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  • RE: Go to next record when there is a constraint issue.

    You would need to code the time constraints in your WHERE clause. That is, bypass those rows yourself rather than trying to have SQL do it itself.

    You might not...

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  • RE: IF or CASE on 2 different columns, THEN values x, y or z

    am wondering if the CASE requires all arguments to run against the exact same column?

    No. CASE is very flexible: you can compare any columns you need to, in any...

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  • RE: Last Sunday of a month in sql

    ScottPletcher (2/11/2013)


    Michael Valentine Jones (2/11/2013)


    ScottPletcher (2/11/2013)


    Method below works for any and all date and language settings:

    DECLARE @startDate datetime

    DECLARE @number_of_months int

    SET @startDate = GETDATE()

    SET @number_of_months = 7

    SELECT

    DATEADD(DAY,...

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  • RE: Last Sunday of a month in sql

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  • RE: missing index already exists

    Marius.D (2/11/2013)


    Scott:

    or maybe you specified DESC on one of the existing index keys?!

    I did not, but would that make a difference? I didn't think the missing indexes...

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  • RE: Last Sunday of a month in sql

    Method below works for any and all date and language settings:

    DECLARE @startDate datetime

    DECLARE @number_of_months int

    SET @startDate = GETDATE()

    SET @number_of_months = 7

    SELECT

    DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, '19000107', last_day_of_month) / 7...

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  • RE: missing index already exists

    Hmm, that still doesn't make sense.

    Compare them very closely: there must be some difference somewhere ... or maybe you specified DESC on one of the existing index keys?!

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  • RE: Decimal vs Numeric

    In SQL Server, there is no difference.

    I guess the backward compatability would be that you can still use "numeric" rather than the offical "decimal".

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  • RE: Database Design Help

    Yeah, reasonably close.

    Probably the major difference is that the OP and myself don't want to "flatten" the Chain and Store into a single "location".

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  • RE: Performance Issue - understanding query plans

    nick.mcdermaid (2/7/2013)


    Thanks for your advice Scott.

    I did change the PK to

    RowNum_Start,SRC_System, SRC_Application

    and also

    SRC_System, SRC_Application,RowNum_Start

    (Yes I know you can create a clustered index that isn't based on the primary key)

    In both...

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  • RE: Split Sql Server Index Rebuild job into several parts - Divide load of Rebuild Index job

    You could move the BLOB(s) to a different table; use views if you need to, to combine the original table columns and the BLOB(s), to keep current apps "happy".

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  • RE: Split Sql Server Index Rebuild job into several parts - Divide load of Rebuild Index job

    So are you doing a REORG or a REBUILD?

    Is it on Enterprise Edition (2008)?

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  • RE: Database Design Help

    You need to keep this normalized and have a separate table for every relation. You could even create an additional table to control the chain/store incidents if needed.

    Here's some...

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  • RE: Split Sql Server Index Rebuild job into several parts - Divide load of Rebuild Index job

    You could partition the table; if you're lucky, the older data will not even need rebuiilt, and you can greatly reduce rebuild time and overhead.

    Even if it all still needs...

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  • RE: My first UDF doesn't work. Thoughts?

    I strongly recommend fully qualifying all table names with the owning schema, typically "dbo" but of course could be different in your specific environment.

    For example:

    ...

    from dbo.AbstractData a

    inner join dbo.AbsDrgDiagnoses b...

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