Try not using a cursor ...

Thanks, Bill,

I do have to emphasize that performance will usually be better if you do this simple type of thing in the code mainstream instead of a function.  Functions are...

Jules,

The two functions I wrote do get rid of the time portion and they do it with only trwo functions instead of the 5 you used.  AND, they did it without...

My recommendation would be not to make a trip to a character based date and back again...  I'd also not make a stored procedure for it.  I'd likely do it...

Dunno about VB datetimes but in SQL Server 2000...

I think you'll find that 23:59:59.999 will round up to precisely 00:00:00.000 and that 23:59:59.998 will round down to 23:59:59.997.

SELECT CAST('23:59:59.999' AS DATETIME)

SELECT CAST('23:59:59.998' AS...

I agree... a decent article... but it DOES sound like an advertisement and provides no real info as to how to do the sizing estimate if you don't have those...

Not a problem, Nick.  You had the right idea...

In SQL Server (very cool and very unlike Oracle), there are two tables that are temporarily formed (in TempDB) and available in...

Nicely done... a couple of minor things you may want to change...

1. If t2.ID>t1.ID then t2.ID cannot be equal to t1.ID.  Remove the t1.ID<>t2.ID criteria.
2. In case the amount of time is...

I haven't checked your logic but the problem with the triggers is that they are written in a RBAR (pronounced "ree-bar", my less than affectionate term for "Row By Agonizing...

I think someone needs to look at the data in the tables.  How many times is a ZipCode listed in the neigborhood Profiles table?  You could be spawning dozens or...

Scott's method will certainly work!  I'd still like to know why "net" wants to do this...

You may be able to get a bit more performance out of it by changing this...

WHERE     neighborhoodinfo.dbo.Profiles.ZIP IS NOT NULL

...to this...

WHERE     neighborhoodinfo.dbo.Profiles.ZIP > '00000'

... which will also exclude "bad" zip...

Other than adding a primary key (defaults to clustered), there's not much you can do to increase the performance of a SELECT * other than pinning the table (as someone...

Won't work @@Identiy is a scalar function the returns the last identity value created in ANY table by anything in the current scope chain including triggers.

John Mitchel is correct... you'll...

I'm not sure why you need the performance hit of the split function...

For example, here's an example that splits a whole table at once (this one splits on periods which you...