I threw out all my Dan Brown books too so I was doubly sure.

Thank you, sorry for being an annoying noob moron, will try to do better in the future with well-formed requests.  This is very helpful, I have been stuck for...

Without wanting to pile-on, there's no 31st of September either and there's a Sale Date in your Desired Results picture that's not in Table 1.

You'll generally find most people around...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Neil Burton.

select 
LEFT(filename,LEN(filename)-CHARINDEX('\',REVERSE(filename)))
from master..sysaltfiles

That should do it.

DECLARE 
@String VARCHAR(100) = 'CKflower2002-pouch-5AR-OneSize'
select 
SUBSTRING(@string,PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@string),PATINDEX('%[^0-9a-z]%',@string)-PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@string))

That will work for whatever the first delimiter is and for any length of string before the numbers.  It does...

From the post:

Not sure where this is useful or why it's there, but if anyone uses this, let us know.

If you yabingle "quirky update", you'll find examples of...

DECLARE 
@String VARCHAR(100) = 'CKflower2002-pouch-5AR-OneSize'
select 
SUBSTRING(@string,PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@string),PATINDEX('%[^0-9a-z]%',@string)-PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@string))

That will work for whatever the first delimiter is and for any length of string before the numbers.  It does assume that...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Neil Burton.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Neil Burton.

select REPLACE(REPLACE(SUBSTRING('CKnovelty2002_pouch-5AR-OneSize',1,CHARINDEX('_','CKnovelty2002_pouch-5AR-OneSize',1) - 1),'CKnovelty',''),'CKflower','')

Your CHARINDEX was looking for '-' rather than '_'.

don't - I went once and it was "an experience" (this is from Wikipedia)

Kæstur hákarl, fermented Greenland shark.

Súrsaðir hrútspungar, the testicles of rams pressed in blocks, boiled...

The end of last month was fantastic because I had a week in...

You need to run

EXEC sp_rename

and remove the ''GO'.  That is a batch separator so your IF is technically in a different piece of code from your ELSE.

If I remember rightly it's something to do with execution plans that use temp tables but don't take my word for that.

This post helped me in a similar situation.  There might be a couple of other things you need to do but that was a good place to start.

Sometimes a loop is the best way to do something.  Doing something iteratively can be one of those times.  Have you tested the performance of a loop? Do you know...

Stopped gigging a while back, now it is only for my personal pleasure (read: when no one else is at home)

Same here, it's one of the disadvantages to the 9-5...