Hi Surya

<<all the values are in single cell of excel csv file>>

Not entirely sure what you mean by this...would it be possible for you to open the csv file in...

Heh heh good catch, Steve!

Also, Peter's treatment of dates is spot on, there's another current thread where this is "gently tested"

Hi

Maybe I'm missing the obvious here...but why don't you use bigint?

From BOL: "The bigint data type is supported where integer values are supported. However, bigint is intended for...

Shamshad, both Sorin and Jeff were absolutely correct. You need left joins. Your query didn't work because the aggregates in your query were incorrectly specified.

This will help you: test data...

Hi Imke

You will still need to be careful with this: if the time component of an AlertDate which is the same date as the getdate() date, is before the time...

Hi Imke

It brings back nothing because you're matching on the time component of the datetime, as well as the date component.

Try

DATEDIFF(day, AlertDate, getdate()) > @day

instead of AlertDate >  (select...

Hi Dan

Try running the following:

SELECT Latitude, Longitude, count(*) as nRows 

FROM RGCcache

Group by Latitude, Longitude

HAVING count(*) > 1

Check that...

Hi vy

"* Maximum user connections: 5 before the work load governor will limit the performance."

this is from http://www.vialect.net/page25/page37/page37.html

Cheers

ChrisM

Well put, David.

While we're here (I hate doing this almost as much as I hate seeing rubbish posted in this forum):

<<from exposure to DU weapons radioactivity>> No Johan, it isn't...

Johan, I had a look at the site http://www.st911.org. Not for long, there was an argument about the temperatures which may or may not have been reached within the...

Happy Independence Day to us Brits from you Yankees! Heh heh!

Never been sure what we Brits were fighting for in North America all those years ago but I like the...

Going with <<I need to get unique address that correspond with the most data>>, this will preferentially pick an ID/address line which joins to non-null MLSNO and agent...

DROP TABLE #TableOne
CREATE TABLE...

Hi Mr S

For each column in Excel which has mixed data types, you must import to char or varchar. Force the cell contents to be a text type by preceeding...

Yeah me too!

I saw a use for ...

UPDATE #MyHead

SET

@Grp = Grp = CASE WHEN

Someone far more clever than me will explain why you're having problems using a collation directive (?) in a remote query, in the meantime here's a workaround - change the...