I actually prefer using sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities. I found that I was getting false positives using the LIKE operator, because people had commented out sections of code, so the table name...

Lynn Pettis (8/28/2015)

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Lowell (8/28/2015)

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the command prior to WITH MyCTE AS(...

must be terminated with a semicolon. that's probably where the issue likes.

that issue makes a lot of people precede their...

mar.ko (8/28/2015)

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Ed Wagner (8/28/2015)

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The statement that contains the CTE needs to end with a query that uses the CTE. Like Luis said, please post the code; that should clear...

alemmon2 (8/28/2015)

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I figured since all versions are actually xx.xx.xxxx they would be greater or less than 10. In this case the GOTO is not an else as it is just...

The first thing I notice is that you are excluding SQL 2008. You have tests for > 10, and < 10, but not = 10.

On a separate note, replace...

Jo6205 (8/27/2015)

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Hi All,

I'm working in a stored procedure (not mine) and need to update a parameter. When a user runs the report, there is an option to pull jobs based...

For completeness, ordering by one of the partition expressions is pointless. The ORDER BY clause orders the records within the partition. Since all rows within a partition have...

Also note that

SUBSTRING(DOB,1,2)+SUBSTRING(DOB,3,2)

is the same as

SUBSTRING(DOB,1,4)

I don't know if it will make a noticeable difference in performance, and I don't have the time to test it right now.

Drew

This will generally perform much better than a UNION. I also replaced your TotalPrice * -1 using the unary operator.

SELECT t.*

FROM Accounts

CROSS APPLY (

VALUES('Asset', 'House', -TotalPrice)

,('Balance', 'Cover', TotalPrice)

) AS...

Lowell (8/19/2015)

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--first critieria

SELECT OT.Week_id,OT.Jobnbr,OT.tasknbr FROM @data OT WHERE item_type = 'TASK' GROUP BY OT.Week_id,OT.Jobnbr,OT.tasknbr

EXCEPT

SELECT Week_id,Jobnbr,tasknbr FROM @data OH WHERE item_type = 'HOLD' AND item_id <> 'MATL' GROUP...

I think this is more efficient since it only requires reading the table once instead of three times.

SELECT d.week_id, d.jobnbr, d.tasknbr

FROM @data d

GROUP BY d.week_id, d.jobnbr, d.tasknbr

HAVING MIN(

CASE

WHEN d.item_type =...

I didn't realize that was the case. In that case my query above...

You can use the following:

SELECT t.TABLE_NAME, REPLACE(@cmd, '?', t.TABLE_NAME)

FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES t

The table name doesn't (typically) end with a ']', so it won't delete any records.

Also '_' is a wildcard, so...

Eirikur Eiriksson (8/18/2015)

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Quick suggestion

😎

USE tempdb;

GO

SET NOCOUNT ON;

declare @Process table(ProcessId int identity(1,1) primary key,ProcessName varchar(100),ParentStep int, ChildStep int);

Insert into @Process(ProcessName,ParentStep,ChildStep)

select 'Process1',1,2 union all

select 'Process2',1,3 union all

select 'Process3',1,6 union all

select 'Process4',4,2 union...

Eirikur Eiriksson (8/14/2015)

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drew.allen (8/14/2015)

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Eirikur Eiriksson (8/14/2015)

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Further, I was only stating that with a properly written XQuery, using the text() function is much quicker, I was not commenting or comparing to...