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  • Reply To: leave entitlement and balance

    Again, as I noted above, the current leave status (30/365 in this case) should be stored in the main employee "header"/"master" table.  Prior leave status(es) (21/365 in this case) would be...

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  • Reply To: Other methods of getting the true length of UTF8 String?

    DATALENGTH() is supposed to return the byte length of the entire value.  Is is not doing that?  MS's doc seem to imply that it should (then again, we've all seen...

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  • Reply To: Other methods of getting the true length of UTF8 String?

    Is your db at compatibility 150 level?  I know it almost certainly is, but I'm trying to think of anything that might cause DATALENGTH() to not work correctly (and I...

    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: leave entitlement and balance

    The employee's current leave status (yes/no, days/year) can go in the main employee table.  It should be encoded, such as a tinyint.  If the leave status changes, you store 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: Can TVF have a PK or there is a bug in my query?

    It would be helpful if you could give us the definitions of all the objects involved.

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  • Reply To: Understanding execution plan query

    Yes, I believe you reading of the original plan was correct.

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  • Reply To: SQL_variant to varchar error

    I believe the error was because the first data type returned by the CASE is a varchar -- specifically 'Default Memory Settings - needs to be configured' -- and thus...

    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_variant to varchar error

    You can fix the immediate problem by changing the code like so:

    else cast(value_in_use as varchar(50)) end as SQLMemoryInUse

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  • Reply To: ROWLOCK UPDLOCK - Locks whole table

    I'd expect maybe a Shared lock and even a Schema lock on the table, but I don't think SQL would need to exclusively lock the table.

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  • Reply To: Does T-SQL have a way of truncating real and float values?

    If you CAST the value to a different data type, such as decimal, SQL will automatically round the value for that type, so you will have to do a ROUND...

    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: Code to auto-update tables on set date

    Should I add the Semester_ID Reference here?

    I guess.  What you really need to do is step back and do a true logical data model first including normalization.  Your current table structures...

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  • Reply To: Code to auto-update tables on set date

    thetubageek wrote:

    Also, btw, the data model you have is not correct.  You should have a separate "master" Course table, with nothing about semester in it, that contains core info about...

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  • Reply To: Index scan

    It's likely your PK on Inventory should be ( WarehouseID, ProductID ), at least based on that query (of course if you have a significant number of queries that use...

    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: convert scalar function to table valued function

    I'd need directly usable sample data for the holiday table -- CREATE TABLE and INSERT statement(s) -- to correct this for 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".

  • Reply To: difference between two times

    The problem is that you multiplied the minutes difference by 60; just get rid of the "60*".


    SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(5), DATEADD(MINUTE, (DATEDIFF(MINUTE,CAST(@hFrom +':'+@mFrom AS TIME), CAST(@hTo +':'+ @mTo...

    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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