Not really. This assumes that nobody has a name like "Billy Joe" or a last name with spaces in it either... which is a gross simplification.

SELECT LEFT(FullName,CHARINDEX(' ',FullName)-1) AS...

I am designing an application where multiple users can be assign to a product for review. If a user doesn't have access to the product, they are not allowed to...

What did you try?

Did you try using CHARINDEX?

Can you subclass the entities? Essentially, the "main" table has an autoincrement primary key, and the "child"/subclass tables just inherit that key from Main. There's a really simple...

Are you trying to insert the entire PDF into a column in a table in your database? It's not entirely clear from your post.

Interesting... Thanks Sean and Luis for the gentle "schooling". I'll have to add that to my SSC database (the stuff I brazenly steal from here... hey, gotta learn somehow!)

Maybe I...

Nitin,

The short answer to your question is to use DelimitedSplit8K[/url] to split the text strings into different columns and then deal with those.

This was my first try splitting (just so...

Glenn,

any chance you could provide a create table script and some dummy records? Are all the records in the same table?

thanks,

Pieter

Oh, I understand now. You wanted to change the color of the individual values on the timeline/X-axis when the value is on a weekend. Don't know how to do...

" I can tell consistently when the parameter dropdown list will have values and when it will not have values."

how? psychic powers?

Could it be a timeout?

Watch Kendra Little's video[/url]...

See #6. and the video that goes with it.

She and Brent Ozar know more about SQL Server than I probably ever will. And they know what they're...

Exercise your Google-fu. Found a bunch of hits in less than a second.

sys.dm_os_volume_stats - see example A.

An example from SQLMag...

Sounds like you might need a report or something that...

Olaf,

I got it to work, sort of. (Well, in my bar graph.)

I created a simple bar graph with (Date, Value), so the x-axis represents dates. If you right-click on a...

Nice solution, but where did OrderDate go?

I did the query in 2012 (Yes, I did read that you were using 2008... solution to follow) This was the SQL statement - super easy once Windowing functions...