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  • RE: Request help with a query

    Like many jobs, it's really simple if you have the right tool. In this case the right tool is the ROW_NUMBER() function. By partitioning on the...

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  • RE: Conditional FK

    I don't speak for anyone else at SSC, only myself.

    But in my opinion you really should make the effort to cut-and-paste your question here at SSC.

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  • RE: File purge maintenance plan

    That doesn't tell us much....

    When I search on "business days" I find pages of entries. There may not be one that says precisely "Find Last Business Day Of...

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  • RE: File purge maintenance plan

    Did looking at any of the forums or articles on business days answer that question for you?

    Do you currently have a calendar table?

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  • RE: "Factorial" query.

    Thanks, Drew. I just took a look at that, and results are promising. If WITH CUBE doesn't get me all the way there, it's still...

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  • RE: File purge maintenance plan

    igloo,

    To put this in plain English, the date you want is the last businessday of the previous month.

    Is that correct or not?

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  • RE: File purge maintenance plan

    I've seen a lot of good discussions in here about business days calculations. Do a quick search on "Business Days" in the upper right hand corner and...

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  • RE: File purge maintenance plan

    I said it was a start. I presumed you could parse the data once you had it in a table. I believe you can...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Some people spent most of that day in blissful ignorance.

    I saw the new just before I was about to leave for work, and was stunned. Hours later...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul got 8000, I think.

    Can someone point me to a good write up on IF... ELSE issues?

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  • RE: Subquery in Case When that can produce multiple results for IN query

    It can't happen to the first query because there is no WHERE clause. The second two queries are, or should be, mutually exclusive based on the IF logic....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Going.........

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Going.....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Who wants post #8000?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Good point, Roy. Why don't you post it over in the forum itself, so the OP can see it and make it part of the discusson there, instead...

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