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  • RE: Sort already comma separated list

    Alan.B - Friday, February 8, 2019 2:49 PM

    Jeff Moden - Friday, February 8, 2019 2:09 PM

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  • RE: Sort already comma separated list

    jcelko212 32090 - Friday, February 8, 2019 2:04 PM

    >> But to create a primary key with an int or bigint all 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".

  • RE: Updates and not requiring a parameter

    Effectively yes.  If you're updating a single row in a non-columnstore table, then the main row (from the clus index or from the heap) must be read in order 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".

  • RE: Updates and not requiring a parameter

    Nah, ISNULL() in a SET is fine.  It's only in WHERE and join-related clauses that it makes a difference.

    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: Remove duplicate substrings from string

    Eirikur Eiriksson - Tuesday, April 24, 2018 11:54 PM

    Alan.B - Tuesday, April 24, 2018 1:03 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".

  • RE: Sort already comma separated list

    jcelko212 32090 - Wednesday, February 6, 2019 9:11 AM

    ScottPletcher - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 11:38 AM

    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: sp_stop_job not stopping job, but "right click" and stop does

    If you're going to use a name, explicitly specify it as a job name:

    exec msdb.dbo.sp_stop_job @job_name = @jobname ;

    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: Sort already comma separated list

    jcelko212 32090 - Tuesday, February 5, 2019 2:53 PM

    Jeff Moden - Monday, February 4, 2019 2:28 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".

  • RE: Database Growth Percentage and Size

    The column "Totalspace" doesn't exist any more: the columns in the inner query are "minval" and "maxval".

    So, something like:

    select
      databasename, minval, maxval,
      ...

    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: Sort already comma separated list

    jcelko212 32090 - Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:57 PM

    >> It's stored as numeric because it's more efficient, both in terms of size...

    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: Case in a where clause?

    CASE must evaluate to a single value.  For this, you need to use "standard" WHERE clause and/ors:

    WHERE([Admission Date] IS NOT NULL)
    and
    (@Parameter = 'A' and [Close...

    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: findeing matching names from one database to another

    If I understand correctly, this is what you want:


    SELECT
        BCC.FirstName + ' ' + BCC.Lastname AS Matching_Name
    FROM (
        SELECT...

    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: Sort already comma separated list

    jcelko212 32090 - Monday, February 4, 2019 11:16 AM

    Jeff Moden - Sunday, February 3, 2019 8:08 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".

  • RE: Split column values using delimiter and insert them into referenced table

    HappyGeek - Sunday, February 3, 2019 2:04 AM

    Since this is SQL 2016 you could achieve the same using the string_split function. 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".

  • RE: CASE with LEN Evaluation

    A shorter alternative:


    SELECT [Col1],
        CASE
            WHEN [Col1] = '0' OR [Col1] = '200' THEN '99991231'
       ...

    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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