You don't need to return any columns inside the EXISTS clause. You could just write

WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM MyTable....)

4 hours seems excessive. Are the join columns on the two tables indexed? Did you look at the execution plan?

What's your SQL query look like? Something like this? (The FREEPROCCACHE...

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I have a Problem in my code

Any tips ?

For starters, how about actually posting the code you're having a problem with?

The "most" bit is confusing. I thought you said you...

divide by the number of cars on an invoice?

Sounds like this would work most easily using AVERAGE windowing function. Just use the PARTITION BY part to do your grouping.

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The table does not have an index that I can use to speed up the join and I have tried using a where in clause so there is no Cartesian...

Seems like the obvious answer is to filter out the days where a table has no records. You could just use LAG() to get the previous recorded day's record count....

Not totally sure I understand your question, but if you're wondering how to get the data from your stored procedure into Excel, it's pretty easy.

Go to Data tab, Get Data,...

Well, here's a start at least...

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Okay, I feel stupid. I'm thinking I should be able to do this using a CTE and and update query. Would I have to convert this to a table-valued function...

You need to use CROSS APPLY for this... the standard way of doing it (I'm gonna cheat and use Products and SalesLineItems) is like this:

SELECT p.ProductName, ca.SalePrice, ca.SalesQty, ca.SaleDate

FROM Products...

Thanks Steve. Just wanted to geocode a bunch of addresses in my database.

Not 100% sure this works... but it should at least give you some ideas... If you use LAG(), you can get the "previous" record (in time order) and see if...

If you're trying to do an exact match, it's just:

WHERE [ColumnName] = 'LifeCare Amb MH'

Starts with and ends with is easy:

WHERE [ColumnName] LIKE 'LifeCare Amb MH%'

WHERE [ColumnName] LIKE '%LifeCare Amb...

Are you searching for an exact match or just records that contain "LifeCare Amb MH"?

Since you didn't provide any consumable data, it's hard(er) to figure out what the problem is....