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  • RE: Calculating Last 5 Business Days and Next 5Days

    jshuter (12/17/2014)


    I understand the need to use SQL when doing SQL but a little looping wont kill ya 🙂

    I'd still do something like the following

    declare @i int =...

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  • RE: SQL doesn't see .bak file?

    Under SSMS> Server Objects, >

    there is a Backup Devices folder. Here you can easily create a .bak file and easily find it later as well through here. You can point...

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  • RE: Select bottom 25%

    Statistically speaking you want the first quartile, so borrowing on Matt's solution I would just shift a few things to make it intuitive ...

    with MYcte as (

    selectMAINGROUP,vALUE, NTILE(4) OVER...

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  • RE: Database column size increased but SSIS package not reflecting the change

    I find in these situation I save a lot of time by dropping the source and creating a new one. If I had SQL coded I copy it ahead of...

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  • RE: Better to store 0 or null in a column

    0 means 0 , NULL means unknown. They are not the same.

    One approach if you do not want to have nulls in your table is to have a "magic"...

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  • RE: Acessing Unix files directly through SSIS

    mitesh.temre (12/17/2014)


    lvbntapasvi (9/6/2014)


    Hello All,

    I am new to SSIS, and have started using it from the past 3 weeks. I have a task where in I am supposed to access the...

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  • RE: Conversion of Date from legacy systems with 7 and 6 digit format to DD/MM/YYYY format

    Luis Cazares (12/9/2014)


    Should I insist on this method? I just added a NULLIF function and it works.

    SELECT CAST( CAST( 19000000 + NULLIF(oldDate, 0) AS CHAR(8)) AS date)

    FROM( VALUES('0980412'),('1100323'), ('0'))x(oldDate)

    I think...

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  • RE: OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI10" for linked server "(null)

    I know this probably is a long shot but is everything lined up in the Sql Server Configuration Manager ? (I have shared memory, tcp/ip, and named pipes all enabled).

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  • RE: Alter the schema from one view causes the need to alter the other

    MMartin1 (12/1/2014)


    You could schema bind a view to a table , so that the columns the view depends on are not altered until the binding is removed. This would have...

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  • RE: Divide by zero error encountered.

    Eirikur Eiriksson (12/16/2014)


    DonlSimpson (12/16/2014)


    MMartin1 (12/16/2014)


    NULLIF((EVT.VAL2), 0)

    Maybe I'm just missing something here, but how can the above EVER return a zero?

    It would not, but that is what the user wanted. That...

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  • RE: Divide by zero error encountered.

    NULLIF((EVT.VAL2), 0)

    Maybe I'm just missing something here, but how can the above EVER return a zero?

    It would not, but that is what the user wanted. That is to prevent a...

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  • RE: Divide by zero error encountered.

    As long as the business users understand the calculation and they are fine with it, that is what matters. Ideally if there are values missing I like to return null...

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  • RE: Divide by zero error encountered.

    Eirikur Eiriksson (12/15/2014)


    farrukhhameed786 (12/15/2014)


    Hi

    Please Below the query i need to use condition

    I need to use in below query how to use

    SELECT

    ISNULL(EVT.VAL1/NULLIF((EVT.VAL2),0),0) AS ITEM_ID

    FROM

    EVENT1 EVT

    WHERE NAME IN...

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  • RE: Adding new varchar (30) field to table causes stored procedure to take 10 times more time

    JeeTee (12/9/2014)


    Where did you read nolock is deprecated?

    Not that I'm encouraging use of nolock, but I see it's deprecated in from clauses in updates and inserts, but not straight selects....

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  • RE: CONVERT DATETIME INTO DATE IN SSIS

    Another thing to consider... in your four tables, if you only pull records that are time stamped within that last hour that you want to fetch and you dont need...

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