Thank you all for your great feedbacks.

In this article I tried to illuminate things I didn't find in any other article. In order to find common differences between Variable...

You should understand what kind of data (and amount) you have in both servers (local and remote) when you're using linked server.

Sometimes you'd like to run the join on the...

The reason is tables are not ordered by definition and views are at the same category (RDBMS), if you need an ordered results you must specify "order by".

The solution of...

Part of upgrading to 2005 is rebuilding all indexes.

Try to analyze (dbcc showcontig or DMV) your indexes to verify this issue.

You can declare @Error as output and do something like that:

DECLARE @Error INT -- Output in procedure

SET @Error = 0

Begin Transaction

INSERT Table1 ...

Values ...

SET @Error = @@Error

If @Error <> 0

begin

 GOTO...

Can you add execution plan?

Are you running both from same source?

If you are running this procs on testing environment try to run sp_recompile / DBCC FREEPROCCACHE and let us know...

Try this one:

SELECT *

FROM tableX

WHERE ISNUMERIC(Quantity) = 0

I tried to calculate your function with:

SELECT @DayDiff = DATEDIFF(DAY,@startdate,@EndDate)

and then dividing by 7 (week days) and ceiling etc.

My code looks "cleaner" but when I checked performance it looks the...

what is your table name? Seems that you wrote column name instead table name.

Are you sure you need the query above and not this one:

UPDATE providerlistforfirstq...

You can use the results as derived table / join table within update statement

One way to find this information is:

DBCC SHOWCONTIG (Table_Name) WITH TABLERESULTS

This is another way to do it:

-- This code will be parameter in procedure

declare @top tinyint

set @top = 10

-- Declare variable

declare @sql NVARCHAR(4000)

-- This is your code

SET @sql =   'SELECT...

This code might help you:

-- Simulate data

SET NOCOUNT ON

CREATE TABLE #DUP (ID INT IDENTITY(1,1), BP INT, SEQ INT, TYPE INT)

INSERT #DUP VALUES (100 ,1 ,1 )

INSERT #DUP VALUES (100, 2,...

You can find ObjId in the page header when running DBCC PAGE.

What about using function like that:

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CREATE FUNCTION udf_ConvertLDAPToDatetime (@TextToConvert nvarchar(50))

RETURNS DATETIME

AS

BEGIN

 DECLARE @RETURN_DATE DATETIME

 DECLARE @DATE DATETIME

 DECLARE @HOUR INT

 DECLARE @MINUTE INT

 DECLARE @SECOND INT

 SET @DATE = CONVERT(DATETIME, SUBSTRING(@TextToConvert,1,8),121)

 SET @HOUR = SUBSTRING(@TextToConvert,9,2)

 SET @MINUTE =...