But you can manipulate...

komal145 (1/4/2017)

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I have Firstname , firstname 1 , firstname 2 ,firstname3

If firstname is null thne firstname1 , if firstname1 is also null then Firstname2 ...will the case will work ?

Case...

Both THROW and RAISERROR cause side effects and user-defined functions cannot cause side effects, so you cannot use a THROW or RAISERROR in a UDF.

Drew

Alan.B (1/3/2017)

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drew.allen (1/3/2017)

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Alan.B (1/3/2017)

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This wont work because you can't nest aggregates like this so we'll have to break out the RANK Window Function like so (including sample data so you...

Luis Cazares (1/3/2017)

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Keeping Phil's simple formula:

SELECT name = concat(First_Name, ' ', Last_Name),

Sports = STUFF(iif(Football = 'Y', '; Football','') + iif(Soccer = 'Y', '; Soccer','') + etc, 1, 2, '')

FROM...

Alan.B (1/3/2017)

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This wont work because you can't nest aggregates like this so we'll have to break out the RANK Window Function like so (including sample data so you can just...

I prefer the XML concatenation technique. I also put a leading delimiter instead of a trailing delimiter, because you always know exactly where to find the one to remove...

Actually, it was a modification of my original query. I didn't realize...

TheSQLGuru (1/3/2017)

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I...

jon.wilson (1/3/2017)

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Sample data provided in previous post expected output would be

Year Number of First Time Award recipients

2012 40

2013 ...

It sounds like you want something like the following.

SELECT employee_id

FROM awards

GROUP BY employee_id

HAVING YEAR(MIN(award_dt)) = YEAR(GETDATE())

Drew

Unless you are okay with dirty reads, e.g., skipped records or repeated records, NOWHERE. WITH (NOLOCK) is not a magic "go faster" hint. It comes at a cost,...

This is just a gaps and islands problem.

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WITH Postcode_groups AS (

SELECT Postcode, Rating, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Postcode) - ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Rating ORDER BY Postcode) AS Grp

FROM #SamplePostcodes

--ORDER BY Postcode;

)

SELECT...

gward 98556 (2/27/2014)

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Don't forget that whenever you ever move the package to another server it will fail again until you or a colleague finds out about the registry hack. ...

watto84 (12/29/2016)

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I worked it out 🙂

As you suggested, it just needed a slight modification to "order by" in the below section of the code:

ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY Game, Team ORDER...