Those statements look fine.  There must be one or more CREATE statements with some other syntax or name error which causes SQL to then misinterpret some SQL later on.

It's actually not a reserved SQL Server keyword.  [It is reserved in ODBC, but that's a...

You'll need to split the list of RelatedPlanNumbers, but that's easy enough:

AND PlanID IN
(SELECT
             ...

As I noted earlier, you could also pass values to the monitoring job to control the check time interval and/or the options for how many times to check on the...

Not exactly.

The first step in the main job is to start another job that will check on the first job, like this:

EXEC msdb..sp_start_job 'Automated Claim Closing Monitor'

The main job then...

Have the job you want to monitor immediately start a second job that will notify you if the run time is exceeded.  You could even have the main job pass...

Yes, I love the compactness and "slickness" of the code, but for large number of rows, performance-wise it can be a relative disaster.

Of course, in general, sorting is big overhead...

Idk why don't you give it a try and let us know

I never use IIF, so wouldn't waste my...

IIF is what leads to wordiness and complexity.  Here's a simple CASE, what wouldn't this take embedded IIFs?  [I admit this might be easier since I think(?), since I write...

It has no dependencies because it sorts the values again (as I understood the q).  If you have a lot of data that has already been sorted, that...

IIF is a corruption of SQL syntax to make other developers feel more comfortable.

A terrible idea, in my opinion.  Oracle's done the same thing to PL/SQL (Oracle equivalent of T-SQL),...

Gotta admit, I'm not a fan of PIVOT nor UNPIVOT.  I just don't care for the syntax / approach.  It seems counter-intuitive to me, naturally YMMV.

It has no dependencies because it sorts the values again (as I understood the q).  If you have a lot of data that has already been sorted, that may not...

Here's code that relies on the sequential ordering of the ID column of the underlying data set.  You could generate ID using a SEQUENCE if nothing else to insure it...

I'm not aware of anything that does that, and certainly not well.

For a SQL instance managed by Azure, there is some index tuning automatically done, but it's pretty limited.

You can...