Very good question. You've given me something to consider. Like many, I tend to tack on such metadata/tracking columns w/o question. But as they are all part of the clustered...

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• TSQL does not support regex natively, & therefore you probably won't do regex in...

AFAIK, S3 is your only viable option for RDS external file access.

So what does the following (w/o the casts) return?

It's probable that one or more of those INFO values still contains non-numeric characters, is decimal, or is even bigger than a...

Probably Elasticsearch using Ingest Attachment Processor or Apache Tika.

Otherwise, if you're happy with iFilter, pay FoxIt. Elasticsearch is very powerful, but the costs to develop & implement the new approach...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41387964/displaying-long-text-object-in-ssrs-report

Do you really have 500-character IDs?  Such a long ID seems unusual and non-ideal.  At 500 bytes, only a few rows will fit in an 8K database page. If so,...

What is the datatype/size of tbl_File.MetaData? (wondering why are you casting the type in the replace statement)?

Do you have MetaData column values that contain "Category=" that do not have a...

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This is precisely what foreign keys are for.

Is ItemNumber in the transaction table equivalent to the ProductId in the master table?

It's not a csv. There is no single, consistent delimiter.  This is invalid json. json keys/names should be enclosed in quotes. Those that contain delimiters must be enclosed in quotes.

If this...

Be methodical. Understand the relationships and data.

Look for obvious contradictions in the where clauses -- where StartDate > '2021-08-19' AND StartDate < '2021-08-01' will filter out everything.

Then look for typos...

I'm guessing you meant a UDF (user-defined function) or more specifically, an ITVF (inline-table valued function) rather than a CTE, since a common table expression doesn't really seem to enhance...

You need to wrap

(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM .[dbo].[Stage_SMSLog] 
with (NOLOCK) WHERE datestamp = CONVERT(nvarchar(10), GetDate(),120))

in CAST or CONVERT when concatenating into nvarchar (or varchar) string using "+"

(CONCAT function...

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