ahh;

the subquery in the parenthesis needs an alias:

this fails: select name from (select name,id from sysobjects union select name,id from syscolumns)

this works:select name from (select name,id from sysobjects union...

because of the sum function, you have to GROUP BY in the outer select: try this syntax:

select sum(col1),col2 from

(select col1,col2 from table1 union select col1,col2 from table2)

GROUP BY COL2

your syntax is incorrect:

AND (src_terrier.Areacode LIKE @chr_div+ '%')

so if @chr_div = 'EV', the addition of the % sign makes the wild card search anything that STARTS with 'EV', like 'evansville'...

if the IN statement was running accross a bigger list, like  in(SELECT X FROM SOME TABLE),

I would expect it should be faster, because it would bailout as true on the...

i doubt it; most db servers are hidden behind the firewall at the hosting company, and only the web server can see the db server.

but that also means that you...

just missing the END command of the case statement: let me know how this seems to work now

 (CASE WHEN @PropertyValue BETWEEN 1 AND 10

  THEN @PropertyValue * 100000

  WHEN @PropertyValue...

there are quite a few on this site;

here is an example using this version of split:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/viewscript.asp?scriptid=225

declare @string        varchar(200),

        @LeadTimeFrame int

set @LeadTimeFrame=3

if @LeadTimeFrame = 1       set @string='24'

else if @LeadTimeFrame =...

MAYBE another indicator is this: the only difference i see forwhen

 IF (@LeadTimeFrame = 1)

is evaluated, the SQL is the same except for an additional check in the WHERE...

i can see a minor improvement; it looks like that huge if-then-else to get the @PriceRange  could be replaced by a three line case statement:

SET @PriceRange = (CASE...

there is a plug in for source safe on this site which keeps all the DDL in source sage for you; you could use that application as far as source...

here's another way to get them by using a cursor to enumerate the procs, and simply using sp_helptext:

declare

 @isql varchar(2000),

 @provname varchar(64)

 declare c1 cursor for select name from sysobjects where name not...

the GUI doesn't let you browse to, or paste a UNC path; so to use the GUI, you MUST map a drive; if the problem was a scheduled job, then you...

from http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/14025/14025.html

there's a difference between a primary key, which technically can span multiple columns, and a column that has the identity function on it to auto generate the next value of...

i didn't think actual database backups were labeled with a version... i thought only the server had an @@version, and the data was always backed up to an 8.00 version,...