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  • RE: Current week, last week, current month and last month

    Charles,

    Very nice.   And if you reverse the dates, the numbers make even more sense!  I added a couple more to show the trend...

     Previous Week: DateDiff(wk,getdate(),datefield) = -1
      Current Week:...

  • RE: Anyway to make this de-duping process run faster?

    Not sure... I think this is what you want... make sure you have a primary key on your table and this should only take a couple of seconds to run. ...

  • RE: using Replace with wild cards

    Those are all great methods and I applaud the innovations of all... but as Remi G and Adam Mechanic would remind us, you might just want to think about finally...

  • 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...

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