Home Forums SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2005 General Discussion DATEFIRST setting oddity RE: DATEFIRST setting oddity

  • November 4, 2010 at 6:59 pm

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    Craig Farrell (11/3/2010)

    It manipulates DATEFIRST and you might botch something up on your real servers if you run it.

    Setting DATEFIRST in a query only affects the session, not the entire server... which is also why I don't understand why people are afraid to write queries that rely on a particular @@DATEFIRST query.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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