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  • Reply To: suggestions on making more efficient and faster

    We need to see the DDL for the two tables, including all index definitions.

    Btw, if the tables really were "properly indexed", you wouldn't be having big performance issues on this...

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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.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • 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?!

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • 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...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • 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

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • 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...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • 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...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • 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.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • 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.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • 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...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

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