Eugene Elutin (8/17/2010)

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Could you please advise how many records you are expecting to be inserted into this table at-once (eg. using INSERT ... SELECT...type of queries).

Will it be one-by-one...

In looking over your trigger again, I noticed a couple of things. Since you declare your variable as varchar, it only holds the last value when you set the...

Your cursor is more...

There are a couple of options.

CASE 1: Left outer join

SELECT DISTINCT e.EmpID, e.Name, CASE WHEN sub.EmpID Is NULL THEN 'N' ELSE 'Y' END AS Manager_Status

FROM Employee AS e

LEFT OUTER...

Your assignment statement is in the wrong place. Your statement should be

WITH CTE AS (....)

SELECT @MyVal = ( SELECT .... FROM CTE .... )

Also, the query you are using...

His function already returns the CustomerCode, so he can join on that instead of rewriting the function.

UPDATE TR

SET Amount_Lastest = FGA.AmountFinal

FROM #TempResults ...

It's really not clear what you are trying to accomplish. Are you trying to replicate the Information_Schema.Columns view? How about providing sample data and expected results as recommended...

ziedkallel (8/12/2010)

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Actually the descriptions table is created from scratch based on some (simple) business rules. I'm hoping I can rely on those business rules to do the joint. Here is...

Try CASTing it as varbinary(max).

You might also want to check that the collations on the two databases match. Different collations can treat the same character differently.

Drew

The basic idea is that you check whether an object already exists. If it doesn't you add it.

IF NOT EXISTS (

SELECT *

...

All you have to do is add/subtract the appropriate amount to adjust the beginning of your fiscal year to Jan. 1. In your case, subtracting three months (or adding...

A couple of things. In order for us to help you with your problem, the sample data has to be representative of your live data. Since it's obvious...

Web browsers unescape the characters for you. In order to display the escaped characters, you have to escape the ampersands that are produced by your query.

col1(No column name)

1<A>, <B>,...

I'll go one step further. Your OrderID and LineID should either be int (highly recommended) or at least padded with zeros to get a consistent length. Otherwise when...

It sounds like your original query was treating your XML data as string data. There are a number of ways that you can correct this, but since you didn't...