without having both procs there's nothing I can do - it may be a slight error on your SprocA that causes the table not to be populated

you need to install the EXACT SSDT version I mention above - download it and install onto a new VS 2017 instance - it will do a Shell install which...

depending on your VS version it may not show up at all - VS2019 for example will use a different driver (replacement from Microsoft of the Attunity one )

To use...

I would note that if the purpose of this query is just to output to a file for consumption by other system then using a different method would probably be...

you can create a unique filtered index on that column - it will prevent inserting more than 1 row with it set to true.

Thanks. Actually I have a JSON querying which is taking longer time for half million rows take approx. 15 mins to finish. However using query hints it runs faster....

Frederico .... maybe you're onto something.

Your query has multiple references to ftbid01 which obviously should be to 01, 02, 03, ...

The outer apply could be a cross apply, or...

if I got it correctly the dynamic requirement is that its not the content of the field that is being updated but rather that the field it is being used...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by frederico_fonseca.

Okay, I felt this would be more efficient  and extensible ti done in SQL server, and I guess I thought it would be easier, but thanks I will do...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by frederico_fonseca.

in SSMS you need to use xp_cmdshell.

but on your original post you stated that this is to be executed from a vb.net program - that being the case the correct...

how are you executing this? syntax is ok if executing on a command prompt but depending on how you are doing it you will require additional quotes.

for example if doing...

That's great news Lynn - and awesome timing 🙂

have...

That's why I put the note: my EXISTS example does NOT reference an outer table.  A rare situation perhaps, but not impossible, more likely:

WHERE EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM sys.tables WHERE...

Wouldn't that count every reference as a "join", including a select from a single table?  And any other single select from a table.

SELECT ...

FROM dbo.table1

SELECT ...

FROM dbo.table1

WHERE EXISTS(SELECT 1...