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  • RE: How to use a year and month fields to get a range of records

    pietlinden (4/28/2015)


    Save yourself the headache. Store the dates as dates, not as two columns with numbers. Then you can do date math really easily, index columns and all...

  • RE: How to use a year and month fields to get a range of records

    I think you are looking for (I'm calling your Year column "yearCol" and month column "monthCol":

    WHERE

    (yearCol = 2014 AND monthCol >= 9) -- All dates in year...

  • RE: Matching two Data Sets

    Using the DDL and example data that you provided can you provide an example of what the correct output would look like?

  • RE: Is it worth to pursue a C# cert for a SQL Dev focused career path?

    Getting a cert should not hurt you in any way. That said, I learned C# about 12/13 years ago because, at the time I wanted to be a .NET web...

  • RE: XML Data retrieval

    The @ sign is used for referring to XML attributes. You are looking for the value of the Element.

    Below is the code that will get you what you are...

  • RE: What is a "set-based loop?"

    dwain.c (4/27/2015)


    Alan.B (4/27/2015)


    Jeff Moden (4/26/2015)


    Alan.B (4/26/2015)


    Over the past year I have heard some folks around here talk about a "set based loop". What's that all about? Can someone provide an...

  • RE: What is a "set-based loop?"

    Gary Harding (4/27/2015)


    Jeff Moden (4/26/2015)


    You're seriously aware of one of the more famous Pseudo-Cursors there is... a SELECT that uses a Tally Table.

    When I first saw this type of usage...

  • RE: What is a "set-based loop?"

    Jeff Moden (4/26/2015)


    Alan.B (4/26/2015)


    Over the past year I have heard some folks around here talk about a "set based loop". What's that all about? Can someone provide an example?

    There are...

  • RE: Noob Powershell String Parsing Question

    I figured it out...

    $myArray =@()

    foreach ($item in $TestLocations) { $myArray += $item.LineNumber }

  • RE: Compare column in two tables

    dwain.c (4/20/2015)


    Interesting solutions there gentleman, but regardless of how you set up your PRIMARY KEY/INDEXing, might this not be just a tad simpler?

    SELECT name, =MAX()

    FROM

    (

    SELECT name,...

  • RE: Compare column in two tables

    DonlSimpson (4/22/2015)


    Alan.B (4/21/2015)


    Minnu (4/21/2015)


    Hi Team,

    The solution provided by are working fine..

    but there is a change in my result.

    my request is

    if a record_1 is in Table_A and Table_B, then

    output...

  • RE: ? on parsing XML field

    Read Paul Whites articles about APPLY, they are the best out there IMHO. These are the two article that really helped me understand APPLY:

    Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1)[/url]

    Understanding and...

  • RE: ? on parsing XML field

    -- a db we both have

    USE tempdb

    GO

    -- create your table

    IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb.dbo.xdocuments') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE dbo.xdocuments

    GO

    CREATE TABLE dbo.xdocuments(xid int not null, yourxmlcolumn xml not null);

    GO

    -- insert a couple records

    INSERT...

  • RE: Transpose Rows to columns

    Luis and Sean beat me to it... I was going to add, here's a good article on this subject:

    Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns[/url]

  • RE: Need To Improve View Performance

    J Livingston SQL (4/22/2015)


    Alan.B (4/22/2015)


    This is what I came up with:

    SELECT

    ab.AddressCode,

    AddressInstance = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (Partition by ab.AddressCode ORDER BY (SELECT (NULL))),

    ab.PostCode,

    ...

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