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  • RE: Create view for each table in the databases

    Another option to generate code to be run on the other server:

    DECLARE @view_template varchar(8000)

    SET @view_template = '

    CREATE VIEW [$schema$].[$table$]

    AS

    SELECT * FROM [SourceDatabase].[$schema$].[$table$] UNION ALL

    SELECT * FROM [ArchiveDatabase].[$schema$].[$table$]

    GO

    '

    SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(@view_template,

    ...

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  • RE: Select quert with REPLACE function

    Create a replacement values table, and use it to do the data replacement.

    CREATE TABLE dbo.data_replacements (

    column_name varchar(30) NOT NULL,

    current_value varchar(100) NULL,

    ...

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  • RE: multiple child records per row, dynamically?

    You'd have to generate dynamic SQL to do that. First, get the highest count as it exists ni your current data. Then modify the above overall structure to...

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  • RE: Trying to Make My Code More Efficient

    How about?:

    SELECT p.Warehouse,

    CASE WHEN SUM(Quantity) >= 10

    THEN CAST(SUM(Quantity) AS varchar(30))

    ...

    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: Database Design Follies: NULL vs. NOT NULL

    JediSQL (10/31/2014)

    In most conditional statements, like WHERE clauses and IF statements, the conditional expression will return TRUE if and only if SQL Server considers the assertion provably true. 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".

  • RE: multiple child records per row, dynamically?

    Here's one quick-and-dirty way to do this for up to 5 instances:

    Edit: changed the column names to better match the table defs.

    with instanceInfo as

    (

    select

    ins.srvID

    ,ins.instNetName as...

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  • RE: Selecting days in month between two dates

    CORRECTION: Previous code has bug because the tally table does not include a 0.

    DECLARE @Sample TABLE(

    FileNumb int,

    startdate date,

    ...

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  • RE: Joining on 3 tables isse

    Select FROM the job table and user LEFT OUTER JOINs on the other two tables.

    [This sounds possibly like class work or home work, so I'm just giving a general guideline...

    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: Selecting days in month between two dates

    Edit: Was able to post an inline CTE this time; guess they fixed the bug at work that was blocking posting any CTEs ... Hallelujah!

    DECLARE @Sample TABLE(

    ...

    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: Selecting days in month between two dates

    I don't like table overhead when it can be avoided by simple mathematical calcs. Calendar tables have their uses, but to me they can sometimes become the proverbial hammer...

    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: Log File Growth

    You should only rebuild or reorganize an index when it is fragmented enough to be significant. For some tables, this might be every day. For others, only every...

    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: Testing Simple Calculations and UDFs with tSQLt

    Presumably some number of UDFs would get updated over time, particularly as new techniques are learned. I believe, for example, that the splitter function has gone thru several iterations,...

    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: [SQL Server 2008] Problem with Between syntax

    Jason A. Long (5/15/2015)


    WOW... I could have sworn that the last time I tested, CASTing from a DATETIME to a DATE made it unsargable...

    Just tetested with this...

    DECLARE

    @BegDate DATE...

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  • RE: Testing Simple Calculations and UDFs with tSQLt

    Interesting points. (Although I'd prefer to put the test conditions / "known case" conditions into a table, for the usual reasons of flexibility and maintainability.)

    As an aside, the function...

    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: [SQL Server 2008] Problem with Between syntax

    Jeff Moden (5/15/2015)


    Jason A. Long (5/15/2015)


    ScottPletcher (5/15/2015)


    Never use BETWEEN on dates or datetimes;

    Out of curiosity, why do you say this?

    I could see it it you were talking about...

    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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