When tempdb runs out of disk space, you have to discover what filled the disk:

1) Tempdb itself. It could have been filled by temporary tables or internal objects.

2) Some other...

The compiler doesn't like the doubel parenthesis around your @sql string:

DECLARE @CID BIGINT,@SQL NVARCHAR(2000),@Val CHAR(8),@ID INT,@SQL1 NVARCHAR(800),@C INT,

@Column_Val_R VARCHAR(200)

SET @CID = 123

SET @C = 2

SET @ID = 2

SET @sql =...

Glad I could help.

Glad I could help.

Thanks for the fun in coding it. 🙂

You're welcome.

Glad I could help.

Usually, when the optimizer decides to pick a parallel plan it's because it could not find something "smarter" to do.

Operators that fit well in a parallel plan are hash joins,...

Your question was really interesting, so I coded another solution that works with a more efficient plan, using UNPIVOT:

;WITH Incident_Events AS (

-- Create an event sequence...

Sure! Just don't be so impatient... We are all volunteers on these forums and we answer questions during our free time.

To set the collation during setup, you...

jamesmario (2/3/2011)

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Thanks for your reply. when i ran this query by setting a new value to @last_updated_min, i didn't get any results back and no error message showed up. The...

OK, I think I got it.

I hope this is not overcomplicating the initial problem...

;WITH Incident_Events (Project, Event_Time, Event_Type, SumAs)

AS (

-- Create an event sequence

...

DBA_Dom (2/3/2011)

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With 2005 and later we now have the DMVs that can be used for this. Take a look at the sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats view. It has the last_user_scan,...,last_user_update columns. One thing...

When posting a question such as this one, you should provide:

1) A script to create a test table to hold sample data

2) A script to insert some sample data in...

Unfortunately there's no built-in "last updated" property for table data, you will have to calculate it from table data itself.

You could create a dynamic sql to check all the tables...

Yet another troll. If you don't feed them, they starve and disappear.

It could definiely be a different case, but this is the issue we were experiencing:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973667/en-us

I hope this helps in your scenario as well.

Gianluca