This is close... hopefully someone can figure out the one part I can't.

I wonder if I can upload .rar files... wish me luck.

• This reply was modified 1 day, 20 hours ago by  pietlinden.

Phil,

I got the REPLACE stuff to work consistently correctly only if I looped (yep, dirty word) until all the double spaces were replaced. For example, if the input string had...

use REPLACE

Don't you determine entities and relationships first, and then determine groupings of those and put those into schemas?

Your questions are REALLY vague. Maybe you should clarify them.

Okay, here's my screenshot. It's starting to make more sense. If I move up the hierarchy from a leaf node to the root, I just multiply the quantity at each...

Jeff,

(and Steve, who's kinda busy this week) and anybody else... for grins, I did a PPT of this so I could see the hierarchy and understand what's going on "in...

Jeff,

Gotta get some sleep... Just got home, so I'll do it in the morning sometime. It's a really simple tree with 3 levels, but I think it's enough to get...

Just to explain it to myself or visualize what's going on, I drew a tree of parts with assemblies etc. I started with something I could get my head around...

Something like this? (Use a Calendar table).

use tempdb;
GO
-- count the dates between two days excluding weekends
CREATE TABLE #Calendar (TheDate DATE PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED);
GO
DECLARE @TheDate  DATE = '01-Jan-2019'
WHILE...

Got some dummy data? Create table script... you know the drill.

That’s what I was thinking. Get max of level and return all parts having that same level.

Makes sense! Thanks!

This worked... ugly, but it worked:

DECLARE @string VARCHAR(200) = 'All I want (for Christmas) is better (TSQL) coding skills (this year).'
--remove everything between parens
--remove the parens
DECLARE @StartPos...

Use CHARINDEX() to find the position of the open/close parens, and then use SUBSTRING() to get the parts between them, and REPLACE() to swap that with an empty string?

Sounds like...

Aaron,

is there an easy way to identify those?

Pieter

Live and learn, I guess.

I might have to revisit this and rewrite it when I learn how to do it better. I think part of the challenge is that it's...