Duplicate of https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/row_number-issue

Duplicate of https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/row_number-issue

In general, it's better to avoid nesting views -- so for your case, make the view you want from the two base tables.

Why?

• Reduces ambiguity for those that need to...

NOT IN -- i.e.,

server_principal_name NOT IN (N'mydomain\!sqlmonitoring',N'myDomain\myServiceAccount')

Are there concerns about PII? Does data need to be anonymized?

How long do backup & restore take?

Are one or both environments virtualized?

Are they on same LAN? Have disk and network health & performance been tested? Results? What is I/O locally...

It sounds like you're trying to reinvent sequence or identity. Why not just use a sequence?

Did you actually move the files (e.g., using file explorer, powershell, robocopy) before executing alter database? ALTER DATABASE doesn't do that -- just registers the new location.

If so, it sounds...

Removed duplicate post following gateway error message.

Does the code actually work?

That looks confusingly written, if not wrong, because the on statements for the joins do not always directly follow the table they are joining.

The second ON...

Does SQL Server have permissions to write to that folder?

Are you getting any error messages?

Are you executing in SSMS? If so, does the login have permissions to write to that...

You don't appear to have included the solution you wanted us to review.

Agreed 😀

Duplicate of https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/dates-about-sql-oracle

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sql-docs/issues/3933:

"The 'DateTime' data type has not been declared as Deprecated. There is nothing more to say about the continuing status of DateTime, nor about any other data type."

timestamp data...