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SEDE query to count questions, views and unanswered for a set of tags

This query selects the number of SO questions, the number of views and the number of unanswered questions for each tag (the list of the tags is the user input). It works fine when it works, but it ...
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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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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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Modeling tabular structure in MSSQL to store data like Excel sheet applying Column inheritance

I've created this database structure to store tabular information (it's a simplification of my real structure but enough to show the point). In it I have Sheets and ...
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SQL Server - Iterate, aggregate, and insert

I'm trying to find an efficient way to aggregate data for reporting. Let's say I need to aggregate the following data in 5-second intervals: ...
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SQL query to check if 100+ (or dynamic) columns in table are null

Let’s assume a table has more than 100 columns and I want to display all the rows when all of its columns (Col1, Col2, …, ColN) are nulls except for the column(s) I mentioned (PK). This is just a ...
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Displaying a single record based on DocID

I have a table with ~900,000 records. I need to display a single record based on DocID using this query. The record is the latest record that got modified by another program. This piece of query run ~...
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search for text across multiple tables

I've got the following query. ...
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T-SQL query outer apply with nested subqueries

I have the following 3 tables, and I don't have the option to modify them. [Logs] table with [log_type], ...
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Insert to table from a temporary table [closed]

I created a procedure involving dynamically collecting from various projects (databases) some records into a temporary table and from that temporary table I am inserting into a table. With a ...
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Remove table variable from query

I am running this query, and to get the calculation that I need, I use a table value parameter to house some of the data. Scanning roughly 50K rows to create the table value parameter then performing ...
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Optimising performance of long running a sql query

The code below takes 5-6 hours for a years worth of data (850,000 records). It takes much less time when running a single month. To start with is there anything glaringly obvious within this script ...
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Storing user permissions to hierarchically structured data in SQL Server

I'm developing a system that supports creating accounts and multiple users within every account that can each access a certain subset of data of their "parent" account. The data is stored in a SQL ...
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Acquiring earnings information

The first part of the query grabs Policy's Premiums, Effective and ...
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Correlated subquery slow

I have a table that looks like this Directory nvarchar(max) Extension nvarchar(10) Length bigint I also have another table that provides the type of file (lookup table) extension nvarchar(10) ...
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