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Use a case and datepart.
select case when datepart(hh,getdate()) between 6 and 11 then 'morning'
WHEN datepart(hh,getdate()) = 12 THEN 'noon'
WHEN datepart(hh,getdate()) BETWEEN 13 and 17 THEN 'afternoon'
end
etc.
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November 26, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Best I can do is give you some places to look I'm afraid.
1) Get your execution plan from your dev/test boxes and compare it to the prod...
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November 26, 2007 at 3:28 pm
INSERT INTO tblTrace SELECT * FROM ::fn_trace_gettable("c:\mytrace\test.trc")
This statement should append the data in the test.trc into tblTrace each time you run it just like a normal insert. Now it...
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November 26, 2007 at 3:18 pm
At my company we (the DBAs) just took over a lot of the responsibility from the SA's for our SQL boxes. Primarily because they are seriously under staffed and...
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November 21, 2007 at 1:55 pm
What kind of problems did you run into with Service Broker? I would much prefer to hear about them from you than have to run into them myself. ...
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November 21, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Honestly I'm not sure why if its listed last in the plan it behaves the way it does but it does seem to seriously reduce the amount of time on...
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November 20, 2007 at 7:04 am
Your problem is that you arn't linking your subquery to your outer query. Your inner query is returning exactly 1 record. The top record in the table. ...
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November 19, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Well, Its not exactly a free lunch but it does help some. If you use a top 100 SQL will stop running after it finds the first 100 matches...
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November 19, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Best I can tell it is a server level permission.
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November 19, 2007 at 3:13 pm
The method you are using is fine. You just have one small piece of the puzzle missing.
Select c.[ConsultantID]
,c.[FirstName]
,c.[LastName]
,c.[SponsorID]
,d.[FirstName] AS Sponser_FirstName
,d.[LastName] AS Sponser_LastName
from Consultant C, Consultant D
Where C.SponsorID...
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November 19, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Simple enough. Just add a reference from your outer query into your subquery. For example:
SELECT OuterQuery.*
FROM OuterQuery
WHERE EXISTS
(
SELECT jobs.job_id, Min(opactivity.id) As 'OptID'
...
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November 19, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I agree with Grant. You definatly need to provide some more information but here is a very general response
[Quote]
Please list customers that are currently on Plan C but they...
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November 16, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Well normally you would just call the function in the field list of a query.
SELECT fn_Function(FieldA)
FROM Table1
WHERE FieldA IS NOT NULL
Normally you are just trying to get data back but...
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November 16, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Well here is a start. Unfortunatly I could only get it to work as a procedure not a function (where it would be much more useful) but maybe with...
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November 15, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Any reason you don't want to use the GUI to do the scripting? If you right click on the database name and select Tasks\Generate Scripts you will be in...
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November 15, 2007 at 2:46 pm
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