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  • Reply To: Create Key with distinct values

    You need a separate table to specify a unique entry for ( [Entity Name], [Entity EIN] ).

    (Actually, hopefully EIN by itself would be unique.  If it is, use just that. ...

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  • Reply To: Learning SQL!!

    Which specific brand of SQL?  MySQL?  SQL Server?  Oracle (not likely in a 2-person shop, too expensive)?

    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: Stored Procedure for three different date ranges

    You can't pass expressions as parameter values.  You need to resolve the expression yourself and pass only a single (scalar) value.  For example:

    DECLARE @start_date date

    DECLARE @end_date date

    SET @start_date = DATEADD(MONTH,...

    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: Update trigger and concurrency issue

    I don't know that  you'll be able to fix it, particularly without the details of how the "standard audit dates" are maintained.

    It seems like this is an integrity check to...

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  • Reply To: Best Practices for Stored Procedure Design

    Right, good point.  I meant to do that.  You just do an INNER JOIN to the table of allowed values, with a WHERE clause(s) if needed .

    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: View triggers

    Quite right.  If you wanted to use a trigger, you'd have to put a trigger(s) on the table(s) used within the view, not on the view itself.

    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: Best Practices for Stored Procedure Design

    Sure.  Based on the originally posted query:

    SELECT @currentValue, SomeField
    FROM SomeTable
    WHERE @currentValue = 'Test1'
    UNION ALL
    --
    SELECT @currentValue, SomeField
    FROM AnotherTable
    WHERE @currentValue = 'Test2'
    UNION ALL
    --
    SELECT @currentValue, SomeField
    FROM AThirdTable
    WHERE @currentValue = 'Test3'
    UNION...

    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: Best Practices for Stored Procedure Design

    Yes, I should have said "and without a loop".

    For me, I'd use UNION ALL rather than a loop for something like this. SQL will have to parse all the SQL...

    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: Best Practices for Stored Procedure Design

    How would you pull data from at least 4 different tables efficiently without using a UNION ALL?

    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: Best Practices for Stored Procedure Design

    I doubt you need a temp table. You can just UNION ALL all the different query results. If a given query returns no rows, that's OK, it will...

    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: How to compare three tables using a single column (inner Join is not working)

    Do you want to list inactive data in the report?

    If not, you can just join to the other tables including "AccountStatus IN (1)" in the JOIN ON clause, something like...

    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: Split Row Into Multiple Based on Column Values

    Personally I'd use CROSS APPLY:

    SELECT sl.Name, sl.Country, types.type

    FROM Sales_Ledger sl

    CROSS APPLY ( VALUES([Type 1]), ([Type 2]), ([Type 3]), ([Type 4]) ) AS types(type)

    WHERE types.type > ''

    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: SELECT COUNT(*) Taking a Very Long Time

    Hopefully SQL's split algorithm isn't that poor for bit columns.

    But, if it turns out to be, create an index on:

    ( MyTable_ID, is_MyTable_Text_NULL ).

    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: SELECT COUNT(*) Taking a Very Long Time

    Add a bit column to indicate null status of [MyTable_Text], then index on that column.

    ALTER TABLE [dbo].[MyTable] ADD is_MyTable_Text_NULL AS CAST(CASE WHEN MyTable_Text IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END...

    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: Select column names and top 1 records along.

    You don't want index_columns and indexes in the query as it exists, because it will just generate duplicate rows for no reason.

    SELECT TOP (1)

    st.name [Table Name],

    c.name [Column Name],

    t.name [Data Type]

    FROM...

    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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