SELECT TOP (1) reg
FROM ( VALUES(@var1), (@var2) ) AS datetimes(reg)
ORDER BY reg DESC

This approach will be really useful if you ever have to add a 3rd (4th,...

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #view_names;
CREATE TABLE #view_names ( 
    view_name nvarchar(100) PRIMARY KEY
    );
INSERT INTO #view_names
VALUES('>--->YOUR_VIEW_NAME_TO_SEARCH_FOR_GOES_HERE<---<')
/*, ('another_view_name_could_go_here') ... */

DROP TABLE IF...

Exact code works for me in SQL 2022.

Maybe use bigint rather than int!?:

declare @status as bigint=83457678; 
;with nums(num, [2power_Num], bitcheck)
as
(
SELECT Num, POWER(2, CAST(Num AS bigint)), (@status &...

It's also possible that you were missing critical index(es) that were forcing full scans of the table.  Every issue is not necessarily always exactly the same as one that happened...

Is there any circumstances where you would allow code with a  'SELECT * ' to go into production?

I believe this should NEVER happen.  There is a discussion that...

SELECT
    LEFT(Bname, CHARINDEX(' ', BName) - 1) AS BName,
    MAX(CASE WHEN BName LIKE '% Start%' THEN StartDate ELSE '' END) AS...

I don't know of a super-slick way to do this off the top of my head:

SELECT DISTINCT run_date, run_time, 
    CAST(CAST(run_date AS varchar(8)) +...

OOPS, SORRY, I did it back'ards.

SELECT [Profile ID]

FROM dbo.table_name

GROUP BY [Profile ID]

HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT [Customer ID]) =

(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT [Customer ID]) FROM dbo.table_name)

SELECT [Customer ID]

FROM dbo.table_name

GROUP BY [Customer ID]

HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT [Profile ID]) = (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT [Profile ID]) FROM dbo.table_name)

You should definitely switch the key order on the lookup table, i.e., not:

PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( iid, cart_id )

but instead do this:

PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( cart_id, iid )

You could also likely work around changing the db code using views, if changing the code is just too difficult to do quickly by hand.  Typically that doesn't cause performance...

Yes.

EXEC sys.sp_rename 'dbo.table_name.column_name', 'new_column_name', 'COLUMN'

for each table column that you want to rename.

OOPS, quite right, I should have used ">=" and "<" rather than "BETWEEN".

I have NOT uber-tuned this, just trying to get something that works (so many people here obsess over every microsecond).  If you have a lot of rows, more tuning might...

SELECT G.Gage_ID 'ID', G.Model_No 'Model', L.LocationName 'Room', D.GageDescriptionName 'Desc',C.Calibration_DateTime 'Cal', G.Gage_SN 'S/N', S.StatusName 'Status', C.NextDue 'Due'

FROM GAGETRAK.Gages G

JOIN GAGETRAK.Locations L ON G.StorageLocation_RID_FK=L.Location_RID

JOIN GAGETRAK.GageDescriptions D ON G.GageDescription_RID_FK=D.GageDescription_RID

JOIN GAGETRAK.Status S ON G.Status_RID_FK=S.Status_RID...