Careful... that, too, will likely cause a table scan because the column in the WHERE clause is contained in a formula...

Well, when folks post such detailed information about how their code works (very nice job, by the way), others take the code and just use it instead of analyzing it. ...

Sure, that's what he said he thought the logic should be... he said immediately after that...

"Is the logic correct?  Can someone please help me decipher...

Thought this was what he asked for...

"certain action items need to be automatically assigned (through code) a due date on 3 Wednesday’s from whatever today is.  "

I agree, the 14...

...except, it doesn't work... if today is the 10th of November, 2006, the 3rd Wednesday from today is on the 29th of November... not the 6th of December...

SET...

Here's an example I made for the boys at work... the Customer Table has about 1.2 million rows in it... page "0" (page 1) will return in about 16 milliseconds. ...

Len, the following will prevent an index from being used if one is available...

where convert( varchar(10), DateField,112 ) between @T1 and @T2

Papillon,

Would you post the query that makes the output, please... there may be a trick or two we can pull off on this one...

Do you have an example?

And, be aware that because the code uses a global temp table, you should do something to guarantee that only one instance of the code will ever be executed at...

Robert,

Shifting gears a bit, how's the performance of inserts of new records?  How about for a returning customer with a new order?  Your clusterd index is VERY contrary to the...

Nope... other than moving the table as Serqiy suggested (and, is actually the correct way to do it!), the only other way is by trigger...

I'm assuming that the proc you made from my code example creates a temp table within it... that won't work because of the scope of temp tables... you have to...

Gail,

Sorry I don't have time to modify this code snippet I borrowed from some of the production code I wrote for work... lemme give you a couple of hints...

1. "NPA"...

Really?  Easier in the App?  Could I see an example, please?  And don't forget to report what the performance is... thanks.