(Is it a good idea to record the size of the various tables you want to track by inserting the recordcounts for each into a static table?)

I've done this by...

WHERE NAME NOT LIKE 'RECA-%'

This will replace the values (overwrite them):

use tempdb;
go

CREATE TABLE Vals(Val VARCHAR(20));
GO
INSERT INTO Vals VALUES
('AAAB-AA-43-DDD-2')
,('RECA-AA-3-CCC-1')
,('RECA-AB-31-abc-1')
,('RECA-C-3-T');

UPDATE Vals
SET Val = REPLACE(Val,'RECA-','')
WHERE Val LIKE 'RECA-%';

If you just want to find them,...

Can't you just add all the objects you want to be in every one of your databases to the model database?

if you want to add all the objects after the...

I'm dumb as a rock, but wouldn't you do that with a delete trigger? Inside the trigger, you'd use the Deleted virtual table, and insert those records into some other...

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.

Learning T-SQL in a few easy steps...

1. Walk across the room.
2. Take down either copy of T-SQL Fundamentals from the shelf.
3. Open up to the relevant section.
4. RTFM.

Congratulations.

"Reading Is Fundamental"...

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...

Pros and cons of six SQL table tools – SQLServerCentral

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...