You're welcome.

I was asking because if you're doing this in PowerBI, and using DAX, then you should use a star schema instead of an OLTP one. The easiest way of...

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DATE2 >= '01-01-2021' AND DATE2 <'01-01-2022' ORDER BY DATE2 DESC;

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You can script table creation and inserts and copy them to the clipboard and...

I was asking because you can do things in DAX that are crazy hard in SQL. Like removing filters by using the ALL() function.

If you have to learn DAX, Rob...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by pietlinden.

I am inserting SQL code into a data visualization tool

Which one? If you're using Excel or PowerBI, you can very likely use DAX for this. (Except DAX is not like...

Since a MERGE is basically an INSERT/UPDATE, and you have 3 possible caes, you might want to just skip the MERGE and use separate INSERT/UPDATE statements.

IF (TestInvalid)

BEGIN

INSERT INTO FailTable()....

END

ELSE

IF EXISTS().... ...

If it's not working when it's crazy complex, why not simplify and built it a piece at a time?

The error message is pretty clear. Any time you create a totals/aggregate...

IF <test>

BEGIN

SELECT... FROM...WHERE... <params>

END

ELSE

SELECT...FROM WHERE <different params>

There's nothing stopping you from forking the two queries with an IF statement.

What do you mean "second temp table"? You can define multiple CTEs inside your expression, and then just use them both/all in the final one.

WITH cte1 (col1, col2, col3)

AS (SELECT...),

cte2(colA,...

COALESCE(column,0) ?

Totally missed it... sounds like the classic Islands problem. (Clump all contiguous spans together).

SQL Server Window Functions Gaps and Islands Problem (mssqltips.com)

If you need to look at previous or next records in a set, use LAG() or LEAD() with an OVER clause. then you can use conditional logic to see if...

Without the CREATE TABLE and INSERT scripts, all we can do is guess. Could you post them?

so you're looking for a date where there are no scheduling conflicts? (the span of the meeting doesn't overlap/conflict with any meetings of any of the invited participants)?

Sorry, it's just...

The dead giveaway that you're new to SQL is that you said these were complex.

What did you try? Post the SQL. People will help you if you do that. If...