Microsoft TechNet Wiki T-SQL Guru - Winners for October!!
The results for October's TechNet Guru competition have been posted!http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2013/11/17/technet-guru-awards-october-2013.aspx Congratulations to all our new Gurus...
View ArticleIncorrect syntax
I try to run this queriyselect first_name, last_name, agefrom studentwhere student.age = (select max(student.age) from studentand student.student_type = 'Overseas Student');but i'm getting errorMsg...
View ArticleT-SQL challenge
Hi,I have table called addr_history and address. The address table stores recent data and addr_history stores the history of the address. In the below query I need minimum create_operator and minimum...
View ArticleTSQL Query
I have three tables #Factsource,#Fact and#DimSource#factSource and#fact are joined on(Rx_Identifier)#FactSource and#DimSource are joined on(Rx_Pres_No, Refill_no)I am loading the #Fact from#factSource...
View ArticleNovember on TechNet: Calling All T-SQL Gurus - Enlighten Us!
"An influential teacher, or popular expert" Oh mighty reader, we need your enlightenment! Only YOU can show us... the TRUE WAY to code! Win the love and adoration of generations to come, by giving...
View ArticleCOUNT DISTINCT WITHIN WINDOW
Hi All,I am trying to get a distinct count within a window. For example:use tempdb; IF OBJECT_ID('T1', 'U') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE T1; CREATE TABLE T1 ( ShipperID int primary key, OrderID int, PickID...
View ArticlePushing inserts into SQL server with C# ?
I want to insert about 5000 (typically, can be 10K+ at times) rows into SQL server at a time. My insert statements are generated by a C# program. One way could be by simply generating a big string...
View ArticleParallel query plan returns different results every time that you run the...
I'm experiencing the problem where a parallel query plan is returning incorrect results on a multicore processor system.The problem is described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981502. Having tried...
View ArticleCreate a table valued function to get dates from a table and run a query
Hi All, Here is my requirement, I need to create a table valued function which basically runs the following query for the current date SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY([abc], 'select * from...
View ArticleThe maximum recursion 100 has been exhausted before statement completion
hi following is the my table , data and stored procedure but when we execute my stored procedure as followsexec CountDownlineNode 'LDS'it does not show any record and it take infinite time in...
View ArticleSQL Statement Troubles
OK, this should pretty easy, but I can't locate any examples of what I need to save my life!! Let's say I have data that looks like the table below. I am trying to count the number of DISTINCT...
View Articlehow to convert the given date format
Take current date as 19/11/2013 to convert this date to YYYYMMDD and concatenate with 01 in place of 'DD'the given like 20131101 and subtract with the given date format to -1 and find out the last...
View ArticleWhat is better in term of performance between these 4 queries
1 . Select * from table1 where table1.A in (1,2,3,4,5,6)2. Select * from table1 where table1.A in (1,2,3) UNION ALL Select * from table1 where table1.A in (4,5,6)3. Select A.* From (Select * from...
View ArticleTesting a Query I have done de-fragmentation of Indexes.
Hey everyone,I'm a long time "lurker" on these forums and I need some help with some of my Queries. So I need to find out the average percentage of fragmentation on each Index. So I ran this...
View ArticleNeed to select multiple rows and return comma delmited value
I have a select statement which returns one seqno value when one type value is entered. I need multiple seqno's returned when multiple type values are entered.The statement is: select seqno from...
View ArticleDuplicating ID
Hi ,I have two tables .Test1 table goes well with inserting data into table .But I want to Test2 Test_ID should references to Test1(ID).Can anyone please help .How to join this query.CREATE TABLE...
View ArticleExec storedprocedure results don't have header info?
I have requirement to send the weekly database size (day by day size) in the form of email attachment?i created sp with below :GO ALTER procedure [dbo].[GETDBSIZEWeeklyReport] as set nocount on select...
View ArticleSQL Server Possible Order By Bug
Hello, We noticed some odd behaviour of the ORDER BY clause inside the following pieces of code: -- Batch 1:DECLARE@iINT = 0SELECT@i= @i+a FROM (SELECT 1aUNION ALLSELECT 2 UNIONALLSELECT 3)x ORDERBY...
View ArticleStored Procedure Not Working
I can't figure out why this stored procedure is not doing what I expect it to do. I have taken the screen shots of the table, data, procedure and the results.I'm expecting this to return 3 rows: 1.2.3,...
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