Sorry my misatke..I copied wrong data.

Here is the correct one:

CREATE TABLE #Data1

(

[a] [char] (2)NOT NULL,

[Char] (2)NOT NULL,

[Odate] [int] NOT NULL

)

INSERT INTO #Data1

SELECT 'a1','b1',20080129

UNION

Select 'a1','b1',20080226

--March month is missing

UNION

Select 'a1','b1',20080630

UNION

Select 'a1','b1',20080730

UNION

Select...

Hi,

I am able to find the missing months.What I am looking for is some fast way to roll up the data in a report I have shown in second table...

See if this is what you want.

select * from tbNames where nId in (select nId from tbOldNames where nParent=@nParent OR @nParent='ALL')

The above query will return all the records when you...

Hi,

yes you can use pivot in the following way

SELECT Name,[1] as [1-2009],[2] as [2-2009]

FROM

(

SELECT NAME,Month,Year,Value

FROM #t

) p

PIVOT

(

MAX (Value)

FOR [MONTH] IN

([1],[2])

) AS pvt

Parul

is this you looking for?

select host_name()

John,

I checked the length of the field and column. They are in sync.Also when I re ran my package, it executed without any problem. I am looking for the reason...

You are correct Jeff.Seth's approach was the fastest.. I had some 280000000 + records in my tables wherein I have to populate the NULL values. Using seth's appraoch I was...

a big thank you to each one of you guys. All the solution provided are working for me. Only thing I have to check is to find the best performing...

Hi Seth

Thanks for sharing the link of the articale. I tried understanding but I was not able to understand it to the extent to implement in a way I...

This is coming from a free text box from the front end alongwith other text and it is stored in the database in a column

The value is something like this

"Ideally...

Use Northwind

ALTER PROC TEST(

@DATABASENAME VARCHAR(30),

@COUNTOUT INT OUTPUT

)

AS

BEGIN

DECLARE @v_SQL nVARCHAR(4000)

DECLARE @COUNT INT

SET @V_SQL='SELECT @COUNT=COUNT(*) FROM '+@DATABASENAME+'..Authors'

EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL @V_SQL,N'@COUNT INT OUTPUT',@COUNT OUTPUT

SET @COUNTOUT=@COUNT

RETURN @countout

END

Alter PROC CALL

AS

BEGIN

DECLARE @sql...

can you provide example??

BTW check this out. if it works for you

BEGIN

DECLARE @Col varchar(20)

DECLARE @val varchar(20)

SET @col='ABC'

SET @val='XYZ'

exec ('SELECT * FROM SUBJECT WHERE '  + @Col...