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  • RE: How to avoid Union/Union All?

    A FULL OUTER JOIN should handle this rather easily. From what you stated, a FOJ should be available to you.

    SELECT ca1.Cust_id, ca1.Rec_id, ca1.Rec_type, ca1.Update_TS

    FROM quote_table q

    FULL OUTER JOIN sell_table...

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  • RE: Getting back to SQL Server

    Agreed, Developer's Edition is a wonderful, and very cheap considering, product for what you're talking about.

    Also, get a good book on SQL Server 2008 (or later) Administration. Kalen Delaney's...

    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: Date Table

    Jeff Moden (12/26/2014)


    Thanks, Scott. I was afraid it would be something like that. I can see those reasons for companies back when spreadsheets where 11x17 accounting papers that...

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  • RE: T-SQL : Change to Capture

    I don't understand the point of:

    "PARTITION BY (SELECT NULL)"

    in the LAG. Why not just leave out "PARTITION BY"?

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  • RE: Writing views with if else

    SELECT a.id,

    CASE WHEN match_found.address_id IS NULL THEN '' ELSE address1 END AS address1,

    CASE WHEN match_found.address_id IS NULL THEN '' ELSE address2 END...

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  • RE: Space Problems

    To be sure, make SQL update the page (and row) usage counts and see if there are any large discrepancies:

    DBCC UPDATEUSAGE ( '<your_db_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: Date Table

    Jeff Moden (12/25/2014)


    CELKO (12/25/2014)


    Why do some companies use weird Fiscal Years, such as starting in April? What is the purpose there?

    The last time I looked the GAAP had...

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  • RE: 15 Quick Short Interview Questions Useful When Hiring SQL Developers

    Jeff Moden (12/25/2014)


    ScottPletcher (12/25/2014)


    Geoff A (3/3/2013)


    Jeff Moden (2/28/2013)


    Shifting gears a bit, I’m glad that these are essay-style questions so that I could write in what I believe is a more...

    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: 15 Quick Short Interview Questions Useful When Hiring SQL Developers

    Geoff A (3/3/2013)


    Jeff Moden (2/28/2013)


    Shifting gears a bit, I’m glad that these are essay-style questions so that I could write in what I believe is a more correct answer in...

    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: 15 Quick Short Interview Questions Useful When Hiring SQL Developers

    Excellent! Best overall set of SQL developer interview qs I've ever seen.

    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: Date Table

    I think this is a much simpler method:

    DECLARE @first_fiscal_year smallint

    DECLARE @number_of_years tinyint

    SET @first_fiscal_year = 2014

    SET @number_of_years = 10

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    DECLARE @fiscal_years TABLE (

    year smallint PRIMARY KEY,

    ...

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  • RE: Unused Procedure lists - Most easiest way

    Keep in mind that procs are listed only as long as they are in the cache. On a memory-constrained or busy server, stats could be lost/removed. Also, whenever...

    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: Date column with 1900-01-01 value

    gissah (12/23/2014)


    Thanks that is what I ended up doing with a subquery.

    select pt.projinvoiceprojid,MIN(CAST(pt.PROJECTEDSTARTDATE AS DATE)) AS 'SOPOrderDate_ProjectStartDate'

    from projtable pt

    where pt.PROJECTEDSTARTDATE !='1900-01-01'

    group by pt.projinvoiceprojid

    order by pt.projinvoiceprojid

    Be careful! Do...

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  • RE: Killing all sessions and restoring the database

    Markus (12/23/2014)


    They way I do my refresh db jobs is the first step of the job is the kill step, second step is restore. They happen back to back...

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  • RE: Challenge - Loading 120M records within 21 hours

    Michael Valentine Jones (12/20/2014)


    Could you try the statement below on a development or test server using a full sized table?

    The storage size for numeric precision of 12 or 18 is...

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