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  • Reply To: Copy tables from one db to another db

    For a little disk space, you can create staging tables in DB2.  Load to the staging tables.  You then don't need a separate back up of the original tables because...

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  • Reply To: Return incorrect numeric value

    I believe it's because you're doing "MAX" but the value is a string not a number.  Therefore '9' is greater than '10', or '1', so '9' becomes the MAX value. ...

    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: SELECT Name column from Name Table from either of 2 columns in main table

    If they log into SQL initially as themselves, ORIGINAL_LOGIN() might give you their own name rather than the generic name.  It may not, but it's worth a try first.

    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: Return incorrect numeric value

    DECLARE @cod_pattern varchar(50)
    SET @cod_pattern = 'NCREC-CL'+'.'+'CMP'+'-'+'%'

    ;WITH cte_next_numbers AS (
    SELECT LEFT(cod, cod_base_length) AS cod_base,
    MAX(CAST(SUBSTRING(cod, cod_base_length +...

    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: Substract 2 values

    Steve Collins wrote:

    Ok, Category appears to not be a reserved word and appears in white.  Period and Value are both blue.  So it's brackets, no brackets, and brackets instead of brackets,...

    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: CASE Statement with Dates in WHERE clause

    Ooh, right.  I tired to change the sort because you formatted BatchDatte to mm/dd/yyyy which will not sort correctly.

    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: CASE Statement with Dates in WHERE clause

    SELECT DISTINCT 
    BatchID, EDIProviderSort,
    CONVERT(varchar(10), BatchDateConv, 101) AS BatchDatte,
    DName

    FROM UPSBatchInvNo

    CROSS APPLY (
    SELECT...

    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: Database list and the last access date

    SQL Server doesn't store, and thus doesn't know, the "last accessed date" for each db.

    After SQL starts, when any index is accessed, an entry for that db and index 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: Space Error

    The first two are not full but don't have room to expand by the specified amount.

    Alter the first two files to have a maxsize of their current size.  That will...

    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: Substract 2 values

    Steve Collins wrote:

    with testCostTable([Period], [Category], [Value]) as (

    Also, the column names used are all SQL Server reserved words.  That's something many SQL developers find annoying :).  In my...

    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: Statistics Update Frequency

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Jackie Lowery wrote:

    What's the best way to know which index statistics need to be updated on a daily basis?  I currently update stats on Friday, but I've noticed SQL 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: Statistics Update Frequency

    That seems about right.  I'd say also consider doing tables every day that get a manual update in 2 days' time; they're close enough to once-a-day anyway to me.  "Better...

    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: Counting Instances in TEXT

     

    SELECT ca.name, ca.nentry
    FROM (
    SELECT
    SUM(CASE WHEN '.' + contents + '.' LIKE '%[^A-Za-z]bull[^A-Za-z]%' THEN 1 ELSE...

    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 this a RBAR?

    The Windowing functions tend to be extraordinarily efficient, so I'd do the request this way:

    SELECT DISTINCT f.[Id] AS [FormId], ver.[FormVersion]
    FROM @forms f
    LEFT OUTER JOIN (
    ...

    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: pagination with case

    In a CASE <condition> THEN <result>, the <result> must be a single value (technically called a "scalar" value).  Not allowed are SQL keywords or operators (>=, <) as part of...

    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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