sql-server-2008-r2

I'm doing a SELECT which uses CASE to convert nvarchar values into a proper type, something like this: SELECT CASE WHEN @propType = 'money' THEN convert(money, datavalue) [...] ELSE datavalue END FROM [...] However, it seems the convert is always executed, even when @propType is not equal to money. Runnable example: declare @proptype nvarchar(50)= 'nvarchar' declare @val nvarchar(10) = 'test' select case @proptype when 'money' then convert(money, @val) else @val end Why is this, and how can I get around it? The MSDN documentation says this: The CASE statement evaluates its conditions

I have a poorly designed table that I did not design and cannot fix/change because a 3rd party blackberry app that writes to it. The meat is that there is a start record and a stop record for tracking events with NO connection or validation that there is a match. The blackberry app does nothing to tie these records together. I have tried to create a join on its self and create temp tables with the begin and one with the end to full outer join them. The problem is that I have duplicate entries were the entry should be marked as having no mate. Existing data has rows with no mate on both the

Is this the correct way to UNION ALL in a stored procedure? ALTER PROCEDURE [GetHomePageObjectPageWise] @PageIndex INT = 1 ,@PageSize INT = 10 ,@PageCount INT OUTPUT ,@whereStoryID varchar(2000) ,@whereAlbumID varchar(2000) ,@wherePictureID varchar(2000) AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; SELECT StoryID , AlbumID , StoryTitle , NULL AS AlbumName , (SELECT URL FROM AlbumPictures WHERE (AlbumID = dbo.Stories.AlbumID) AND (AlbumCover = 'True')) AS AlbumCover , Votes , NULL AS PictureId , 'stories' AS tableName , NEWID() AS Sort INTO #Results1 FROM Stories WHERE StoryID IN (SELECT StringVal FROM

I have two tables named Districts and Schools . The Districts table contains a column named Schools . I need to populate the Schools column of the Districts table from the corresponding Schools table, so that each row in the Districts table has a comma separated list of values of school names from the Schools table. How can I do this? Should I use an UPDATE query or a stored procedure? I only got as far as: SQL Fiddle Districts Table +------------+------+---------+ | DistrictId | Name | Schools | +------------+------+---------+ | 1 | a | | | 2 | b | | | 3 | c | | | 4 | d | | +------------+----