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  • Reply To: Retrieving First Word, First + Second Word, First + Second + Third Word, First

    Or maybe just this:

    SELECT CompanyName, 
    LEFT(CompanyName, EndOfWord1) AS [First Word],
    LEFT(CompanyName, EndOfWord2) AS [First + Second Word],
    ...

    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: Selecting from a view, base table has a DENY on a column

    You need to look at the "Estimated" plan for the one that doesn't work, just to be sure.  See if anywhere SQL is referencing or "output"ing the restricted 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: Selecting from a view, base table has a DENY on a column

    What is the specific error message (and error number and status) you get? (Using dummy column name(s) as needed, of course).

    What is the query plan?  Does it give any help...

    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: Compare all tables row counts for 2 server instances?

    You don't need to export to Excel to do the comparison, you can do it directly in SQL Server.

    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: Not enough disk space error

    Look at the files on the drive and see if there is a large, obsolete file(s) (perhaps old backups?).

    Depending on the version of SQL Server, you might also be able...

    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: STUFF Command Not Working

    Try this.  It may not work because of the GROUPing.  You might have to do the GROUPing after concatenating the subquery results.

    SELECT
    DISTINCT
    G.[Period],
    G.[Sector],
    G.RID,
    STUFF
    ((
    SELECT
    DISTINCT
    ...

    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: Not enough disk space error

    Is your tempdb database on the C: drive?  If so, that could theoretically cause the problem.

    By the way, 9GB is a very tiny amount of free space on a drive. ...

    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: Small Transactional Table with Frequent Updates

    I don't think you can do much for that table itself.

    You need to look at the code that is UPDATEing that table and make sure that code is efficient.  Also,...

    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: Commit transaction inside loops

    Would you be able to use TRUNCATE TABLE instead to remove all the rows?  That will be vastly faster.

    If the table has an identity column, and you want to maintain...

    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: Can you reference 'Inserted' or 'Deleted' Trigger Table in SQL Mail Query

    The inserted and deleted "tables" only exist within the direct code of a trigger.  You can't reference them from an external query.  You'd need to write the inserted and deleted...

    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: Newby - Stuck with a trigger.

    This is somewhat confusing, but something like this would likely do what you want to do:

    SET ANSI_NULLS ON;
    SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON;
    GO
    CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[tr_ORDERID]
    ON [dbo].[MYCUSTOMERS]
    AFTER UPDATE
    AS
    SET NOCOUNT ON;
    BEGIN
    IF UPDATE(ORDERID)
    BEGIN
    ...

    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: sql command written in cmd that is .bat file is synchronous or asynchronous

    synchronous

    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: Scheduling SQL Agent Jobs on Alternating Weeks

    Code only needs to be schedule on the first and last Thursday of the month, since those are the only 2 days it might need to do something.

    As to simplification,...

    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: Scheduling SQL Agent Jobs on Alternating Weeks

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ildjarn.is.dead wrote:

    The worst schema I had to implement: A customer wanted us to reboot the server for patches on the first friday of the month around 1am.

    How do 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: How to find second position after decimal

    (Dup post, removed)

     

    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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