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  • RE: Help with an upsert

    You're welcome, let me know how it goes.

    Btw, it's inconsistent to use data type "datetime2" and GETDATE(), which returns only a "datetime" value.  That's why I used SYSDATETIME()...

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  • RE: Help with an upsert


    UPDATE pr
    SET fieldvalue = pe.requestind,
        datelstmod = SYSDATETIME()
    FROM process pr
    INNER JOIN person pe ON pe.personid = pr.personid AND pr.activityid = 991
    WHERE...

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  • RE: Max() statement confusing

    This a common technique ("trick") to get a single line of values from multiple lines of input.  It's almost always at least a pair of conditions, e.g.:
    MAX(CASE WHEN rline...

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  • RE: Most efficient way of not selecting data

    sgmunson - Thursday, May 3, 2018 12:00 PM

    george_at_sql - Thursday, May 3, 2018 10:46 AM

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  • RE: Number of Days between two Day Names

    Jeff Moden - Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:58 AM

    patrickmcginnis59 10839 - Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:20 AM

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  • RE: Number of Days between two Day Names

    To the OP:

    I'd suggest not over-complicating what you have unless/until it's actually needed.  Why spends hours doing something that may never be applicable or useful?  If the conditions change,...

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  • RE: Updating Rows

    This should be enough to UPDATE the udf table:


    UPDATE udf
    SET Value = CASE udf.fieldno WHEN 1 THEN udf1 WHEN 2 THEN udf2 WHEN 3...

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  • RE: Most efficient way of not selecting data

    As noted, use NOT EXISTS.  Also, uniquely cluster the NoEmail table on the EmailAddress.


    ...
    CREATE TABLE #tblNoEmail
    (
    EmailAddress varchar(100) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
    )
    ...
    SELECT...

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  • RE: UDF showing weird behavior when checking if variable holds null value.

    2) The question should be. When needing the result from one query multiple times in a procedure/UDF/trigger, is it best to store it in a variable or run that...

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  • RE: UDF showing weird behavior when checking if variable holds null value.

    Local variables tend to slow down scalar functions, so avoid them if possible.  In this case, they also make the logic much more complicated than it needs to be. ...

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  • RE: Number of Days between two Day Names

    Don't have a lot of time, but this should be real close at least:

    SELECT *,
      CASE WHEN EndDayNumber >= StartDayNumber THEN EndDayNumber - StartDayNumber
       ELSE...

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  • RE: Backups of read-only databases

    and will make it harder in the recovering process.

    I don't understand why you'd say that.  The main reason I could see for continuing to do backups of...

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  • RE: Group by month and year

    Jeff Moden - Monday, April 30, 2018 11:43 AM

    jcelko212 32090 - Monday, April 30, 2018 10:46 AM

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  • RE: Group by month and year

    jcelko212 32090 - Monday, April 30, 2018 10:46 AM

    You don't seem to understand that dates are not kept in strings in SQL....

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  • RE: Change Data format

    As noted, the datetime is stored in a numeric format.

    It's likely that whatever interface is displaying the date to you is putting it in this format:
    Apr 19...

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