John,

Good point. The hard part for me is the "can't get a job without experience, can't get experience without a job" conundrum.

I did write one not terribly complex database...

I think this is the answer:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/sqlserver/en-US/138fc2df-ff40-42a5-adc1-1b3f728737c2/sql-query-permutations-without-repetition

what database engine are you writing against? HeidiSQL?

"If i try to run it against the database server using Heidi sql."

Is this a SQL Server database?

If you're using SQL Server, I would look here... just because it's a...

Exercise your Google-Fu.

Here[/url]'s one.

If you google it, you'll find more answers than you can shake a stick at.

Maybe start here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

and maybe this:

http://spaghettidba.com/?s=how+to+post

Look at your question from our perspective. How are we to test any of it? Without data, we can't. If you set up the...

Got some table definitions and some fake data? (Fake if it's confidential... representative is fine). And expected output?

Why do you want to use cursors for this? "Cursor" is a dirty word around here. You could probably do all this with either aggregate or window functions.

If your goal is to show all the sales from the latest sale date, then no.

Sorry, didn't read very carefully...

I think this will do what you want... or most of it.

DECLARE @Date1 DATE = '10-Aug-2015',

@Date2 DATE = '07-Sep-2015'

,@Diff INT

SELECT @Diff = ABS(DATEDIFF(day,@Date1,@Date2));

PRINT @Diff;

the ABS() removes...

For grins, create a dummy table and just copy a bunch of tweet URLs, and see if they work. That's where I got them for my report. If that...

What can't you see?

Sounds like homework. Show us what you tried.

What happened when you ran the query to see if there were any "illegal" hyperlinks?

The INSERT statement should have nothing to do with it, but it's your database,...

Table 1 has "Gender" field with "Male" and "Female" in it, table 2 has "Gender" field with "M" and "F" in it. a query to compare data and list the...