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  • Reply To: Calculate Sales with different start Dates

    SELECT ca1.*
    FROM dbo.cust_sales_temp cst
    CROSS APPLY (
    SELECT cst.customer_id, cst.program_date,
    MAX(CASE WHEN row_num = 1 THEN sales...

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  • Reply To: How to get Active counts between dates. Please

    Recursion is notoriously slow for iteration.  Maybe use a "standard" tally table instead:

    ;WITH
    cte_tally10 AS (
    SELECT * FROM (VALUES(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0)) AS numbers(number)
    ),
    cte_tally100 AS (
    ...

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  • Reply To: Create a dynamic script to create view for all tables having MAX columns

    CREATE VIEW must be in a batch by itself, i.e., without GOs, you could create only one view per script.

    Since GOs are likely not valid, that may be what 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: Query Performance Tuning

    In this case it doesn't.  But what is the harm in CASTing?

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  • Reply To: Comparison of varchar data from two different tables

    The first three rows in the table DO all match the first "<" condition: 00:05:xx and 00:10:xx are less than 00:15:xx.  Only the second condition limits the result to a...

    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: Comparison of varchar data from two different tables

    For example, when the lengths are consistent, it seems to produce the desired result:

    DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #xr;
    CREATE TABLE #xr ( length_min varchar(8) NOT NULL, length_max varchar(8)...

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  • Reply To: Comparison of varchar data from two different tables

    It seems like this is a character comparison.  If so, "00:15:18" would not compare correct "0:...", since you have two leading zeros vs one leading zero.  If you're going 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: Query Performance Tuning

    Don't change the CASTing for the bits in the WHERE clause, leave as is.  Otherwise I believe SQL will default to a different data type which would force a column...

    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: Create a dynamic script to create view for all tables having MAX columns

    I generated SQL separately for each view, even though that requires a cursor.  In this specific case, I think you may want to be able to control things table by...

    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: Function Returning NULL on Specific Server Instance, 0 on Other Servers

    Somehow you left out the "SET @MyBit = 0" on one function?

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  • Reply To: Create a dynamic script to create view for all tables having MAX columns

    Except stay completely away from INFORMATION_SCHEMA views, which are more overhead anyway.  Use sys.tables, sys.columns, etc., instead.

    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: Create a dynamic script to create view for all tables having MAX columns

    And what would you want to name the view?

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  • Reply To: Conditionally Selecting Rows within Union

    Sample data and results are almost always clearer than just a textual explanation.  I hope this matches what you need:

    SELECT
    ISNULL(t2.CarColor, t1.CarColor) AS CarColor,
    ...

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  • Reply To: Conditionally Selecting Rows within Union

    IF I understand the q correctly, then:

    SELECT
    ISNULL(t2.CarColor, t1.CarColor) AS CarColor,
    t1.CarName,
    t1.CarStatus
    FROM Db1.CarTbl1 t1
    LEFT OUTER JOIN Db2.CarTbl27...

    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: Replace and like - oh great

    SQL wouldn't necessarily have to scan the entire table, if the relevant columns happened to be in a nonclus index -- not likely here, but theoretically possible.

    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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