Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 76 through 90 (of 149 total)

  • RE: Continue on error

    On a separate note.

    GO is a batch separator.

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188037.aspx

    and the definition of a batch is...

    "a group of one or more Transact-SQL statements sent at the same time from an application to...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Merge Output statement [Combine Deleted.* with Inserted.*]

    You can join Deleted & Inserted so you can include columns of both in one result set. Just make sure you have a unique key to join on.

    There are...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Schema

    ZZartin (12/8/2016)


    Inside those views are they maybe referencing things with schema specified, ie SELECT <columns> FROM dbo.TABLE in the views in both schemas?

    Quoting ZZartin to bring more attention to his...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Query optimization

    drew.allen (12/6/2016)


    CELKO (12/6/2016)


    Using proprietary dialect constructs like CROSS APPLY and TOP make optimization difficult

    Now you're just making up stuff to support your claims.

    and portability impossible.

    Who cares?!?! Most people...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Query optimization

    Igor Micev (12/5/2016)


    I'll have to check about the DISTINCT. it seems that can be removed, but i'm not sure about whether there could be duplicates. will it make a bigger...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: can this be done in another way

    mxy (12/1/2016)


    ;WITH summary AS (

    SELECT p.Studentstatus,

    p.StudentId ,

    ...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Query optimization

    DDL & DML would help.

    First of all, you've created a temp table #LocalizedCategories, but you are doing a Select Distinct on it. Is there any reason you couldn't have...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Search query based on four separate parameters.

    mack53nico (12/1/2016)Is it possible to rewrite the code that encapsulates all these combinations in a concise way?

    SELECT Source_System, Identifier, Forename, Surname, Date etc....

    FROM tblTable

    WHERE

    (Identifier = @identifier

    OR...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: SQL Query

    Another option:

    SELECT @Dummy = CASE WHEN LEN( Med_Rec_Nbr ) < 7

    THEN RIGHT('000000'...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: SQL Query

    SELECT ps.Med_Rec_Nbr, REPLACE(STR(ps.Med_Rec_Nbr,7),' ','0')

    FROM @Primary_Summary AS ps

    This approach also makes it obvious if you got a number larger than expected, rather than truncating to 7 characters.

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Functions Database

    - Cross database access requires some additional security checks.

    - The connection to another database will require an additional session, which will have its own CPU and memory overhead....

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Search query based on four separate parameters.

    mack53nico (12/1/2016)


    He may be wrong, but I won't be the one to tell him that 😀

    You said you're new, but I strongly recommend you do tell him. His response...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Update Table Left Join Linkserver

    On an unrelated note, you've created these objects in the master database. That is a very bad idea. If at all possible, you should move those to a...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: Running Visual Basic 6.0 Application (Old SQL Inline Queries + Depreciated Functions with SQL Server 2014/ 2016

    wajahatabbas (11/25/2016)


    We want to upgrade our database to the latest SQL Server 2014 or 2016, but we dont want to put our efforts on the application upgrade side.

    How much...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

  • RE: A scenario where SQL Server doesn't seem to help

    A couple more questions:

    You said lots of queries time out, but not all. Have you looked to see if there are specific columns that experience the timeouts? I...

    Wes
    (A solid design is always preferable to a creative workaround)

Viewing 15 posts - 76 through 90 (of 149 total)