Hi Jim

It's likely that your problem is down to column data types - either the column you're updating or the column you're using as row identifier in Excel isn't being...

You could avoid the use of those pesky variables altogether if you want...

DECLARE @script nvarchar(max)

SET...

Frank

SELECT batchid, description, merchantno, settlementdate, amount

INTO #batch_detail

In this table you have multiple rows...

I'd really appreciate that, thanks Debbie.

TheSQLGuru (3/7/2008)

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I guess someone has to play devil's advocate here, so here goes:

Brandie, you are totally off the mark. Do whatever you can to make the most money so...

It's looking good! And thanks for the feedback 🙂

Brandie Tarvin (3/7/2008)

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Amen to...

Yep. It's called an UPDATE ... FROM and will look something like this when you've finished...

UPDATE b SET b.start_date = a.start_date, b.end_date = a.end_date

FROM dbo.ECAF a

INNER JOIN dbo.ECAF_IDEAR b

ON...

Absolutely Debbie! So we build the UPDATE in two steps; the first step, which is a simple SELECT, is easy to test - you have output rows to look at...

I'm guessing it will look something like this...

SELECT a.PersonID, a.start_date, a.end_date

FROM dbo.ECAF a

INNER JOIN dbo.ECAF_IDEAR b

ON b.PersonID = a.PersonID AND a.start_date IS NULL AND b.end_date IS NULL

WHERE a.start_date IS...

Good, that makes things quite a bit simpler. Now, can you write a SELECT query from your source table which contains the rows and columns which you are using to...

Hi Debbie

Your first step for this UPDATE should be a SELECT which returns the rows containing the data which you want to use as your reference, i.e. which will overwrite...

TSQL or your cooking? 😀

No matter...

Bob Fazio (3/5/2008)

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The more I look at this, there is almost nothing that you are going to be able to do to help this query. The only suggestion I...

asmaa.sbaihi, you should run some experiments to establish exactly what you need in your query.

Something along the lines of...

This is your baseline, run it and record the results:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(RecordedCalls.ID)) AS...