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  • Reply To: building one group from other groups aggregated

    You need more clear examples.

    For example, if line 1 was the starting line, which of these lines would be included:

    0 200 0 0 501 --line 5

    200 0 0 0 0...

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  • Reply To: INSERT INTO table if 4 or less occurrences of values exist in table

    That's a very interesting idea. It sounds very complex to implement, but quite nice once you get it working.

    The trigger is actually rather easy to write and can be...

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  • Reply To: adding default column with type BIT and default value as Y

    Bit data type is numeric in SQL: naturally 1 means Yes, 0 means No.

    So:

    CREATE TABLE dbo.table_name ( bit_column bit DEFAULT 1 );

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  • Reply To: Simple Index Question

    But you also made the blanket statement that:

    Indexes are for reducing the rows read, they have no value at all when you don’t have a where clause filtering the rows.

    And...

    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: Simple Index Question

    Not necessarily true. Indexes can also allow SQL to avoid a sort (and sorts are expensive operations).

    For example:

    Add a clustered index on id to the table.

    Then this query should...

    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: INSERT INTO table if 4 or less occurrences of values exist in table

    You'd have to use an INSERT trigger. It could be an INSTEAD OF INSERT or an AFTER INSERT trigger.

    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: Look at ROWCOUNT and ERROR just after update?

    Yep. Save the system variables (@@) into local variables (@) after the relevant statement(s), then test the local variables instead of the system vars. Note that you need...

    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: New to SQL, easy question

    I didn't, and wouldn't, look at the links. But thanks for the heads-up on this poster.

    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: The object name contains more than the maximum number of 2

    You can have the db name in an ALTER, just not the server name (note the message says two prefixes, i.e., a total of 3 levels of object name). ...

    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: New to SQL, easy question

    You must add an ORDER BY clause to the query to get the rows to be in a specific order. But, the ORDER BY must also be in 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: Pivot and Unpivot

    For clarification, a SQL column does not have to be all the same type: SQL has a type of sql_variant that is designed to handle different data types in 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: Using the OUTPUT CLAUSE in a INSERT statement.

    You can only put columns in the OUTPUT clause from the INSERTED and DELETED table(s), if/when each is present.

    Sadly, you can't use any column from any input in the query,...

    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".

  • RE: Week Number with custom dates


    ;WITH
    cteCalcBaseDates AS (
      SELECT DATEADD(MONTH, 7 - CASE WHEN MONTH(GETDATE()) < 8 THEN 12 ELSE 0 END,
      DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, 0, GETDATE()), 0)) AS Aug01,

    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".

  • RE: Using SUM OVER without an Order by

    The GROUP BY Entry Num should be enough:


    SELECT H.Customs_Entry_Num,
      MAX(h.Total_MPF) AS Total_MPF,
      SUM(L.MPF) AS Line_Sum
    FROM ADHOC.ATS_ESH H
    INNER JOIN ADHOC.ATS_ESL...

    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".

  • RE: Insert to Clustered Index

    Jim-S - Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:13 AM

    Jeff Moden - Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:28 PM

    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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