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  • RE: Adding File

    Most likely is that a database backup is in progress, and you can't alter the database files during a backup. Check running processes for a backup, dbcc check, or...

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  • RE: linked server - delete hangs

    EXEC ('DELETE FROM onedb.stg.tab1') AT [linkserv]

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  • RE: How to Round a date to the nearest second

    You'll also need to decide if you're willing to allow the rounding to change the day/date or not. That is, if the time is, say, "20140908 23:59:59.670", do you...

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  • RE: Updating data in one table dependent upon FK match on another table.

    The first, most obvious though is "don't do this". Why are you denormalizing one table's data into thousands of other tables? Why not just join to the original...

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  • RE: Convert string to Date

    terry999 (9/5/2014)


    Nice one..

    Why date_input + '0'

    I think it works without concatenating '0' at the end?

    That's in case you get an entry like:

    'Saturday'

    Without the " + '0'", the entire string gets...

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  • RE: Convert string to Date

    You could skip all non-numeric chars at the front of the string, viz:

    SELECT

    date_input,

    SUBSTRING(date_input, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', date_input + '0'), 30) AS adjusted_date_input

    FROM (

    ...

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  • RE: Create Periods Transaction Dates and make them columns

    select

    g_a.id as GLAcct,

    g_a.descr as GLDesc,

    sum(case when g_l.transaction_date >= '20140101' AND g_l.transaction_date < '20140201' THEN g_l.amount_n ELSE 0 END) AS Jan,

    --...

    sum(case when g_l.transaction_date >= '20140701' AND g_l.transaction_date < '20140801' THEN g_l.amount_n...

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  • RE: Using COALESCE and also trying to multiply and divide

    CELKO (9/4/2014)


    He put each element into its own schema. A curious design, I admit, but not one that breaks any rules I know of.

    Attribute splitting. You...

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  • RE: Using COALESCE and also trying to multiply and divide

    CELKO (9/3/2014)


    the truncated YYYY-MM-DD is allowed in ISO 8061. But DD is constrained to be in the range 01 to 31 so the CELKO YYYY-MM-00 is guaranteed non-conformant...

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  • RE: Using COALESCE and also trying to multiply and divide

    TomThomson (9/3/2014)


    CELKO (9/3/2014)


    Do you have you copy of the ANSI/ISO Standards? Read them. The only display format allowed is ISO-8601, 'yyyy-mm-dd' and not your punctuation free version. Sorry....

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  • RE: Using COALESCE and also trying to multiply and divide

    CELKO (9/3/2014)


    Vastly more important, "we" do not store editing chars within the data! Even if one insists on storing dates as (var)char, why on earth would there ever...

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  • RE: Trigger or Not Trigger

    LutzM (9/3/2014)


    ScottPletcher (9/3/2014)


    ...

    There are 3rd party solutions that do that, but they are rather expensive. At least one we investigated uses its own "black box" to hold the data...

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  • RE: memory settings from default to 4500 MB

    If you want to verify the current setting, run this statement:

    EXEC sp_configure 'max server memory'

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  • RE: Using COALESCE and also trying to multiply and divide

    CELKO (9/3/2014)


    You doing everything wrong. Where is the DDL? That is minimal Netiquette in SQL forums. Is this all INTEGER math? I hope not! But that is what your coalesce...

    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: Using COALESCE and also trying to multiply and divide

    SQL Server has a feature called computed columns that could be very useful here. Basically you can create a virtual column based on a computation, and it becomes effectively...

    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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