Where to start...

you need to get the age of each sale (or whatever it is) in days, so you can put them into [1-30], [31-60], [61-90] days old bins...

I'm calculating...

Welcome to SSC,

Since you're new here, the first thing you should learn about is how to ask a good question. Jeff Moden wrote a terrific article on it, which...

You should definitely read the article Jeff suggested. It's the only reason I'm thinking I shouldn't post this yet. It's just one of those "Ask a better question to get...

Welcome to SSC.

You should read Jeff Moden's articles on Crosstabs, and how to post a question[/url]. Especially the latter, since you're new here.

Then there's Jeff's articles on Crosstabs/Pivots

First...

Jeff,

My first thought was to be lazy and use DelimitedSplit8K but that would turn each occurrence into a separate record, right?

You're welcome. Post back if you need more help. Here's my stub code.

use tempdb;

GO

DECLARE @TestString VARCHAR(250) = 'C1 User Unable to Log in C2 User did not set password...

CHARINDEX requires 3 arguments, not 2.

I would start by doing something simple...

declare 3 variables of type INT and then get the position of C1, C2, C3. Then get the stuff...

What message was returned when you tried it?

Luis' answer is super cool...

The Calendar table has some advantages... you can filter out any pattern you want (certain days of the week, days of year, etc) and its super...

So it's simple.

do an outer join to get the non-matching records, then wrap that in an insert statement.

INSERT INTO DestinationTable(col1, col2, col3)

SELECT colA, colB, colC

FROM SourceTableA a

LEFT JOIN SourceTableB b

ON...

If you want to add the non-matching records and update the existing ones, read this thread... Paul White knows his stuff.

You would need another table containing all the names, and then outer join it.

SELECT n.FirstName

, tS.CaseID

,...

You could start with a standard Calendar/Date table and then add the Fiscal Month, Quarter, Year etc.

Here's [/url]a basic Calendar table

This one[/url] might be good for a Calendar dimension...

but...

There are Calendar table examples here...

Here's [/url]a really good intro

and then Marie Bayer wrote a bunch of scripts for creating them... here

You need a calendar table, though, so you can force the existence of days where there are no bookings. You do that like this:

SELECT ...

FROM Calendar c LEFT JOIN Booking...