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  • Reply To: String Manipulation Work?

    I can't tell specifically what you want.  Here's by best guess without further details from you:

    ;WITH cte_state_max_sales AS (
    SELECT StateCode, MAX(Sales) AS Sales...

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  • Reply To: T-SQL SubQuery Help Please

    SQL Server does not automatically determine a row sequence, so you'll need a column in Table B that provides an order, such as an date_inserted or a $IDENTITY column.  For...

    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: Sequences

    If there's still interest for this, I'd be happy to write an article about Sequences, with: set up; uses, including shared uses across many tables; possible issues; etc..

    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 with non-clustered index fragmentation

    You may not be rebuilding that specific index.

    The easiest way to rebuild all indexes on a table is:

    ALTER INDEX ALL ON dbo.POHeader REBUILD

    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 query - Projected Monthly Revenue

    The linked article states that "If a date is neither a holiday, nor a weekend day, it is a workday."  But that's not true.  Businesses may be shut because 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".

  • Reply To: Sql query - Projected Monthly Revenue

    The Dixie Flatline wrote:

    It's easy and flexible to include weekends in a Calendar table, usually with two flags one that says weekends, one that says holidays.  Sometimes Christmas falls on a Saturday,...

    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 filtering my WHERE clause

    Hmm, I don't believe I used a CROSS TAB.  Yes, I used a CASE in a SUM, but not in a CROSS TAB fashion, from my understanding of a CROSS...

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  • Reply To: Sql query - Projected Monthly Revenue

    Sergiy wrote:

    gjoelson 29755 wrote:

    Good Point Sergiy.

    Public holidays are also excluded.   , but right now Id just like to solve the weekends and then see if there is a solution for hoildays...

    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 query - Projected Monthly Revenue

    You're welcome!  Yeah, I'm sorry too, but I couldn't figure out exactly what values to return in what columns based on your original query, so I was kinda' forced to...

    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: Excessive Blocking despite Read Committed Snapshot Isolation

    Also, be aware RCSI has a 14 byte per row added overhead.  If there isn't space available in the existing data pages, you can likely expect a lot of page splits...

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  • Reply To: Sql query - Projected Monthly Revenue

    Sergiy wrote:

    gjoelson 29755 wrote:

    ... The problem is, we don't ship on the weekends  ie. Sat and SunThe problem is, we don't ship on the weekends  ie. Sat and Sun ...  

    Do...

    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 query - Projected Monthly Revenue

    gjoelson 29755 wrote:

    Thank you for your guidance and reformatting this...it is helpful.

    However the main calculation that I'm looking for is to  figure out how to add the days and exclude the...

    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 query - Projected Monthly Revenue

    I've added some date calc ctes before the query to isolate the date calcs from the main query (also makes it much easier to test them standalone for assorted dates). ...

    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 filtering my WHERE clause

    No problem.  I don't have a real problem with CROSS APPLY, other than the performance hit.  I personally am not a big fan of UNPIVOT, I find the syntax kludgy...

    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 filtering my WHERE clause

    You really don't need UNPIVOT or CROSS APPLY for this.  They do add some overhead.

    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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