One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

</pre><BR><BR>My method so far has been to select all clientIDs with multiple records (group by clientid having count(*) > 1) and using a cursor + dynamic SQL to insert all the records for a given ...