Jeff Moden

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Reply To: The string_agg function

I had no idea about PostGreSQL but I figured it's odd enough for it to work there as a Windowing Function. And, of course, it doesn't work in SQL Server.
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

May 22, 2026 at 12:44 pm

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Reply To: SSC Spam

The system just got blasted with spam.

--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

May 7, 2026 at 2:21 pm

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Reply To: SPAM Issues May 2026

The system just got rapid fire blasted by mulitiple (didn't count them) spams.

--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

May 7, 2026 at 2:19 pm

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Reply To: Query compile/runtime issue

"Blocking" could cause this... and it can be for a LONG time.
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

May 7, 2026 at 2:13 pm

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Reply To: The Evolution of AI

Steve Collins wrote:
It's all predicated on the false assumption "a billion flies can't be wrong"
I love it. My term for it is "Corpus Infectious". It's similar to "Bandwagon" that has chicken...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

May 7, 2026 at 1:40 pm

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Reply To: How do I explain that SQL Server should not be used as a code repository?

The resulting code was more than the 2 billion bytes that could be stored in a VARCHAR(MAX)...
Whoever it is, they need a little training on the BI and, I'll say,...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

May 7, 2026 at 1:26 pm

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Reply To: SPAM Issues May 2026

I reported one as SPAM this morning, as well.

--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

May 7, 2026 at 1:15 pm

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Reply To: T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server

Really nice article that explains the "FLOAT problem", Imran2629. Thanks for taking the time to put it together,
It's amazing to me that MS apparently hasn't figured out how to use...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

May 1, 2026 at 3:10 pm

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Reply To: Half of All Engineers

I wonder why people think that "moving slower" is a bad thing.
The good part about that is, they're going to need people to fix the stuff that the companies that...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

May 1, 2026 at 2:29 pm

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Reply To: data compare between 2 tables with same structure for any changes after etl run

syam.tunuguntla wrote:
i have huge table with lot of data and is also wide. i took a backup of it before procedure is run in test environment. now i am trying...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

April 24, 2026 at 5:11 pm

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Reply To: that one limitation in replication

Do you have a unique Clustered Index or Non-Clustered Index on the table or a column that could take one. If the answer is "Yes", at a PK constraint to...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

April 24, 2026 at 4:52 pm

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Reply To: Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server

I appreciate anyone that steps up to the proverbial plate to share knowledge. Thank you for that.
The hard truth is that is an example of procedural thinking possibly being justified...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

April 10, 2026 at 12:28 pm

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Reply To: Changing Data Types

We made some datatype changes in older tables that were created by people that probably should not have been allowed near a computer. These were the type of people that...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

March 19, 2026 at 2:02 am

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Reply To: AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA

To be honest, this all sounds like one of those developers that believes that "Knuth's Parable" about "Preoptimization is the Root of All Evel" means that you never have to...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

February 24, 2026 at 10:48 pm

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Reply To: Eight Minutes

Heh... you said a mouthful on the "bad" stuff. I actually asked ChatGPT about things like that and it says that it is programmed to basically come up with the...
--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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

January 27, 2026 at 2:01 am

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