Evidently, geeks with weapons!

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The good news is, it's working. I just finished the install and I'm looking at the February CTP, finally.

Get rid of the TOP 1 sub select in the SELECT clause, that's effectively a cursor in your code.

Try using a LEFT JOIN?

The axe is such a clumsy weapon. How about a katana? Unless the interviewers are wearing armor, then I'm going for a good broadsword.

No pork chops!

How about just coming as...

Oh, and it happened to one other guy at my company too. He was able to get his uninstalled. Mine wasn't. I'm probably going to be rebuilding my lap top....

I ran into a problem. It didn't prevent 2005 from working, but it did cause parts of the GUI in SSMS to stop working. I would be very cautious about...

Because you're grouping on everything, you'll get the max date for a distict select. You might want to look at something like:

SELECT c.consultantid

...

Yes.

Oh, a little more? Fine.

You can do either. The preferred approach when building applications is to create...

Another question far too dense to answer in a forum like this.

However, a few pointers (and, as with everything in SQL Server, there are exceptions to every one of these...

Another variation on what everyone else has done would be this:

SELECT a.OH_DOC_TYPE,

a.OH_DOC_NUM,

a.OH_PO_NUM,

...

I doubt it's going to help, but you can call this in a cross database query. I used the example from BOL:

SELECT 'Index Name' = i.name, 'Statistics Date' = STATS_DATE(i.object_id,...

Darn it. Late to the game.

Everything Matt said.

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Nope. Not through anything available in the system for your basic queries. There is a way to output status on restores & backups & such.

You can do this:

INSERT INTO MyTable1

DEFAULT VALUES

Then, with that, you can capture the values you inserted like this:

CREATE TABLE #Id ( id INT )

INSERT INTO onecolumn

OUTPUT inserted.id

...

It means your joins are probably returning more than one row from one of the tables. That's a pretty normal occurrence when using left joins. I'd first investigate the data...