Can someone take over from me here please? I've had enough of trying to draw blood from a stone, maybe I'm phrasing things incorrectly?

As I've said repeatedly,...

One more try 😉

Sorry, but without DDL, sample data and expected results there isn't much I can do. ...

I'm going to re-iterate what I said before. . .

CURSORS and WHILE LOOPS are both generally bad, if you're tuning your query then maybe you should look at a more...

ckri (12/6/2011)

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that was quick - thanks a lot and thanks for introducing PARTITION

but I'm not sure ....

it seems to display the wrong row in example .... the row with 21...

MSBI Learner (12/6/2011)

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Yes – my motto is to improve the performance of my Stored Procedure. Yes – I can provide you the required information, would you mind to provide me...

CURSORS and WHILE LOOPS are both generally bad, if you're tuning your query then maybe you should look at a more set-based approach?

If you provide readily consumable sample data, DDL...

Fairly trivial.

BEGIN TRAN

--First, lets create some sample data

SELECT MSLINK, RAPP, LASTDATE, FILMNAME, OBS, ID

INTO #tvrapp_SampleData

FROM (SELECT 102141, '1279', '1995-02-02 00:00:00.000', '440-CA0010R-CA0020R.mpg', 22, 14422

UNION ALL...

Enjoyed that one, would've been even better on a Monday morning to get the juices flowing! 😀

Flabbergasted that so many people are getting it incorrect. . . I assumed that...

spin (12/5/2011)

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Hi All

i've created a table locally from a linked server view. When try to do a select * from .... i get

An error occurred while executing batch.

Error message...

Guess based on Gianluca's interpretation of your data: -

SELECT pvtData.DESCRION AS Team, pvtData.[Primary], pvtData.[Secondary],

pvtData.[Tertiary], pvtData.[Other]

FROM (SELECT DESCRION, CASE WHEN MBR_SEQ_NUM = 1

...

GSquared (12/1/2011)

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You can actually change the zero date at a server-level, so test it before you count on that. Won't matter if it's being used to strip parts off...

This might help.

Without sample data and DDL it's the best I can offer.

SELECT ID, name, content, previous_id

INTO #yourTable

FROM (SELECT 1, 'doc1.doc', 'abc', -1

UNION ALL...

Kwisatz78 (12/1/2011)

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Hi

Can anyone tell me what the 0 does in the following:

SELECT DATEDIFF(m, 0, '01/01/2011');

Does it indicate the start of time as far as SQL goes and if so what...

DECLARE @SQL AS VARCHAR(MAX)

SELECT @SQL = COALESCE(@SQL+ + CHAR(13), '') + 'EXEC msdb..sp_update_job @job_name = ''' + name + ''', @enabled = 0;' FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs

EXEC (@SQL)

I'd do what G-Squared suggested...