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  • RE: Remove decimal from varchar field

    J Livingston SQL (11/3/2016)


    ScottPletcher (11/3/2016)


    SELECT

    SD.NUMBERS

    ,RIGHT('0000000' + REPLACE(NUMBERS, '.', ''), 7)

    FROM SAMPLE_DATA SD;

    which I believe is what...

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  • RE: Query to find all procedures that uses functions in the where clause(left operand)

    You could try limiting the pattern matching to only the text between "[whitespace-char]WHERE[whitespace-char]" and the next occurrence of "GROUP BY" or "SELECT". Of course that's also not perfect, but...

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  • RE: Remove decimal from varchar field

    SELECT

    SD.NUMBERS

    ,RIGHT('0000000' + REPLACE(NUMBERS, '.', ''), 7)

    FROM SAMPLE_DATA SD;

    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: update question

    I avoid the ISNULL "tricks" when I can in favor of straightforward code:

    UPDATE table_name

    SET Foo = CASE WHEN Foo > '' THEN ', ' ELSE '' END + 'newvalue'

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  • RE: Tunning the Query

    Sorry, don't have a lot of time, but here's my best guess at what could help:

    SELECT i.Item_ID AS Kit_SID

    , i.Item_ID AS Kit_ID

    , i.Item_NO AS Kit_NO

    ...

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  • RE: Risks of Updating to another edition

    You would at least have to remove anything that used a feature available in Enterprise Edition that's not also available in Standard Edition. No compressed tables, etc..

    But once...

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  • RE: Record Selection

    Hard to determine exactly what you want, but my best guess is something like below; adjust the case conditions to be specifically what you need them to be:

    select *

    from (

    ...

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  • RE: Log Table - Determining Old Value vs New Value

    mitzyturbo (11/1/2016)


    As I have 2 log tables to pull data from, how would this work?

    do you mean by just having a clustered index by the modified date on both log...

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  • RE: Log Table - Determining Old Value vs New Value

    Properly clustering should still allow a merge join, which should be much faster than anything you're having to do now.

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  • RE: Log Table - Determining Old Value vs New Value

    Cluster the log table on the relevant arrival datetime that you are comparing by (rather than, presumably, a meaningless identity value). Then query directly from the table, joining to...

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  • RE: why my query returns scientific notation for a varchar field?

    drew.allen (10/31/2016)


    ScottPletcher (10/31/2016)


    Latin actually is the base for many romance languages.

    Latin is the base for ALL Romance languages. I have an MA in Linguistics, so I have some idea what...

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  • RE: why my query returns scientific notation for a varchar field?

    CELKO (10/28/2016)

    This mistake is most commonly made by old COBOL programmers, because COBOL represents everything in character strings.

    No, actually COBOL had numeric values as well. For example, packed decimal...

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  • RE: why my query returns scientific notation for a varchar field?

    CELKO (10/31/2016)


    I doubt the vast majority of developers today have even heard of COBOL, and they certainly have never programmed in it.

    Yep, and nobody takes Latin either. Yet everywhere you...

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  • RE: Strange result using SUM with ISNULL(NULLIF...

    david.jack (10/31/2016)


    ScottPletcher (10/28/2016)


    david.jack (10/28/2016)


    ScottPletcher (10/27/2016)


    Seems more confusing than the natural CASE statement to me:

    SUM(CASE WHEN VAL1 <> 0 THEN VAL1 ELSE VAL2 END)

    VAL1 can return NULL unfortunately so using a...

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  • RE: why my query returns scientific notation for a varchar field?

    I doubt the vast majority of developers today have even heard of COBOL, and they certainly have never programmed in it.

    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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