ChrisM@Work

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RE: pivot / unpivot

Hi and welcome to ssc.
There's an article for newcomers which you may find useful; http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/%5B/url%5D
If you take a little time to prepare a sample data script, forum users will...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 19, 2014 at 2:54 am

#1690187
RE: Help with Query Output

This will do it, but it's somewhat arbitrary:
ORDER BY b.displayorder, ISNULL(c.col1,2147483647) DESC
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 18, 2014 at 6:21 am

#1689868
RE: Help with Query Output

Why?
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 18, 2014 at 6:13 am

#1689864
RE: Help with Query Output

A simple query exactly described generates this dataset:
Col1col2col3#IDCol1col2displayorder#Col1col2col3
5C053#3131#515
6C061#1112#NULLNULLNULL
1C011#1112#111
3C031#1112#313
4C042#2123#414
2C022#2123#212
Here's a sample data script and a query constructed from your notes:
DROP TABLE #TableA
CREATE TABLE #TableA (Col1 INT, col2 VARCHAR(3), col3 INT)
INSERT INTO...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 18, 2014 at 4:57 am

#1689836
RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Greg Edwards-268690 (2/17/2014)
Ed Wagner (2/17/2014)
dwain.c (2/16/2014)
Ed Wagner (2/13/2014)
dwain.c (2/13/2014)
Jack Corbett (2/13/2014)
Glad no bare-chested pictures of Grant, or frankly anyone on the thread, have popped up here too.
I guess...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 17, 2014 at 6:39 am

#1689479
RE: Cursor and update

phineas629 (2/12/2014)
Thanks Luis,
I feel like I've been stuck in sql purgatory, just barely knowing enough to get by. I'm really hoping to make the leap to a real developer. I...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 13, 2014 at 2:34 am

#1688638
RE: Time Conversion Issue

abhas (2/11/2014)
Hi All,
I want to convert time into hours as per below format. Please guide.
For example – 2:15:00 would be computed as 2.25 HRS or 6:30:00 would show as...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 12, 2014 at 3:38 am

#1688251
RE: Please help to sort this

chetan.deshpande001 (2/10/2014)
@ ChrisM@Work - What you did is actually a easy way out. thanks for bursting my bubble ..This has prompted me to learn how APPLY works.. This is one...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 12, 2014 at 3:23 am

#1688248
RE: Multiples address lines on a single row. Pivot?

Nice work. I'd miss out the first view though - unless it's going to be used elsewhere, it's simply clutter:
SELECT RowID,
MAX(CASE WHEN LineNumber = 1 THEN DelAddr ELSE ''...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 12, 2014 at 3:19 am

#1688247
RE: INSERT INTO, EXCLUDING ONE COLUMN

hoseam (2/10/2014)
@chrism-2@Work
The end to end process is pretty much what I have said, I have products I need to clone. I have 10 tables, in any table I might need...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 12, 2014 at 2:58 am

#1688244
RE: Please help to sort this

ss.meghana8 (2/10/2014)
I have 2 columns colour,countof
How many colours?
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 10, 2014 at 8:50 am

#1687573
RE: Inserting end of month dates in table with variable # of months

;WITH MyData AS (
SELECT SUBTerms = 2, initialstartdate = CAST('2013-03-15' AS DATE) UNION ALL SELECT 4, '2013-01-15' UNION ALL SELECT 6, '2013-05-15'
)
-- MyData is a mockup of your existing result...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 10, 2014 at 7:12 am

#1687528
RE: SQL Query

kapil_kk (2/10/2014)
ChrisM@Work (2/10/2014)
balu.arunkumar (2/10/2014)
Hi This part shows error.
/*------------------------
SELECT*, SUM( Price ) OVER( Partition BY Customer_Name ORDER BY DatePurchased) AS Total_Till_Date
FROM#sample where Customer_Name='A'
------------------------*/
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax...
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 10, 2014 at 6:49 am

#1687515
RE: Return values in stored procedures and exiting

The return value of a stored procedure is int, and cannot be changed. Traditionally it was used to indicate success (RETURN 0) or failure (RETURN n, usually negative).
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 10, 2014 at 6:47 am

#1687514
RE: Please help to sort this

Do you have a fixed number of colours? If so, can you list them please?
^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

February 10, 2014 at 6:44 am

#1687513

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