Like you, Window functions and CTEs changed the way I write a lot of my T-SQL. DROP … IF EXISTS also makes code much tidier.

When they made Developer Edition free...

Despite this being the same error message as the original post, you should really start a new thread, as it's likely a different issue causing the same error.

You do not...

Thanks for posting back. Glad it helped you.

This is still happening. Can anyone assist?

As I mentioned earlier, I have stopped receiving e-mail notifications of replies, for some reason.

The actual procs are not named with numbers! They are named based on the tables they...

PQ can be used in many other places, including Power...

Something like this?

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #product;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #VendorRank;

--Product table and data
CREATE TABLE #Product
(
    ProductID INT
  , ProductSKU INT
  ,...

Thanks, Brian. There is no parallelism requirement. The fact that T3 and T4 are at the same level implies only that they are independent of each other and can be...

Steve, thank you for taking the time to code and test this. I've not written many rCTEs in the past and my brain has trouble composing them. I'd tried and...

Wow, I just wrote a long response to Brian's message and after hitting Submit, I got an 'Are you sure you want to do that?' error and my text got...

I have not tested the script, but I am interested to hear of the use case.

Why would you do this in preference to simply doing a schema compare in a...

Are you requesting an article? Because that's the forum you're in.

Or simply regurgitating a load of AI-generated waffle?

I just set up five levels, and there's no end in sight, so that's a resounding 'yes'.

OK, so all of the steps need to be configured as 'On failure: go to the next step'

Your final step should be one which collects details of any execution errors...

Do you want the job to fail immediately, and stop, in the event of failure of any steps? Also, you want the e-mail to come from SQL Agent itself, is...