Different way of doing the same thing. Slightly shorter code:

select stuff(stuff(stuff(stuff(stuff(stuff(@eftv_dt,5,0,'-'),8,0,'-'),11,0,' '),14,0,':'),17,0,':'),20,7,'')

You could try something like this, which will curser through a table column, converting each row into title case, ie upper case the first letter of every word following a...

Yep, that makes more sense. Ignore my answer!

Until this point I never realised that numeric allows greater calculating abilities than ints or bigints - doh!

Hmmm

Well that's going to be a bit of a problem then.

Basically you won't be able to do that calculation as is, as sql cannot calculate int values over the maximum...

Wrap each numeric part inside a cast as bigint statement. That should give you a few trillion to play with.

select cast( as bitint) * cast(8192 as bigint) etc...

So Antares686

It sounds like you had an idea up your sleeve as to how to order a full rowed table like:

SELECT * FROM TestC, TestC As TblA

so,what was it,...

In my keenness to post a reply, I neglected to join in the 'debate'

The query uses a cross join

select a, b, c, d, e

from testC ,(select cast(newId() as varchar(50))...

select a, b, c, d, e

from testC ,(select cast(newId() as varchar(50)) as GUID) as B

Order By GUID

Try something like this:

CREATE PROCEDURE spProcess

@strDynTable char (30),

@id int

declare @sql varchar(8000)

set @sql = '

declare @tmpuid varchar(50)

select @tmpuid = uid from '+ @strDynTable+' where id...

Consider it verified!

In which case, can I revise my original post to "Can you time something that runs in less that three millisecond"...no never mind!!, Thanks for your replies

Well like I said, was more out of interest that a real need.

But if you had a piece of code that could be written in two different ways, and both...

I don't know if others think this is a bad idea, but one option you potentially have is to remove the offending word from SQL's Ignored/Noice file, typically found in:

\\SERVERNAME\c$\Program...

Hi

Thanks for replying.

I like that idea, it only falls down if there is a single entry in the staging table, it will still do the full incrementation on all updated...

--Try:

-- set up parameter

declare @Date datetime

set @Date = '01 jan 2002 12:00:00.000'

-- convert date into text format

select convert(varchar(30), @date, 106)

--or take day part and pad with leading zero

if len(day(@date)) =...

Getdate() cannot be used in User Defined Functions (because it is not deterministic).

I guess in this instance, the current date would have to be passed in as a parameter.

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