHERE Convert(char(10),ModifiedOn,101) = Convert(char(10),GetDate(),101)". Usually because I'm in the middle of a data update...

Hmm. The flaw with the variable idea is if there are no records yet, even if you use an isnull(max(customerkey),0), it will fail the task as unable to set...

The mainframe data for customer names is close. Firstname is 10 characters, LastName is 15 characters and they keep middle initials (1 character) that we don't track in SQL....