Thanks Grant.  I've been looking at various books but there are loads.

I'll have a look for Don Jones unless there's something you can recommend?

Regards

Richard

Thanks Grant.  I'd already grabbed a copy of that (and completely forgotten about it until you kicked a few neurons into life!).

I'm also grabbing some books on Powershell (although it...

Thanks folks.

The course from SQLSkills actually started yesterday so I missed out on that one.

It does looks like there are various other offerings available, So i'll keep digging (on the...

Apologies for the delay in responding.

We can't use materialised views for the same reason we can't use indexed views.

I think it's down to the fact we need either:-

• OUTER APPLY
• PIVOT

...

Thanks Anthony.

Looks like we've got some big discussions coming up on the best way to do this.

Thanks for that, I've never heard of change tracking (I'll do some research) but it sounds like it's going to be a lot of work to get it set up.

Something...

@anthony.green - we can't use replication either (vendor won't allow it, and the way they make database changes is weird).

We could replicate from server B to server C...

Thanks for the info.

Just so I'm clear, if we upgrade server A to 2016 Enterprise would that then work, or will the Developer edition on server C kill off that...

Yeah, it would take weeks.

@mike01 - not used materialized views before.  I'll do some digging and see what turns up.

@david.Edwards76768 - Unfortunately not, they are used in other sprocs as...

I've seen that bit as well thanks (and managed to get rid this morning).

I'm just doing a test replacing the OUTER APPLY with a LEFT JOIN and moving things around.

Just...

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Never thought of that (we've done just about everything else!)

I'll try it and see how it goes.

Hi Sergiy

The reasoning escapes me as well, I'd need to speak to the vendor on that one.

All I do know is that we need to store it in that fashion...

Hi all

Apologies for missing any questions, I'll get to them now.

Jeff - VARCHAR(MAX) is used as we don't know what amount of data is in each column.  The other consideration...

Thanks Jeff, looks like I've got plenty of reading to do.

Any thoughts on my new plan?