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  • RE: round down

    You can get the result you need: the specific method depends on specifically what you need to do. If you can provide sample values and the desired results, we...

  • RE: Time difference

    For anything less than 24 hours, you can do this:

    SELECT

    CONVERT(varchar(8), DATEADD(SECOND, DATEDIFF(SECOND, segstart, segstop), 0), 8)

    FROM (

    SELECT CAST('20130906 09:28:00' AS datetime) AS...

  • RE: Help with Output in a Merge Statement

    Just list the column names that are being inserted into the new table; you don't have to supply all columns. For example, see below; naturally your specific column names...

  • RE: SELECT???? Query idea???

    SELECT *

    FROM dbo.tablename

    WHERE Customer IN (

    SELECT Customer

    FROM dbo.tablename

    GROUP BY Customer

    HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT Contract) > 1

    ...

  • RE: Updating a Temp Table column with data from another column in same Temp Table (data from previous month)

    UPDATE CurrMonth

    SET [PrevPerc] = PrevMonth.[CurrPerc]

    FROM #Month CurrMonth

    INNER JOIN #Month PrevMonth ON

    PrevMonth.[DEPARTMENT] = CurrMonth.DEPARTMENT AND

    PrevMonth.[YEAR] = CurrMonth.[YEAR] - CASE WHEN CurrMonth.[MONTH] =...

  • RE: Working with Strings

    I wouldn't use PARSENAME here because of potential side effects, for example, periods (.) in the data or brackets ([]) around a piece of data. The code below should...

  • RE: Change Data Capture as a long-term change-tracking solution

    Yeah, it wasn't intended to be used that way, so my guess is it wouldn't work all that well for that. Even performance could become a real issue at...

  • RE: Query to Return each field that is Not Null

    Something like this may do it for you:

    SELECT

    tn.ID, tn.Status, tn.Description, tn.[Project Number],

    ColNames.ColName

    FROM dbo.tablename tn

    INNER JOIN (

    SELECT 'FreeText01'...

  • RE: Clustered Indexes on Identity columns

    Grant Fritchey (9/4/2013)


    ScottPletcher (9/4/2013)


    I admit, this is my pet peeve in physical table design. Identity as clus key is ridiculously over-, and, thus improperly, used. So I get...

  • RE: Clustered Indexes on Identity columns

    Grant Fritchey (9/4/2013)


    ScottPletcher (9/4/2013)


    Grant Fritchey (9/4/2013)

    Instead I've noticed that you're probably going to have an "identity more likely than not" approach on most systems just because it makes sense.

    I'd disagree...

  • RE: Clustered Indexes on Identity columns

    Grant Fritchey (9/4/2013)

    Instead I've noticed that you're probably going to have an "identity more likely than not" approach on most systems just because it makes sense.

    I'd disagree even with that;...

  • RE: Same query, two users, different performance

    Are schema names specified on the tables in the query? If not, what are the default schemas of the two users running the queries?

  • RE: Clustered Indexes on Identity columns

    @DaveDB:

    You're quite right. There's no genuinely good reason for the "default" clustering key to be an identity column. Many people just do it by rote, without thinking about...

  • RE: Help with query to get monthly data

    SELECT

    [Database],

    MAX(CASE WHEN MONTH(ReportDate) = 01 THEN Size END) AS Jan,

    MAX(CASE WHEN MONTH(ReportDate) = 02 THEN Size END) AS...

  • RE: Trying to bypass via tsql a database when it is offline

    Patti Johnson (9/4/2013)


    Thank you so much for your help. I've been digging and digging so I appreciate your time.

    IF DATABASEPROPERTYEX('archer', 'Status') = 'ONLINE'

    AND EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM sys.database_mirroring WHERE...

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