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Why (and how) to split column using master..spt_values?
I have seen something like:
Selet ... from master..spt_values where type='P'
What does this mean?
That is the syntax for specifying a databasename, schema, and table name. You can use this syntax to specify a database different from the database you are currently connected to. In your example, master is the database name, the schema name is unspecified (so it becomes the default dbo schema) and spt_values is the table name.
For clarity, the above could also be: Select ... from master.dbo.spt_values
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I have a table name as 'tblOrder', having three columns. I would like to print the column names.
I want a script that should return a result as:
OrderId Name OrderTrackingNo
SELECT * FROM sys.columns WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID('tblOrder')
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I would like to know from below queries, which one would give better performance and how?
select * from TableA where (Name = 'ABC' or Name = 'DEF' or Name = 'GHI')
or
select * from TableA where Name in ('ABC','DEF','GHI')
Internally both IN and OR operators perform the same action. More importantly you need to see if you have proper index on the Name column.You can have a non-clustered index on the Name column and have one clustered index on this table.
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Does wrapping nullable columns in ISNULL cause table scans?
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Is any diff in below query in term of performance??
select COLUMN1,column2 from table
where COLUMN1 is not null
and COLUMN1 <>'';
select COLUMN1,column2 from table
where isnull(Column1,'')<>'';
You can obtain an execution plan for your query to determine the cost of that operation.
How to do it and the output format really depends on each database product.
In the case of SQL server it may look like:
My intuition tells me that operation in particular should not be expensive. What would rather be expensive is to query a column that is not indexed.
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Finding updated records in SSIS -- to hash or not to hash?
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I've the following workflow in SSIS 14:
Each source have more than million records and I need to execute this workflow everydays at week.
My question is: How can I say to SSIS that I only want to extract only the records that not exists in Table Destination? Like a
INSERT INTO TABLEA
SELET * FROM TABLEB
EXCEPT SELECT * FROM TABLEA
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You can use the Lookup transformation to find out if something exists already.
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Concatenate a selected column in a single query?
I know this is fairly simple in MySQL, but i don't know how to do it in SQLServer. I have a table containing two columns. UserID & TagID. I'd like to concatenate TagID into a comma separated string, where the result is grouped by UserID. How can i do that?
I would ythink something lik ethis might be what you are looking for :
SELECT ''+Table1.UserID+','+Table2.TagID+'' AS CombinedCSVColumn
, SUM(Table1.Value) AS Value
From dbo.Table1 as Table1
INNER JOIN db.Table2 as Table2
ON Table1.EmployeeID = Table2.EmployeeID
GROUP BY ''+Table1.UserID+','+Table2.TagID+''
That is if they come from two Tables. For one table is similar.
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