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Tuning reads (or perhaps the truncate!) for unusual database structure requiring regular truncates

We have an unusual database structure (I leave the reasoning for another question), that in it's current form requires a regular truncation and recreation of allot of row (about 1 million). We're ...
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How to avoid duplicating information in a series of nested SELECT statements?

I'm working on an SQL query that puts together customer history based on past purchases (the industry is venue ticketing). The report will be LARGE, something like 80-90 columns, with one column per ...
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Retrieving row count without using Count function

I wrote a query below which shoots me a syntax error why would it do so, SELECT MAX('Row') FROM (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY ID DESC) 'Row' FROM USERS) Error Desc: Incorrect syntax near ...
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SQL Xml returning empty root tag on empty record set

I am working on xml explicit to generate user defined nodes in xml output using Sql Server 2005 Express edition. The below code works fine, just that i couldn't manage to generate a empty node when ...