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  • RE: How to delete tables in a database whose table names match a criterea

    Lynn Pettis (7/23/2015)


    WayneS (7/23/2015)


    ScottPletcher (7/23/2015)


    Btw, the WHERE clause can be improved to allow an index seek, if applicable:

    WHERE LEFT(name, 5) = 'APTMP'

    should be:

    WHERE name LIKE 'APTMP%'

    Good luck with adding that...

    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: How to delete tables in a database whose table names match a criterea

    Btw, the WHERE clause can be improved to allow an index seek, if applicable:

    WHERE LEFT(name, 5) = 'APTMP'

    should be:

    WHERE name LIKE 'APTMP%'

    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: Conver Number to string ( exp. 9 - 0009 or 9 - 09)

    gshouse (7/22/2015)

    If I wanted to get real nit-picky I'd even ask why int is lower case for one parameter-type and INT is upper case for the other. But that...

    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: IT Project Management - Fact Finding Questions

    Often a good start is to look at current input and display screens, as well as reports, but just to identity needed data elements, not to copy the format/layout.

    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: Conver Number to string ( exp. 9 - 0009 or 9 - 09)

    Agree with using REPLICATE instead, and get rid of any extraneous local variables, so fully coded would look like this:

    CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[NumberToString] (

    @value int,

    ...

    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: IT Project Management - Fact Finding Questions

    The most important thing is to treat it first as a data project. The database part comes later!

    That is, start with logical data modeling. And stick with that...

    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: Table(s) design for messaging functionality

    Do not cluster this table by identity. Cluster it instead on EmailDate, for example.

    I'd strongly consider using nvarchar(max) rather than nvarchar(3000) to allow longer messages if needed.

    Status should not...

    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: Distinct performance

    Hmm, no reason to insert a large number of rows and then do a distinct. Do either of the following, depending on if you need a count for each...

    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: Query Performance

    Without further info, the truly best clustering index is a complete guess, but based on what is known so far, I'd say try:

    Cluster the table on ( StartDate, EndDate )

    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: Optimising join with a CASE statement

    Is the key column really that long?

    Why not just use a separate row for each interval, 5, 15 and 60 minutes?:

    settlement_key, interval, value

    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: Cash Payments By Denomination

    I'd prefer a single UPDATE statement:

    UPDATE raa

    SET tt_TotalPay = aan.TotalPay,

    tt_CountOf100s = aan.TotalPay / 100,

    tt_CountOf50s = aan.TotalPay % 100 / 50,

    ...

    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: Numeric/Negative Check

    SELECT Capacity

    FROM (

    SELECT '1234' AS Capacity UNION ALL

    SELECT '-987' UNION ALL

    SELECT NULL UNION ALL

    SELECT...

    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: Can anyone help get this to run?

    Put double quotes around the column in the SELECT list:

    SELECT ..., '"' + column_with_leading_zeros + '"' AS column_name, ...

    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: Nested query retrieving min and max values

    You're welcome!

    Btw, note that for "SELECT TOP (1) *", the * is not a problem, because SQL can determine that it needs to get only the columns that are actually...

    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: Nested query retrieving min and max values

    You need to use CROSS APPLYs (CA) rather than an INNER JOIN (IJ). CA only, without the IJ, assumes you need to see only the low and high hematocrit...

    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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