Jnrstevej (6/21/2011)

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I'm under the impression that if i could get the column(item) to align to the LEFT in the select statement when its exported this should in theory solve my...

Justification is a presentation issue and T-SQL is not designed to be a presentation layer, so it has no support for presentation, although you can use string manipulation functions to...

The fact that he's COPYING the records including the ItemName guarantees that the ItemName cannot uniquely...

Phil Parkin (6/17/2011)

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If you write a lot of T-SQL, consider doing yourself a favour and omit the readability words (AS is one) - it soon becomes second nature and as...

You're very long if structure can be replaced with a simple formula.

SELECT DateAdd(Week, DateDiff(Week, 0, GetDate()), 0)

The formula takes advantage of the fact that date 0 fell on a Monday.

The...

A couple of things that I wanted to point out.

* You use this formula repeatedly in your query DATEADD(MINUTE,-@interval,DATEADD(MINUTE,N*@interval,@starttime)) I moved it into the CTE so that I...

bpmosullivan (6/14/2011)

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Got the following query to run but it is not applying the case argument. Any ideas appreciated ?

WITH CTE AS (

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It's not clear what order you want to apply your criteria, and it will affect the exact query used.

When you have multiple records, do you want to find the last...

This came up in another thread recently, but I can't find it right now.

If it requires user interaction, it really belongs in the front end. Triggers are about as...

There are far deeper problems with the trigger than the multiple subselects.

If you are only inserting one record, this trigger does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. If you update column A in...

Are these columns NULLABLE? Do they have DEFAULTs?...

npeters 86796 (6/7/2011)

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I have the query below which will be used in ssrs.

the problem i have is that i need to query data using the month in the where clause...

Did you change this in the main query or the subquery? Changing this in the subquery won't have any real effect on the outcome.

Drew

The last parameter in SUBSTRING() is number of characters, not the ending position. If the length of the string is 30, you're asking for 28 characters from an 8...

You probably have duplicate values in your IV00101 table, so even though they don't exist in your target table, they produce duplicate values when they are both inserted. Try...