In the future. please provide DDL and sample data as per http://www.aspfaq.com/etiquette.asp?id=5006

Renaming the temporary table to a alias that does not begin with the @ symbol seems to solve...

Is there some reason for making the solution to such a simple problem so complicated ?

You can use the CASE statement or a two line UDF.

alter FUNCTION dbo.udf_IsShiftValid

(@StartTime datetime

, @EndTime...

The "self-blocking" condition will also appear after installing SQL Server Service Pack 4.

See "The blocked column in the sysprocesses table is populated for latch waits after you install SQL Server...

Hey Jeff:

I think we have all had to deal with Clients who have decided to impose an architecture where not all ramifications have been considered.

When you present a solution...

Is there some reason that you are using non-standard SQL such as ISNULL instead of COALESCE and CONVERT instead of CAST ?

The SQL originally posted will run unchanged under DB2,...

Below is a really stupid solution but it does work under your restrictions.

Use your existing Dynamic SQL solution to generate a stored procedure for every possible combination of the bitmask....

Please provide DDL and sample data. See http://www.aspfaq.com/etiquette.asp?id=5006 for instructions.

Here is an untested solution:

select MyTable.Product_Number

, MyTable.Qty_low

, COALESCE( MIN (H.Qty_low) - 1 , 999999999) from MyTable

Left outer join

MyTable as H

on H.Product_Number...

Good catch of the bad algorithm and the elegant solution.

In the future, please post create table and insert statements.

How about this SQL (an index on Users.email is recommended)

select email, product_id, product_status

, MIN (username)

Into GoodUsers

FROM ( SELECT email, product_id

,...

select Year(DateSubmitted) as SubmittedYear

, DATENAME ( mm , DateSubmitted ) as SubmittedMonth

, count(*) as ApplCount

from Applications

where DateSubmitted between @MonthStartDate and @MonthEndDate

group by Year(DateSubmitted)

, Month(DateSubmitted)

, DATENAME (...

The calculation is relatively simple:

Take the day of the month for the date and divide by seven (as this is integer calculations, truncation will occur) to get the number of...

Try:

select country.country AS [Country],

orders.ref_number AS [Ref #],

orders.open_date AS [Date],

orders.Description AS [Description]

, COUNT(*) -- NEW

FROM orders

left join users orders.userid = users.id

left join country users.countryid = country.id

-- NEW START

GROUP BY country.country...

Regarding, "You missed the case when 2 or more shareholders are the largest", should not this section of the SQL handle that case?

select ContractParty.ContractId

, MIN(PartyId) AS PartyId

from ContractParty

join (select ContractParty.ContractId

,...

Here is a set-based method based to assign the rounding amount to the party with the largest share and if two parties have equal shares, then the one with the...

If this is a one-time and manual process, open a command window and enter

isql -L

If this is on-going in a program, you can use SQL DMO:

Dim namX As NameList

Set...