Piling on, don't use implicit convertion

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DECLARE @startdate DATETIME = CONVERT(DATETIME,'20160101',112);

Since you are on a 2012 forum then why not use a window function?

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Note that a POC index like this would be very helpful

CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX NCLIDX_#EXAMPLE_CUST_SALES_INCL_WIN_PRODUCT ON #example

(customerId ASC,...

jasona.work (5/26/2016)

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I'm really starting to hate the SSIS Catalog...

Two servers, same permissions on both. On one, the user can deploy their project no problems (with the deploy project wizard.)

On...

Ray K (5/26/2016)

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Hey Threadizens . . .

The other day (inspired by a couple of SQL Saturday speakers), I started my own blog.

My most recent entry tackles the very-often-asked-here-on-SSC question, "how...

cvoss85 (5/26/2016)

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I have an SSIS package which includes a foreach loop to find a file and then archive it to a different folder once other steps are completed.

When I execute...

Quick question, can you post the DDL (create script(s)) for the tables, sample data as insert script(s) and the expected results?

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Same as before with the added columns, note the added calculated column and a covering index which improves the performance quite a bit, roughly 5 times faster than the self...

Luis Cazares (5/25/2016)

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Gazareth (5/25/2016)

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jasona.work (5/25/2016)

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Eirikur Eiriksson (5/25/2016)

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Brandie Tarvin (5/25/2016)

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Brandie Tarvin (5/25/2016)

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Sigh....

Quick suggestion

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Relies on the sum of the checksum of the identifiers so be aware that there is a change of getting a collision error

USE tempdb;

GO

SET NOCOUNT ON;

;WITH SAMPLE_DATA(AFFILIATIONID,BACKAFFILID,ENTITYID) AS

(

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Brandie Tarvin (5/25/2016)

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Brandie Tarvin (5/25/2016)

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Sigh. Wish wish wish I could get...

Jeff Sims-413169 (5/24/2016)

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I am running a alter table tablename alter column columnname varchar(66) on a very large table, currently is INT. 1billion rows. Ran 11 hours but...

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Lot of logic and checks performed in the job...

rk1980factor (5/23/2016)

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I have 3 tables A,B,C

Here are column and field names

A:app_no,app_name,app_add

B:b_no, B_code,B_rates

C:c_no, C_degree,C_humidity

There is common field in all 3 tables but their field names are different. (in above example app_no,b_no...

Piling on

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IF OBJECT_ID(N'dbo.TBL_SAMPLE_ACTIVITY_DATA') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE dbo.TBL_SAMPLE_ACTIVITY_DATA;

CREATE TABLE dbo.TBL_SAMPLE_ACTIVITY_DATA

(

Workid INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL

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jasona.work (5/19/2016)

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yb751 (5/19/2016)

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jasona.work (5/19/2016)

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Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)

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Greg Edwards-268690 (5/19/2016)

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Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)

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GilaMonster (5/19/2016)

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Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data...