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  • Reply To: Sql query to check change for an item

    drew.allen wrote:

    I think this approach relies on data quality that isn't necessarily guaranteed.  For instance, if the two statuses were "Presentation" moving to "Approve", the LAG() method would catch it,...

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  • Reply To: Sql query to check change for an item

    LAG, which compares rows within the window partition, is not strictly necessary imo.  JOIN relates to a lookup table containing the values sequence.  Also, I'm not a fan of ordering...

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  • Reply To: A Design Question using a fictious example

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    > What difference the client is a phone? <<

    Because to determine all the Tests that haven't been fully graded could require scanning a very large number of StudentGrade rows.

    If,...

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  • Reply To: A Design Question using a fictious example

    eichnerm wrote:

    Thanks for getting back to me.

    I have always been hesitant to use a flag in one table when I could get that same information using a database query. Since...

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  • Reply To: How to manage Time zone changes for countries

    gauravkumar9 wrote:

    To maintain each country's local time, we have collected their respective time zones. Initially, everything worked fine. However, as time passed, some countries requested changes to their time zones...

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  • Reply To: Generating (semi-)fake purchase data

    Hi pietlinden, maybe you want to generate random prices for a base price of 50, plus or minus 5.  Or maybe you want a base price of 50, plus or...

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  • Reply To: Generating (semi-)fake purchase data

    You're already generating a series using dbo.fnTally so maybe raise fn.N by an exponent power.  Either POWER or EXP function

    declare @increase_pct      ...

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  • Reply To: Two queries or one?

    Yes so I went with 2 queries.  Just because it's possible to jimmy horn different sets in the WHERE clause doesn't mean it's a good idea

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  • Reply To: Closest to ProcDate

    Alternately

    with rn_cte as (
    select pv.PatID, pv.AcctID, pv.ProcDate,
    iif(v.abs_diff>=2, null, dv.Department) Department,
    ...

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  • Reply To: Find rows with very close time stamps

    If any consecutive click within 2 seconds is sufficient then the query posted looks ok 🙂

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  • Reply To: Find rows with very close time stamps

    daytonbrown2 wrote:

    Given the following table and query, this will return any records(based on message_id) that have timestamps within 2 seconds.  This works and gives me the correct output.

    The query...

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  • Reply To: strange selection for update

    Instead of typing up an example I pasted your code next to a table from another topic and then did cut/paste/replace the column names.  "...ts.PKey is not column of subquery"...

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  • Reply To: strange selection for update

    joerg.kannengiesser wrote:

    your are right: using a qualifier results in an error (unknown column):

    update TempSel set WertA = 'TEST' where PKey in 
    (select Q1.PKey from (select PKey as...

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  • Reply To: From each string, extract numbers following a '#' and create separate row

    Or what's the question?  It seems the topic's scope has crept after solutions were posted

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  • Reply To: From each string extract Numbers following a '#' and create separate row

    SqlRookie wrote:

    ... extract all numbers which follow a '#' and then create a new row for each. 

    So far I'm not seeing a solution for which each character returned is an...

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