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Thanks for all of your input, folks.
@ScottPletcher , I'm able to somewhat understand your solution,...
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".
July 12, 2018 at 12:53 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".
July 12, 2018 at 12:35 pm
Although not considered "standard", I prefer this approach because (1) the FETCH only has to be written once (can't count the number of times someone changes only one FETCH when...
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".
July 12, 2018 at 11:00 am
Rather than repeatedly having to identity the post code, add an AFTER INSERT, UPDATE trigger that finds the post code and then store its byte location and length 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".
July 12, 2018 at 10:55 am
The way I read it, you could have letters on both the front and the back of the string. This CASE code handles that situation as well:
[code...
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".
July 12, 2018 at 10:25 am
A tightly-written standard scalar function is another option. I'll give you mine. But you'll have to add the UK post code part to it, since this code was not written...
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".
July 12, 2018 at 10:11 am
Did you verify that all the constraints are "trusted"? If not trusted, perhaps that could cause an issue.
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".
July 11, 2018 at 11:13 am
A cross tab will do it nicely.
SELECT
MAX(CASE WHEN rowOrder = 1 THEN xImage END) AS xImage1,
MAX(CASE WHEN rowOrder...
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".
July 10, 2018 at 2:55 pm
If the app/person/whatever doing the UPDATE is not a sysadmin, (or perhaps a dbo, not sure on that one), maybe you can just DENY UPDATE on that 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".
July 10, 2018 at 11:43 am
Another option is to create a proc in master named sp_<whatever> (the name must start with sp_), mark it as a system proc, then you can execute from any db...
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".
July 10, 2018 at 11:33 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".
July 10, 2018 at 11:04 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".
July 10, 2018 at 10:53 am
SELECT *,
CASE WHEN start_of_value = 1 THEN ''
ELSE SUBSTRING(CI_NUM, start_of_value, 5) END AS [5charsyouwant]
FROM ( VALUES('asdfasf-ABCDE-asdfasdfsfasf'),('ss-TREWQ-asdfasfsf'),
('asdfa-12-ABCDE-kindatricky'),('nothingtoseehere'),
...
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".
July 10, 2018 at 10:49 am
So I guess it's doing a non-clustered index seek? When you go that route, you have to be careful of the "tipping point", where SQL falls back to scanning 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".
July 10, 2018 at 10:44 am
100% agree with Phil. Get everything in one read and save/cache it for your app however you need to. Db read round trips (from your app to the db 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".
July 10, 2018 at 8:14 am
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