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  • RE: Outer Apply within an Outer Apply

    Try this:

    SELECT

    emp.eid, emp.agentid,

    info.emailid,

    mail.EmailAddr, mail.LName, mail.FName

    FROM employees...

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  • RE: Data in certain fields in a table needs to be encrypted and later on decrypted to be used in sp. What should be the appropriate data type that can be used so that the same column can hold both the encrypted form and decrypted form of data?

    sql_variant would be a good data type for this.

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  • RE: Random fill.

    You don't want to modify the target table structure, as that will have lots of overhead.

    Does the target table have a unique key column(s)? If not, can you add...

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  • RE: Select Only Rows with Alphabetical Character in Column

    Jeff Moden (4/17/2014)


    ScottPletcher (4/17/2014)


    WHERE

    column_name LIKE '[a-z]%'

    That won't reject strings like '1.62073e+015'

    It won't?? That string doesn't look like it starts with a letter to me ......

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  • RE: How to handle this

    DECLARE @parameter int

    SET @parameter = 2 --NULL=ALL; spec. value = that value

    SELECT

    col1ID,

    CASE WHEN COUNT(DISTINCT Col2ID) = 1 AND

    ...

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  • RE: Selecting Data by Date for last five days AND avoiding weekend dates

    I think this query will give you what you need in separate rows. If so, let us know, and we can pivot it to a single row.

    DECLARE @control_date datetime

    SET...

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  • RE: Using CAST or CONVERT to change data from string to datetime

    I suggest:

    1) be sure to pad the month and day values so that the final format is a full yyyymmdd.

    2) apply column names to make the code easier to understand...

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  • RE: Select Only Rows with Alphabetical Character in Column

    WHERE

    column_name LIKE '[a-z]%'

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  • RE: Query optimization help

    Lynn Pettis (4/17/2014)


    ScottPletcher (4/17/2014)


    Lynn Pettis (4/17/2014)


    ScottPletcher (4/17/2014)


    You need to do further research before you change the existing index to a filtered index, because that index will no longer satisfy queries...

    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: Metrics to determine switch to Enterprise

    SpeedySQL (4/17/2014)


    If you're considering upgrading to SQL 2012, be aware that the licensing model is changing to per core. Another factor you may want to look at apart from...

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  • RE: Query optimization help

    Lynn Pettis (4/17/2014)


    ScottPletcher (4/17/2014)


    You need to do further research before you change the existing index to a filtered index, because that index will no longer satisfy queries originally using it...

    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 optimization help

    You need to do further research before you change the existing index to a filtered index, because that index will no longer satisfy queries originally using it if you filter...

    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: Looking for elegant solution! Finding match over multiple rows

    gbritton1 (4/16/2014)


    Or, in that same snippet, take advantage of the fact that you initialize the variable @CompleteSetFound to 0 in the declaration. Then you can simplify to:

    IF EXISTS (

    ...

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  • RE: Looking for elegant solution! Finding match over multiple rows

    I think this coding could theoretically perform better:

    ...

    IF (@AnimalsFound = 1)

    BEGIN

    SET @CompleteSetFound =

    CASE WHEN EXISTS(SELECT

    1

    FROM @FarmMatches ri

    INNER JOIN [dbo].[Animal] ani ON ani.[FeatureID] = ri.[OverallID]

    GROUP BY

    FeatureID, Code

    HAVING

    MAX(CASE WHEN TypeName...

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  • RE: Query optimization help

    I suggest changing one of your existing indexes to also cover this query:

    CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [AI_OperatorCBGEstimate_14947]

    ON OperatorCBGEstimate ( DateEndedStandard, UpdOperation )

    ...

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