Most folks here won't touch an Excel file. Make life easy on everyone and post the setup script for your question... something like this:

use tempdb;
go

CREATE TABLE SalesTable...

Did someone restore a bunch of databases recently? Sounds like someone replaced the reports database with an old version, because it would cause your SSRS instance to suddenly look like...

Why do you feel you need views of all the tables? Are you trying to return a fixed subset of the rows in the table? If it's for reporting, then...

You have to split the values first, so you have a normalized structure so you can do the aggregation.  I used Jeff Moden's DelimitedSplit8K function

SELECT Lang2,...

Looking at the 4394 records which have some value for SupplierID in PharmInventoryIn I've seen up to 5 trades back and forth between us and different distributors. And that's not...

NTILE(n) will divide the set into n nearly evenly sized chunks. Not sure how you would force full groups into a single "chunk" though

This looks like it...

 SELECT * FROM #tblTemp
WHERE (ICategory = 'Bar1' AND iValues = '2QT')
OR ICategory = 'Bar2';

Use CONVERT() to remove the time part...

DECLARE @MyTimeStamp DATETIME = GETDATE();  -- date and time "now"
PRINT @MyTimeStamp;  -- prints the date and time
PRINT CONVERT(date,@MyTimeStamp); -- prints just...

You have to query the system tables for the list of tables matching your criteria, and then use a cursor to delete them (because you have to do it one...

???

You left out (1) what is "this"... the code? and (2) what are you trying to accomplish? Show everyone's days they won't be at work? (so unpacking the interval between...

This is odd. I can connect to SQL Server from Python if I use a File DSN... this mess works:

import pyodbc 

print('running a stored procedure to analyze...

Where are your tables? Are they both in SQL Server or is one still in Access? If one is still in Access, where are you running this query from?

You may...

It would likely depend on how the indexes on the tables in the query.

How many records are you talking about?

without sample data, there's no way for me to tell. Screenshots show me the results of your query, but it doesn't give me any data to work with.

And what does...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by pietlinden.

Running totals are easy if you use a windowing function. These have been around since 2012.

SELECT CustomerID,

running_total = SUM([InvoiceAmount]) OVER (PARTITION BY CustomerID ORDER BY InvoiceDate ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING...