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Query to generate payroll based on attendance for a month
I have written a query to generate payroll based on attendance for a month, for about 4000 employees. It takes quite a long time to execute. Basically, what I am doing is to joining two different ...
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Insert multiple rows without using CURSOR SQL Server 2014
I have a fairly complex query which insert multiple rows into a table from multiple tables. Its works fine but I really don't want to use cursor as some blog says cursor took long time for execution (...
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SQL Query - records within the last year
Bit of a complicated one for me.
I have a database full of hundreds of thousands of records, many of which are duplicated.
I need to get all records within the last year but making sure every ...
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Determining daylight-saving time in Central European Time
(We are on SQL Server 2008).
The following constellation:
Our applications passes date&time around (in the most horrible way possible).
We want to simplify this. Instead of a culture-specific ...
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Get local datetime from UTC time
One of the app is inserting date in UTC format (column CreateDate). When reporting from this table, I used a difference in hours between the inbuilt ...
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Validating region/state/province codes for different countries
I have a large table in which I store region/state/province codes (two letters) from different countries. I use these region codes further downstream for multiple process. One of the steps I do is a ...
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SQL SP creating certificates for shipping
We ship large spools of copper wire and pallets of copper rod that have to meet specific chemical and mechanical requirements, this is what must be put on the certifications. I created an SP which ...
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Updating 3 columns conditionally on a database table
I need to run this script to update the value of 3 columns based on certain conditions. Right now, this is what I have:
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Loop Through bitarray to retrieve subsets of that bitarray
Objective:
I want to loop through a bitarray and store subsets of that bitarray in a table.
Context:
I have a bitarray with 48 elements where each element represent one hour. I want to look back 24 ...
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Inserting data into SQL-Server table dynamically
I know I can do all this via SSMA quite quickly, but I wanted to see if I could do it efficiently in PowerShell myself as a little project.
Basically, the entire script takes tables from an Access ...
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SQL Stored Procedure to export specified data
I'm currently using a stored procedure(sproc) to export to Excel. The sproc is being passed ...
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Calculate NPS in a stored procedure
We collect customer surveys and one of the questions is the dreaded "How likely are you to recommend our service?" question from which we calculate a Net Promoter Score. (I hate this calculation, but ...
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Retrieving a product's sold quantity
I've written a view to retrieve each product's sold quantity and four week sales average by Branch/Route/...
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Find how much reputation a user had on a given date
I saw this question on MSE and went ahead and wrote a solution to it:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/313561/determining-users-reputation-as-of-particular-date
This calculates the ...
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Filtering query by date built from integers
I am trying to make a stored procedure and pass some parameters for filtering. As soon as filtering is in horizon, code has to be as generic as possible with as few as possible ...
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