Intro In 2008 I wrote an article called “Scope: The drastic caveat with Logon Triggers.” Ever since, we have been using Event Notifications to capture logins for our SQL Server instances. Issues were only very rare, usually on servers that had an extreme load of many connections. In such a case, we stopped this continuous monitoring and […]
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SELECT
( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE
soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2011'
AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2012') AS OrdersIn2000
, ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE
soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2012'
AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2013') AS OrdersIn2001
, ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE
soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2013'
AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2014') AS OrdersIn2002;
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