If we are talking about eyes, I would put this in UDF and never see it again.

Of course inside UDF I would choose most effective code, no matter how ugly...

Yes, you made big effort, you are good educated, you even know who was Aristotel, but you are just mising the point.

Hope...

"count(order_total)" will count 2 identical values as 2, not 1.

It will not count rows where order_total IS NULL.

I believe idea of

where convert(char(10),txndatetime, 126) <= convert(char(10), @EndDate,126)

and convert(char(10),txndatetime, 126)...

2 Carl

Did you open the link?

Your mistake is very common.

Comparing (Null = Null) returns FALSE, that's why lines with inv.InvID = NULL will not be included in resultset by NOT IN...

These queries are not equal, they potentially return different results.

See http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=8&messageid=236443

Because of "Create Index ..." following.

Make the function deterministic and set index on it.

DROP TABLE X

CREATE TABLE X(XID INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,

XCALCULATED AS CHAR((XID/26000)%26+65) --1st Letter

...

Functions HOST_NAME ( ), System_User, Current_User could be useful as well.

If you want to kill server performance, increase response time dramatically, make the number of timeout errors unacceptable and finally get fired you definetely should use cursors in triggers.

So, the expected result must be

01.01.05 01 09:00 11:00 ?

Don't use this option:

WHERE

 DATEDIFF(DAY, review_date, GETDATE()) >= 7

It eliminates index on review_date and causes table (or clustered index) scan.

Really bad for performance.

First option is much better.

How can I understand from the data you provided which line means what?

01.01.05 01 08:00 09:00

01.01.05 01 11:00 12:00

look absolutely the same way for me and my SQL Server.

Why one...

It's by definituion of NULL.

NULL means "don't know".

So, it's nether IN nor NOT IN.

For your task it's better to use LEFT JOIN.

Why you don't open the link?

If you want to get value "from Control panel" you must read registry.

Anything else will give you settings of SQL Server, whatever else, they could be the same, could be...