Question

I’ve got the following fully-working query in SQL Server 2012:

SELECT
    iif(((DATEPART(dw, MeasurementTime) + @@DATEFIRST) % 7) < 2,'Weekend','Weekday') AS PartOfWeek,
    Seasons.Label AS Season,
    CONVERT(TIME,MeasurementTime) AS TimeOfDay,
    FeederLoads.FeederNo AS FeederNo,
    Avg(FeederLoads.kVA) AS Mean,
    StDev(FeederLoads.kVA) AS StdDev
FROM
    FeederLoads INNER JOIN
    Seasons
    ON  Month(FeederLoads.MeasurementTime) = Seasons.Month1 OR 
        Month(FeederLoads.MeasurementTime) = Seasons.Month2 OR 
        Month(FeederLoads.MeasurementTime) = Seasons.Month3
GROUP BY
    ((DATEPART(dw, MeasurementTime) + @@DATEFIRST) % 7),
    Seasons.Label,
    CONVERT(TIME,MeasurementTime),
    FeederLoads.FeederNo;

When I copy and paste the query into the SQL pane of the view definition window, however, the view fails to save.

The error message I get is:

Error in list of function arguments: ‘<‘ not recognized. Unable to
parse query text.

Any ideas why?

Answer 1

You seem to be running that code in a query designer. Unfortunately, not all designers are created equal – so just take the code and run it in a SQL Server Management Studio query window.

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!6/59d86/1/0

This is no different from some very complex MS Access queries that has to be created in SQL View.