Thanks for the replies.  I don't want to use NOLOCK because I want to be sure that the feature is enabled before kicking off the job.  A customer might have...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by  John Deupree.

We want to implement a master location and make...

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Co-worker gave me this code so it seems that your solution or either of these work. Only problem is that they don't check for valid objects...

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Sorry this is for 2008R2. 🙁

That's new for 2012

Just curious. Why do you say it doesn't...

Very nice! It took me a while to get my head around using the row number functions to eliminate the consecutive 'same status' records.

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andrewd.smith (4/30/2009)

Sorry about the confusion. Given the date range 1/1/2009 through 3/31/2009, how many days was each consumer active during that date range. Wayne's 'quirky update' technique above seems...

Thanks for the reply. Wow, what an interesting article and technique. I can see how that might have a lot of uses. I never thought about the...

Number of...

Thanks all for the replies.

It was an OLTP application. The DB was a bit unusual in that there were very few deletes. We (the DBAs) would...

Thanks for the reply. It's funny you would mention the application code handling it. That's exactly why I didn't add them in the first place. I had...

TOP limits the number of rows returned by your query. Assuming there are less than 1000 rows returned by the first query without the TOP,then adding the TOP 1000...

Thanks. I was thinking only of the recursive trigger setting which only controls triggers calling themselves. I wasn't aware that the nested trigger setting could control this. ...

I'll see if I can fo this. Thanks