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Tuning query to remove joins for reporting

This is the query I was sent. There is currently no data in the system as I was converting this query from teradata to SQL server. SELECT user_id FROM user_table LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT user_id , ...
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NEWID() In Joined Virtual Table Causes Unintended Cross Apply Behavior

My actual work query was an inner join, but this simple example with cross join seems to nearly always reproduce the problem. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 ) AA ( A ) CROSS JOIN ...
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Alternative query to this (avoid DISTINCT)

Note: I work with MSSQL 2008, but I guess it's valid for many others DB engines I have this table "Users": UserID User CountryID 1 user 1 1 2 user 2 2 3 user 3 3 4 user ...
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INNER JOIN making COUNT(*) slow

I have a very simple query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM messages INNER JOIN users ON messages.user_id = users.user_id With the join it takes 1146 ms and without it takes 220 ms (220 ms still seems slow to ...
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Merge multiple table output but indicate which tables the records came from

I have an application with a function that uses a stored procedure (SQL Server 2008 R2) to pull in and arrange data from one table. Now, I’ve been asked to make it pull from two tables, but it’s not ...
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SQL JOIN Syntax in MS SQL

I have been taught in my MSSQL classes, this is how to join two tables select * from FirstTable A JOIN SecondTable B on A.ID= B.ID Now in my professional life, I came across JOIN queries like ...
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Why is this Full Outer Join not working?

I've used Full Outer Joins before to get my desired results, but maybe I don't fully understand the concept because I am not able to accomplish what should be a simple join. I have 2 tables (which ...