Would have sworn there was a handy article by Perry Whittle or Lynn Pettis that covers useful date functions, but I can't find it right now... but this one looks...

Okay, that was fun. Finally gave up and reset my install of Win10, and reinstalled all the software. apparently some settings somewhere went haywire, causing the SQL/Azure Data Tools install...

Use a matrix in SSRS?

Normally, you do this in the UI... either PowerBI or Excel... unless you don't want to ever see that data.

you can create a stored procedure and then use that as...

Is this a question lost in a time warp or something? SQL 2012 is lpretty much 10 years old and out of support or a while. So why would you...

How long does it take? I'm just wondering, because this installer seems to park at the "loading..." screen forever and ever. (A good 10-15 mins?) Maybe i should start it...

(Notes from the field: I worked in a place where they didn't know how to normalize... As a result, I was there for 8 months instead of maybe a week....

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by pietlinden.

CAST('Action - 1. Analysing' AS DATE) END

'Action -1. Analysing' is a string that cannot be coerced to date. If that's supposed to be a column in your table, then wrap...

You mentioned a Fact table... you usually only have that kind of thing in a data warehouse. Where are you analyzing said data? Because the way you would answer this...

you need LEAD() to get the next row. See here

You'd put the PartNum in the OVER clause and then ORDER BY EffectiveDate

Couldn't you just use NTILE() to split the file into a given number of pieces?

DECLARE @Tiles INT;
SELECT @Tiles = CEILING(COUNT(*)/10000)
FROM dbo.CovidData;

SELECT 
bucketNo = NTILE(@Tiles) OVER (ORDER BY...

If I were you, I would get out a whiteboard (or piece of paper) and draw / diagram this:

1. a company can have many workers(01,02)  Company ---(1,M)--Worker
2. worker can have...

views/stored procedures to hide columns from some users --Sure, you wouldn't let just anyone see a patient's Social Security Number, for example. If you did, and someone misused it, that...

No problem. Just looking for general directions. I think I can figure the rest out myself. (Well, I hope I can!)

bcp out