You're welcome!

Now I have to look up "arduous" in my dictionary...

Max number of columns are restricted to what datatype you use for #Aggregate column. The total size for a row is 8,060 bytes. Using 60 bytes for RowText leaves us...

Why would you want to have a cursor looping through all records when it almost certainly can be done set-based?

When reading your code, it seems to me that you want...

See http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=146&messageid=234068

If data are stored as floating point, use

declare @num table (i float)

insert @num

select 134.000 union all

select 1.1200 union all

select 100.00 union all

select 0.0200

select i,

 convert(varchar,...

Even if there are no Cascades deleted, there might still exist triggers!

Use a derived table, such as

SELECT  CompanyID,

  Contacted_Date,

  FollowUp_Date

FROM  MyTable

INNER JOIN (

   SELECT  CompanyID,

     MAX(Contacted_Date) theDate

   FROM  MyTable

   GROUP BY CompanyID

  ) z ON z.CompanyID = MyTable.CompanyID AND z.theDate = MyTable.Contacted_Date

So following code will not work?

SELECT  web_note_1.CC025_ORG_CODE,

  web_note_1.CC025_EXT_ACCT_CODE,

  web_note_1.CC025_NOTE_CLASS,

  web_note_1.CC025_PROD_CODE

LEFT JOIN TEMP_WEB_NOTES ON TEMP_WEB_NOTES.CC025_ORG_CODE = web_note_1.CC025_ORG_CODE

  AND TEMP_WEB_NOTES.CC025_EXT_ACCT_CODE = web_note_1.CC025_EXT_ACCT_CODE

  AND TEMP_WEB_NOTES.CC025_NOTE_CLASS = web_note_1.CC025_NOTE_CLASS

  AND TEMP_WEB_NOTES.CC025_PROD_CODE = web_note_1.CC025_PROD_CODE

WHERE  TEMP_WEB_NOTES.CC025_ORG_CODE IS NULL

GROUP BY web_note_1.CC025_ORG_CODE,

  web_note_1.CC025_EXT_ACCT_CODE,

  web_note_1.CC025_NOTE_CLASS,

  web_note_1.CC025_PROD_CODE

HAVING  COUNT(*) > 1

Do you have...

Yes, SQL injection could possible be an issue here, if the data in ColumnText is written such way.

But since the beginning of the UPDATE-statement is hardwired with "UPDATE", I right now can't see...

Thanks Ryan.

I have tried to keep the dynamic SQL executions to a minimum for obvious speed reasons. What I think I have provided is a base for creating crosstabs/pivots for...

Yes, in my very first early version. Then I realized that I could potentially come across the 8000 character limit for varchars.

Change

  UPDATE accountBalance

            SET balance = balance - (SELECT debit-credit FROM DELETED)

    WHERE code = (SELECT account FROM DELETED)

to

UPDATE accountBalance 

SET    accountBalance.balance = accountBalance.balance...

Jeff, any idea why DISTINCT behaved significantly different in times using either clustered/non-clustered index and why GROUP BY didn't change times much?

My gut tells my that a clustered index should...

You're welcome, Jeff. Too bad I don't have my old computer with me that had SQL2KSP3 installed to compare times with. 

Great script code for testing!

Is there a difference when having index on the table? Clustered/non-clustered? With/without NOLOCK hint?

Running your test-script without any modification, I got following times (50 executions)

     2.910-2.976 seconds...