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  • RE: Find number in String and Return INT

    Many ways to skin this proverbial cat:

    WITH Buyers (buyer) AS (

    SELECT '3, RRRRR'

    UNION ALL SELECT '4, SSSSS'

    UNION ALL...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Need Help In Query ....

    To get exactly the expected results you specified, a very minor modification to Koen's query is in order:

    DECLARE @minDate DATE = '2010-01-01';

    DECLARE @maxDate DATE = '2013-04-01';

    SELECT DATEADD(mm,6 * number,@mindate)...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Case statements advice - query case field?

    Alan.B (8/12/2013)


    dwain.c (8/12/2013)


    Alan.B (8/12/2013)


    Instead of the case statement you can also do this:

    SELECT ISNULL(thing1.name,(ISNULL(thing2.name,thing3.name))) AS name

    And why not:

    SELECT COALESCE(thing1.name,thing2.name,thing3.name) AS name

    ?

    Nice. That is cleaner and easier to read.

    +1

    I confess...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Is overpunch amenable to cross apply?

    Is it too late for me to join the party?

    WITH SampleData (A, B) AS (

    SELECT *

    FROM (VALUES

    ('0002137}','0004000{')

    ,('0002137J','0004000A')

    ,('0002137K','0004000B')

    ,('0002137L','0004000C')

    ,('0002137M','0004000D')

    ,('0002137N','0004000E')

    ,('0002137O','0004000F')

    ,('0002137P','0004000G')

    ,('0002137Q','0004000H')

    ,('0002137R','0004000I')

    ,('0002137{','0004000}')

    ,('0002137A','0004000J')

    ,('0002137B','0004000K')

    ,('0002137C','0004000L')

    ,('0002137D','0004000M')

    ,('0002137E','0004000N')

    ,('0002137F','0004000O')

    ,('0002137G','0004000P')

    ,('0002137H','0004000Q')

    ,('0002137I','0004000R')

    ) a(A,B))

    SELECT OldA=A, A=STUFF(A, LEN(A), 1, (A1-1)%10)*POWER(-1, CASE WHEN A1 > 9 THEN...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Case statements advice - query case field?

    Alan.B (8/12/2013)


    Instead of the case statement you can also do this:

    SELECT ISNULL(thing1.name,(ISNULL(thing2.name,thing3.name))) AS name

    And why not:

    SELECT COALESCE(thing1.name,thing2.name,thing3.name) AS name

    ?


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Do I need to use cursors for this?

    Sounds like you're looking for a way to build a catch all query in the SP.

    Take a look at this article by Gail Shaw: SQL-in-the-Wild: Catch-all queries[/url]


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Stumped on Query

    I'm not sure about your question on the joins but using the sample data provided by Geoff, here's my solution (with the "instance" column):

    with

    raw_data (id, customer_id, product, [date]) as

    (select 1,...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ChrisM@Work (8/12/2013)


    Jeff Moden (8/10/2013)


    Brandie Tarvin (8/2/2013)


    How many people (besides Jeff and myself) have written SQL Spackle articles?

    How many SQL Spackle articles are there?

    Yes, I have a reason for asking. But...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (8/10/2013)


    Brandie Tarvin (8/2/2013)


    How many people (besides Jeff and myself) have written SQL Spackle articles?

    How many SQL Spackle articles are there?

    Yes, I have a reason for asking. But I...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ChrisM@Work (8/9/2013)


    dwain.c (8/8/2013)


    ChrisM@Work (8/8/2013)


    Howard - the name of the guy made me chuckle, given the pidgin English 😀

    I've been hearing a lot of Tok Pisin for the last week....


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ChrisM@Work (8/8/2013)


    Howard - the name of the guy made me chuckle, given the pidgin English 😀

    I've been hearing a lot of Tok Pisin for the last week. Two...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Pass inter year and month return last day of month

    How about this?

    WITH SampleData AS (

    SELECT Yr=2012, Mon=7, DesiredDate=CAST('07/31/2012' AS DATETIME)

    UNION ALL SELECT 2014, 6, CAST('06/30/2014' AS DATETIME))

    SELECT Yr, Mon, DesiredDate

    ...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: help with incrementing

    ck9663 (8/6/2013)


    How about something with no CTE nor subquery...

    ...

    ~~ CKK

    ?? Mine has neither. The CTE is only there to put the sample data someplace.


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (8/6/2013)


    ... but don't know if MySQL has any reasons to avoid it like the plague.

    Any opinions?

    Perhaps because it's owned by Oracle?


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • RE: How to convert my cursor tsql to set based

    Still would like to see some test data with expected results.

    This sounds very similar to a problem I worked out not too long ago. And for that I had...


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

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