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  • Reply To: Adding Case statement into Where

    For the pure SQL part, technically this could theoretically perform better since it avoids using functions on the table columns:

    WHERE (p.JCCo=@Company and p.Job=@Job AND Phase NOT LIKE...

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  • Reply To: Get last 30 minutes of activity from table

    Bruin wrote:

    So I'm looking for the most efficient way to pull the last 30 minutes of data from the table. This converts it to date\time I want to use DATEADD(s,t_stamp/1000,'1969-12-31...

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  • Reply To: Get last 30 minutes of activity from table

    Bruin wrote:

    Found that I had to use '1969-12-31 20:00:00' to get the correct datetime.  

    Be careful with that!  If you need UTC and "kludge" it this way instead, it may...

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  • Reply To: Get last 30 minutes of activity from table

    To get a UTC calc, just substitute GETUTCDATE() for GETDATE() in my code.

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  • Reply To: Get last 30 minutes of activity from table

    Hmm, looks like UTC time.

    Or something in the data -- i.e. it's not really ms since 1/1/70 -- or it's local time where the server is?!

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  • Reply To: Get last 30 minutes of activity from table

    I put no max time, so, yes, it would give you everything from then on.

    If you want to limit to the then-current time, do this:

    WHERE t_stamp >= DATEDIFF_BIG(MS, '19700101', GETDATE())...

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  • Reply To: How to break zipcodes fileds with leading zeros

    I'm unsure what value a leading '9' should yield as the slab#, it's not really clear from your OP.

    SELECT 
    LEFT(ZIP, 1) + CASE...

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  • Reply To: Get last 30 minutes of activity from table

    WHERE t_stamp >= DATEDIFF_BIG(MS, '19700101', GETDATE()) - (1000 * 60 * 30)

    Note that, for important performance reasons, you do not want to use any function at all on the column...

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  • Reply To: Manual SQL Deployment Script

    IF EXISTS(
    SELECT*
    FROMsys.columns
    WHEREName = N'ReferenceName'
    AND Object_ID = Object_ID(N'dbo.tbl_Reference')
    )
    BEGIN
    EXEC ('UPDATE [dbo].[tbl_Reference]
    SET ClientReferenceNumber = PARSENAME(REPLACE(ReferenceName,''_'',''.''),2)
    FROM dbo.[tbl_Reference]')
    END

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  • Reply To: Is there good practices on creating the database and schema using stored Proc?

    Create a "base" db with the schema, tables, etc. that you need.

    When you need to create a new db, restore a backup of that db to the new db name...

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  • Reply To: Help query to select part of string

    SELECT 
    STUFF(NAME, 1, CASE WHEN LEFT(NAME, 5) = 'RECA-' THEN 5 ELSE 0 END, '') AS NAME
    FROM dbo.table_name

    A potential problem with REPLACE is...

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  • Reply To: SQL Servers query time differences

    Why are using the RTM version instead of applying patches?  You'll have performance issues from that as well.

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  • Reply To: are varchar(max) columns always stored out-of-row?

    Actually, best is often to force max values out of row, for every row.  That is generally my preference, although naturally there are a few specific exceptions.

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  • Reply To: Index combining question

    Would have to see the query's use of col1 thru col8: in WHERE, JOINs, GROUP BY and even the SELECT itself.

    SQL Server's missing index feature doesn't properly "understand" the importance...

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  • Reply To: Trying to understand percent sign next to field name

    % returns a remainder from division.

    So, 1.1 % 1 yields 0.1.

    2.54 % 1 = 0.54

    3.0 % 1 = 0.

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