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How to find the first missing value in a series in MS SQL

- 14.04.20 - ErcanOPAK comment on How to find the first missing value in a series in MS SQL

Let’s say we have this values in the database: num — 1 2 4 5 6 8 9 11 To Find the first missing value, we can use this: ;WITH CteRN AS( SELECT *, RN = num – ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY num) FROM tbl ) SELECT TOP 1 num – RN FROM CteRN WHERE RN […]

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Get a Tree view with SQL Query

- 27.05.18 | 07.06.22 - ErcanOPAK comment on Get a Tree view with SQL Query

First of all, I must thank to Maulik Dhorajia for his great post. That post saved me a lot. That’s the @Company table we will use: And here is the SQL Query we need to use: — Working Example ;WITH CTECompany AS ( SELECT EmpID, ParentID, PersonName , 0 AS HLevel, CAST(RIGHT(REPLICATE(‘_’,5) + CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),EmpID),20) AS […]

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