CASE count wierd join needed maybe? just one more field needed!

Right, I used your handy answers to get a solution that worked.. Your
last method was the one to use but i left it running for 3 hours and
it still hadn't returned any results! (and it's a stupidly high spec
server with pretty much just sql on there)

anyway.. so in SQL Server managment studio i found the "Views" section
(sorta like tempory tables i presume) and popped this into a new one
call kev_bin.

WITH Bin1 AS (SELECT ItemID, MAX(DateTimeCreated) AS MDate
FROM dbo.BinItem AS Bin1
GROUP BY ItemID)
SELECT Bin2.ItemID, Bin2.BinName
FROM dbo.BinItem AS Bin2 INNER JOIN
Bin1 AS Bin1 ON Bin2.ItemID = Bin1.ItemID
AND Bin2.DateTimeCreated = Bin1.MDate

I could then go back to my orignal SQL and use the following to grap
the data from the newly created table kev_bin above:

Select ... .. ...
kbin.BinName as location

Quote:

Originally Posted by

>From ...

...
dbo.kev_bin kbin
...
WHERE ..
item.ItemID = kbin.ItemID
....

and this runs in about 20 seconds :D

thanks again for all your help, i couldn't have done it without!(kevin@.nu-urbanmusic.co.uk) writes:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

anyway.. so in SQL Server managment studio i found the "Views" section
(sorta like tempory tables i presume) and popped this into a new one
call kev_bin.

Views are just a logical concept. Except for indexed view, they are not
materialised, and they are expanded so that the optimizer works with the
expanded query. That is, essentiall a macro.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...oads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodin...ions/books.mspx|||On Nov 6, 10:31 pm, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@.sommarskog.sewrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

(ke...@.nu-urbanmusic.co.uk) writes:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

anyway.. so in SQL Server managment studio i found the "Views" section
(sorta like tempory tables i presume) and popped this into a new one
call kev_bin.

>
Views are just a logical concept. Except for indexed view, they are not
materialised, and they are expanded so that the optimizer works with the
expanded query. That is, essentiall a macro.
>
--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esq...@.sommarskog.se
>
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 athttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books...
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 athttp://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

Hi Kev,

Glad I could help :)

Jsql