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  • RE: Using Bitwise Operators to Boost Performance

    Nice article... you really put some thought into the proofs and which graphics to use.  Good idea, as well.

  • RE: Conditional Update Quandary

    They want to use a varbinary similar to what is presented by COLUMNS_UPDATED() in triggers.  I've got all that worked out so no problem there.  Like I said, I have...

  • RE: Conditional Update Quandary

    Vladan,

    My most sincere appologies as well... I thought you were directing it at me... Phil's correct... it's been a terrible week never mind day alone.  But that's no excuse and...

  • RE: Conditional Update Quandary

    Not my restrictions but the I agree with your smart-assed comment and useless comment... the client is insane especially in light of the fact that I have a solution that...

  • RE: auto numbering..

    You bet, Chhana.  Simple is good.  Thank you for the feed back.

  • RE: Conditional Update Quandary

    Phil,

    I sure wouldn't mind seeing that DLL if I can call it as an extended stored procedure.  I hadn't thought about that.  From a Data Troll aspect, I wouldn't mind...

  • RE: auto numbering..

     CREATE TABLE myTable

            (

            myCol BIGINT IDENTITY(1,1),

            Col1....

            .... other column data

            ....

            )

  • RE: how search BETWEEN the first day of the month and Last day

    Harley,

    First, welcome aboard.  Thanks for the feedback and you are absolutely correct... it's supposed to add a month and I fat fingered it...  I've corrected the problem in the previous...

  • RE: how search BETWEEN the first day of the month and Last day

    Midan1,

    YOU WROTE:

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------but i need to search between dates

    like this i can not !!!

    SELECT DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,0,GETDATE()),0)  

     , DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,-1,GETDATE()),0)

    i need to search from

    first day of the month

     the-1

     and  between

    last

    28

  • RE: how search BETWEEN the first day of the month and Last day

    Instead of messing around with milliseconds and adding 31 days, etc....  it's a takeoff on what the other posters have done but a wee bit different... works kinda like Frank's...

  • RE: How to convert vertical records to horizontal?

    Can do...

     SELECT FieldID,

            MIN(CASE WHEN FieldName = 'NAME'    THEN FieldValue END) AS NAME,

            MIN(CASE WHEN FieldName = 'Address' THEN FieldValue END) AS Address,

            MIN(CASE WHEN FieldName = 'ZIP'    ...

  • RE: Making an Update Query more efficient

    One more thing!  Don't even think of using the SELECT/INTO/RENAME method if others are updating the table at the same time or inserting new rows.... YOU WILL LOSE...

  • RE: Making an Update Query more efficient

    Almost forgot... does the table being updated have any triggers?  That really make things slow for this big an update especially if those triggers are writing to audit tables or...

  • RE: Making an Update Query more efficient

    Yup, I'd lose the OUTER JOIN if an INNER JOIN will do.  Also, like someone else asked, "What is slow"?  I normally shoot for about 500,000 rows per minute (sometimes...

  • RE: Is there a way to convert hex to decimal?

    Very, very cool...  ol' Itzik did a neat job on this one.

    Ken, do you know of a fn_DecToBase function in a similar vein by anyone?

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