Post back if you have problems. I suspect when you dig through his article you will see how to utilize this against your proc (hint cross apply the function)....

Take a look at the string splitter link in my signature. It is exactly what you need.

Like this?

select top 1

A.productID,

B.surrogateID2,

C.description

from

#tableB as B

INNER JOIN #tableA as A on b.surrogateID1 = a.surrogateID1

INNER JOIN #tableC as C on b.surrogateID2 = c.surrogateID2

where

b.surrogateID1 = (select max(b2.surrogateID1)

...

You are welcome. Glad that worked for you. The code blocks especially are useful since it does a decent job of even keeping the color coding. We always appreciate the...

Nice job posting your desired output and what you have tried so far. Unfortunately there is little anybody can do without ddl (create table scripts) and sample data (insert statements)....

mckennap (2/24/2012)

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I thought I was using dynamic sql. The same construct worked for defining the columns in an ALTER statement but does not seem to work in the UPDATE statement....

mckennap (2/23/2012)

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Thank you very much. Mycolums were created named exactly how I wanted them. However, I now have a problem accessing the columns using variables. I need to update the...

Like Craig said, it is nearly impossible with the underlying tables to figure this out.

I would suggest taking it out of the dynamic sql and see if the actual code...

rabisco (2/22/2012)

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Each trip through your cursor it will update the ENTIRE table if @prereplace is null.

More than anything else there is no need for a cursor. I will ask again...

I hope you have better names than Function1, @parameter1, Table1 etc...

Seems like just about every table has NOLOCK and is using index hints. How come?

In case you never read about...

From looking at this scaled down example I don't understand why you need a cursor and dynamic sql at all. It is just two insert statements.

rabisco (2/21/2012)

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derek.colley (2/21/2012)

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It's updating all rows because what you are basically saying is for every row, set the bodytext equal to 'code=1' and concatenate other parameters onto it. If...

gary.morey (2/21/2012)

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There actually is a clustered index on the TIME_STAMP column, and as you saw in the insert statement in my post I am using an ORDER_BY. So what...

If you want some real help with please read the first link in my signature. It will explain how to ask questions and what kind of information to post.

gary.morey (2/21/2012)

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I have a staging table (MergedDataStage1) that was populated by inserts from 2 tables. I now need to be able to insert the rows from this staging table...