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  • RE: help left join

    SELECT A.*

    FROM Table1 A

    LEFT OUTER JOIN (

    SELECT B.USERID

    FROM Table1 B

    INNER JOIN Table2 C ON B.USERID=C.UserID

    )...

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  • RE: default database setting question

    I don't see any downside, only upside. SQL relies on those settings now anyway, and they will soon be required.

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  • RE: Read Committed Snapshot.

    Interesting. If the db is "READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON", that will typically reduce locking/blocking considerably. When tasks are in READ_COMMITTED isolation level -- which is the default -- the only...

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  • RE: Assitance in Union and Groups

    shezi (3/16/2015)


    ...

    Where (e.status='A' or pr.Hours > 0) and e.pay_type=1

    ...

    I came across another snag. 🙁 There is also another column "Validated hour" which is just a sum of hours...

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  • RE: Add 15 minutes to a time in char format

    SELECT

    time_char,

    STUFF(CONVERT(varchar(5), DATEADD(MINUTE, 15, STUFF(time_char, 3, 0, ':')), 8), 3, 1, '')

    FROM (

    SELECT '0545' AS time_char UNION ALL

    ...

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  • RE: Out of control table

    CELKO (3/12/2015)

    Since BIGINT is larger than the number of atoms in the universe, we do not use it very often.

    No, not even close. There are at least 10^78...

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  • RE: SQL choosing to use the worst possible index

    ricardo_chicas (3/16/2015)


    If I let the query run forever since it is scanning the whole table

    Hmm, isn't it scanning the nonclustered index rather than the whole table (clustered index)?

    Yeah just the...

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  • RE: Assitance in Union and Groups

    shezi (3/16/2015)


    ScottPletcher (3/16/2015)


    ...

    ORDER BY CASE WHEN pr.hours > 0 THEN 1 ELSE 2 END, Name

    Excellent.

    One final Question. The Employee table also has status. Active or Terminated. I want...

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  • RE: Assitance in Union and Groups

    Forgot Quote, see next post.

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  • RE: Assitance in Union and Groups

    ORDER BY CASE WHEN pr.hours > 0 THEN 1 ELSE 2 END, Name

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  • RE: Question: Teasing apart a bit-field and storing the results in table rows

    Yep; much safer to use "> 0" rather than checking for the specific bit value 🙂

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  • RE: What was the previous value

    Quirky update requires a clustered index that conforms to the computation being done.

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  • RE: SQL choosing to use the worst possible index

    I have the same concerns. SQL should be better at using the clustered index when it applies ... we went to the trouble to get the best clustered index...

    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: Assitance in Union and Groups

    I wasn't sure which table "valid_payroll" is in, so I guessed "Employee". If it's not, adjust the code accordingly. Btw, always use a table alias on every 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".

  • RE: Data types and row size question

    Dan121 (3/16/2015)


    Scott, my concern is a size of a row. As Grant said UNIQUEIDENTIFIER is 16 bytes. if I have 503 columns with datatype 'UNIQUEIDENTIFIER' and rows are empty, will...

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