It's not fully explained imo.  The SELECT above the UNION ALL is summarizing 'Wet Feed' tons per hour?  The SELECT below the UNION ALL is 'Dry Feed'?  It appears you're...

The OP said they're going to migrate to a newer version. ...

After the update the code could look something like this

drop TABLE if exists #Invoices
go
CREATE TABLE #Invoices(
[InvoiceID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[InvoiceDate] [smalldatetime] NULL,
[Total] [decimal](18, 2) NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Invoices] PRIMARY...

The lazy programmers' way to delete from complex data structures is to get a data comparison tool to generate the SQL DELETE transaction.  Where I work we've used 2 different...

Steve... the OP has posted in a 2005 forum which is before SUM() OVER had the ability to produce a running sum.  I'm thinking we're going to need another...

You could try something like this

drop table if exists #MyTempTable
go
create table #MyTempTable(
  EE        int not null,
  EffDate ...

When "trying to get all combinations..." it usually means CROSS JOIN.  In this case the distinct year/month dates are selected in the CTE.  Then the CTE is 'row multiplied' or...

Oh wait I think I see what you're saying now.  It should subtract 2 days from the current month 2nd Thursday to compare with the current date.  The query could...

It depends on what the "today" date is, no?

CASE 2 - If Today is 1 Dec 2020 - Then, The output should be (12 Nov 2020) -

Reason,  10 Dec 2020...

Here's a tvf

drop function if exists dbo.fn_test_scnd_thurs;
go
create function dbo.fn_test_scnd_thurs(
  @test_date          date)
returns table
as return 
select dateadd(day, 9, calc_dt.dt)...

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Ah I didn't see what was posted.  My...

Steve, if you're going to use the fnTally function, you need to tell people where to get it.  Since I use it so often, I just put the link...

Even if fnTally is not available it's still a useful article to read.  Any table with reliably more than 31 rows could be used tho.   In this case I created...

When you write "which is followed with..." it seems you're intending it to mean "which follows the..."?   The following has 2 Common Table Expressions: 1) 'test_tues_cte' which contains all of...

The JSON is oddly formed.  Are you 100% sure this is the format required?  The inner JSON items are in array list format but there's no array wrapper. I don't...