Sean Lange (5/16/2012)

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Here is a simple example using exists to accomplish the type of behavior you are describing.

alter proc MyProc

(

@SomethingElse int

)

as begin

select top 5 * from sys.sysobjects as Something

if exists(select...

You might also want to add the CASE statement as a computed column on your PART table and create an index on that computed column.

Drew

Try using .value() instead of .query. I think that the .query may have an implicit conversion to varchar in it somewhere. With the .value, you can specify an...

He also has a valid point here. We already know that there was a problem with multiple records being returned and both the subquery and the merge will raise...

I think that this performs better, because it only requires one scan of the table instead of two.

SELECT * FROM #tmp

ORDER BY ROW_NUMBER() OVER( PARTITION BY Gender ORDER BY Name...

It's "next" as in "following", not "next to" as in "adjacent". That still doesn't explain what to do with the "][", since the following character doesn't have an uppercase...

The non-standard WITH CUBE has been deprecated as of SQL 2008 in favor of the standard CUBE(<composite element list>) syntax that was introduced in SQL 2008.

GROUP BY (Transact-SQL)

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WITH CUBE

This feature...

No, it's SQL 2005 or greater.

Drew

Just to clarify, here is a quote from BOL (emphasis added).

Subqueries with EXISTS

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When a subquery is introduced with the keyword EXISTS, the subquery functions as an existence test. The WHERE...

Since the error is occurring in your VBA code, not your T-SQL code, you're more likely to get help from a VBA forum.

Drew

You can still create a temporary table or table variable that holds this information. It probably isn't as good a solution as incorporating it directly into the database, but...

I think the best way to do this is code it into your table with a foreign key to the overarching corporation. That way you can prevent things like...

T-SQL doesn't have a Boolean data type, so I see no problem with using a BIT to represent...

The CASE function cannot return a Boolean value. You can either rewrite your query to return a pseudo-Boolean value and then check whether that value is equal to "true"...

Sean Lange (5/11/2012)

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themangoagent (5/11/2012)

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Jeff Moden (5/10/2012)

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Didn't look to see if it was mentioned before but one sure fire way to increase the performance here would be to use UNION ALL...