It depends on the role and the organisation. ...

I would make the VARCHAR field a little bigger especially if you are going to build the contents of the TXT column dynamically,

With the statement you provided the string in...

Don't get confused between a PK and a clustered index, the Clustered...

Cursors are notoriously slow so I would advise avoiding them except in a specific instance.

It would help if you could post some sample data and the output you are...

This is an old favourite, check this thread http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1435577-392-1.aspx

Phil Parkin's example is the best solution if you just want a single TotalDiscount and is Basically

SELECT (1 - EXP(SUM(LOG(1-Discount/100.0)))) *...

Igor Micev (1/23/2015)

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This is something that I noticed some period ago, and it's definitely a good idea - a filter for the columns to be implemented in ssms.

Sometimes I use...

If the stats refresh doesn't work,

Do you have a DBA monitoring the servers?

As its possible that having seen the processors running hot he decided to set the Max Degree...

I tend to use Id rather than ID. Mainly due to being trained to use Pascal case naming conventions, even when I'm typing I occasionally throw in a capital...

I wonder if the reason is the Scalar Function, which seems to be generating an on the fly surrogate key, is there a reason why the Age band view isn't...

Why not just use the tools that MS give you with the SSDT, reverse engineer the database into an SQL DB Project in VS2012 shell (or Vs2010 shell), then use...

Can you post a simple DDL of the table, some sample data and expected results so people can see what you are trying to do.

Heres another example but with the values split out.

CREATE TABLE #RawData

(

CalDate Date

,Value1 INT

,Value2 INT

,Value3 INT

)

INSERT INTO #RawData

VALUES ('01-Jan-2014',100,120,300),('02-Jan-2014',80,150,300),('03-Jan-2014',100,20,180)

DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(4000) = 'SELECT '

DECLARE @SQLFrom...

Something like this should work

CREATE TABLE #RawData

(

CalDate Date

,Value1 INT

,Value2 INT

,Value3 INT

)

INSERT INTO #RawData

VALUES ('01-Jan-2014',100,120,300),('02-Jan-2014',80,150,300),('03-Jan-2014',100,20,180)

Select * from #RawData

DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(4000) = 'SELECT '

DECLARE @SQLFrom NVARCHAR(4000)...

Some interesting quirks mentioned.

A lot of UK have 2 'fiscal years', one is tied to the UK government tax year, which runs Apr-Mar and is the basis for Tax and...

You might want to try a Recursive CTE, check out BOL for examples, I think its Example D or E on the BOL WITH (common Table Expression) help page.