Go back and ask said DBA why he wants this. Sounds absurd. The nice thing about stored procedures is that you can assign rights to them. you can't do that...

If you have a Calendar table, this is infinitely easier. You would outer join Calendar to your Trips table and then aggregate on columns in the Calendar table (Year, Month,...

You need to calculate the month from the date. A date is just a number...

SELECT MONTH(start_date), COUNT(*) AS Count
FROM trips
WHERE YEAR(start_date) = 2016
GROUP BY MONTH(start_date);

.What if you automated Excel to write the values somewhere? Assign the values to variables (one for the file name too), and then maybe have a connection to your database...

If you add a Calendar table and put the FM, FY in there as columns, then this is trivial.

Are you just adjusting for a Fiscal Year or similar? You could do that with a Calendar table.

Essentially, you're just checking if the Customer has Instore sales and/or Online sales?
Can't you just do that with IF(COUNTROWS(RELATEDTABLE('Sales'))>1,1,0) and put it in the Customer table?  You might need...

SQL Sat Nashville is tomorrow... if you run fast, you could probably squeeze in a session or two.

Did you run the code to create the function? Sounds like you didn't.

Oh, okay. Thanks! I'll have a play with it and see how I make out.

Like this?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/420741/getting-list-of-tables-and-fields-in-each-in-a-database

 I suppose you could easily find non-matching tables by grouping on column name and getting COUNT = 1?

SQLCompare by RedGate does that, I...

Figured out a small piece of this that was still wrong. I needed to change so that I get the MAX level for each course. Then it makes sense.  (Because...

Here's an example I shamelessly  copied out of Itzik Ben-Gan's T-SQL Querying book:
SELECT custID, orderID, orderDate, val,
    SUM(val) OVER (PARTITION BY custid, YEAR(orderDate)
                    ORDER BY orderDate
                    RANGE...