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  • RE: Date Validations?

    Michael Valentine Jones (7/22/2013)The CASE expression will verify that the data string is in YYYY-MM-DD format, and is a valid date. It will return a 1 if the date...

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  • RE: search values in a temp table with like operator

    Something like this should be very close at least, I think:

    create proc pSearch

    @searchparam varchar(400) -- values will be entered like this - seperated by comma: John, Mary, 23.10.1980

    as

    set @searchparam...

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  • RE: Selecting records in table only when ALL related records in other table satisfy multiple conditions

    chrissorric (7/17/2013)Thanks for all the help!

    This is what I finally came up with

    SELECTp.OrderNum

    FROM@Orders AS p

    INNER JOIN@Results AS x ON x.LabNum = p.LabNum

    GROUP BYp.OrderNum

    HAVING SUM(Case when x.Flag = 'N'THEN 1...

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  • RE: Issue with DATEDIFF returning Negative Values

    If the first date is greater than the second date, you will get a negative value.

    If you want to treat all date differences as positive, add ABS() function around the...

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  • RE: delete rows

    If you can, instead just truncate the old table, then re-insert only the kept rows.

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  • RE: DATABASE BACK UP PROBLEM

    I would never have them run their own BACKUP command.

    You need to have them call a stored proc so that you can add/override all options necessary to the BACKUP; for...

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  • RE: quick edit data

    For a very small number of immediate changes, it's ok. But close the window immediately after the changes. If you let it hang open, you might cause issues...

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  • RE: Finding the Top X Values Each Day from History Table

    Not much to go on, but probably something like this:

    SELECT ...

    FROM (

    SELECT

    ...,

    ...

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  • RE: CALCULATE 2 years back data

    OK, so:

    datetime_column < DATEADD(YEAR, -2, DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, GETDATE()), 0))

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  • RE: sp_send_dbmail Query

    Just capture value of the RecordID that you just modified in the calling code, and pass it into the code to be dynamically executed:

    @query = 'DECLARE @RecordID AS Varchar(12)

    SET @RecordID...

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  • RE: CALCULATE 2 years back data

    In general, as below. But, if the column is not datetime, CAST the date calc to the exact datetime of the column. For example, if the column is...

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  • RE: Performance Tuning Large update statement--HELP

    dspink (7/15/2013)


    Also any thoughts on this approach?

    Select * INTO T1_Obfuscated FROM T1. (obfuscating only columns needed.) then dropping T1 and renaming T1_Obfuscated to T1. Not really too worried about space...

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  • RE: Performance Tuning Large update statement--HELP

    Sean Lange (7/15/2013)


    Many of the things you listed as possibilities are likely to help but probably the biggest performance woe is calling the same scalar function 11 times for 250...

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  • RE: Finding the most recently modified row from a group of tables

    SELECT IP.IPCode, MAX(AllSubtables.UpdateDate) AS LastUpdateDate

    FROM SAMPLE.IP IP

    INNER JOIN (

    SELECT IPCode, MAX(UpdateDate) AS UpdateDate FROM SAMPLE.IP IP2 GROUP BY IP2.IPCode

    UNION ALL

    SELECT IPCode, MAX(UpdateDate) AS UpdateDate FROM SAMPLE.AddressProfile AP GROUP BY AP.IPCode

    UNION...

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  • RE: Check series is valid or not

    SELECT CASE WHEN Total_Rows = Active_Rows THEN 'Valid' ELSE 'Invalid' END AS Status

    FROM (

    SELECT

    SUM(1) AS Total_Rows,

    ...

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