Date column conversion - yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-01...please help
Hi, I have a date column values like 2013-08-25,2013-08-01,2013-09-01 and 2013-09-005 Now I want to make them in such a way that if the datapart value is more than 1, then it should be 1... so, the...
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View ArticleCursor much faster when loop. What's wrong ?
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View ArticleFinding duplicate records from two tables
I have table T1 with more than 1000 Records and there are few dulpicates in this table T1 SELECT segment, LandUseGroup, StateAbbreviation,Unit FROM T1 WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT Sc_id, bMP_ID,segment,...
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View Articlebest way to change the value in a table?? (sorry i am a sql noob) :)
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View ArticleDuplicate Across Multiple Tables
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View ArticleI (didn't) find a BUG with the T-SQL Right () function :-þ
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View ArticleSelect Rows Based on Entire 'Subset' Matching Condition
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View ArticleContinue script after error (sp_refreshsqlmodule)
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View ArticleAnother variation on row concatenation
Hi,Suppose I have a table like this:IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.Soils', 'U') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE dbo.Soils; CREATE TABLE Soils( CHKEY varchar (5) NULL, LAYER1 int NULL, A1 decimal (4, 1) NULL, B1 decimal (4,...
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View ArticleGetting data from a week and also that same week in previous months.
I have an issue with some data im trying to get here is my scenariowe'll use the week of august 18-24th for my examplethe user will want the data from this week, but also will want data from the...
View Articleneed time part from datetime column with AM/PM format in SQL 2008
Hi,I want only time part from a datetime column in SQL 2008.I also want to achieve the below,1. I want the format as "hour:minute:second"2. followed by a space and then AM/PM.Example,07:23:45...
View ArticleRenaming databases - code and gotchas
Re: Renaming databases - code and gotchasWe are implmenting a rolling database history. We are going to keep 13 months of productiondb snapshots. At the end of each month db13 is renamed to db0, 12 to...
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I've following tableLabType StartDate EndDate2 2013-09-03 09:30:00.000 2013-09-03 10:30:00.0002...
View ArticleFULL JOIN does not work as expected
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View ArticleQuery runs very slowly only in particular database while its ok in other...
Dear All,I have this strange issue with one of the queries in one particular database. First to put some light on the background I will describe in short the configuration:1. Microsoft SQL Server 2008...
View ArticleDelete performance - Nested subqueries vs Join
Hi, I'm trying to understand the performance difference between two queries. I've had to change the table names as I can't post schema details online! I stumbled across a stored procedure which seemed...
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