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First Possibility:
Restore the last backup of the db to a different db name, then copy the table employee table from the restored db over the employee table in the original...
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".
December 28, 2020 at 6:37 am
Two decimal places is the default when coverting from money to char. From MS docs, "CAST and CONVERT":
"
money
0 (default)
No commas every three digits to the left of the decimal point, and...
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".
December 23, 2020 at 7:32 pm
Was anything resolved on the earlier q where you asked about this?
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".
December 23, 2020 at 1:48 am
You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback.
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".
December 21, 2020 at 6:48 pm
,SUM(CASE WHEN ServCode = 'MST' THEN 1 WHEN ServCode = 'S&M' THEN 1 WHEN RepairCodes.[Service] = 'Y' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS [SERVICE]
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".
December 21, 2020 at 3:56 pm
In SQL Server, there is a way to assign a usable column alias, using CROSS APPLY:
SELECT TOP (1000) ST100
FROM CONSUL AS CD
LEFT JOIN table2 AS [Sx] ON...
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".
December 21, 2020 at 8:24 am
Double any existing single quotes in the data:
... + REPLACE(data, '''', '''''') /*make every ' in the data become '' */ + ...
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".
December 19, 2020 at 3:17 am
I've never seen an UPDATE pattern that bizarre in over 30 years in IT. From 6 to 16,000,000? I can't even imagine the business case that would cause...
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".
December 19, 2020 at 3:14 am
In SQL 2016, it's rarely a waste of disk space. Specifying ROW compression is standard procedure for all tables unless there's a specific reason not to.
"Standard Procedure...
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".
December 18, 2020 at 10:01 pm
I still prefer my single int as a metakey method. 16 bytes is a lot of overhead for a linking key. I don't see an advantage to it. ...
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".
December 18, 2020 at 9:57 pm
I still prefer my single int as a metakey method. 16 bytes is a lot of overhead for a linking key. I don't see an advantage to it. And 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".
December 18, 2020 at 5:14 pm
And what if one or more of the column values change?
Like I said in the comments in the code...
-- You...
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".
December 18, 2020 at 5:09 am
And what if one or more of the column values change?
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".
December 17, 2020 at 7:16 pm
Only someone with full sysadmin authority can change a job's owner.
Typically after the job is fully debugged and running normally, sysadmin changes the job owner to a standard job-running account.
If...
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".
December 17, 2020 at 5:24 am
I added an RTRIM to get rid of any trailing space(s). Naturally if you don't want to do that, delete the RTRIM from the code.
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".
December 17, 2020 at 5:16 am
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