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Double any existing single quotes in the data:
... + REPLACE(data, '''', '''''') /*make every ' in the data become '' */ + ...
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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
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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
SELECT
string_to_parse,
CASE WHEN first_dash = 0 THEN ''
WHEN first_dash = last_dash...
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 15, 2020 at 10:46 pm
This looks to me like a Gaps and Islands query. Itzik Ben-Gan has posted numerous articles and written in books how best to solve those types of queries.
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 15, 2020 at 7:38 pm
You have some values that have leading zeros. Must the leading zeros be preserved? If so, then not all of the columns are actually INTs as 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 15, 2020 at 3:48 pm
nvm, OP obviously not interested at all in this approach.
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 14, 2020 at 11:52 pm
I was too enthousiastic. What I did was I only took the 7 character long records (WHERE LEN(column1)=7) and then applied the LEFT functions as indicatde above. But,...
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 14, 2020 at 10:51 pm
You have some values that have leading zeros. Must the leading zeros be preserved? If so, then not all of the columns are actually INTs as you said. Let...
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 14, 2020 at 10:50 pm
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