Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Grant Fritchey wrote:
Reviving 10 year old zombie threads should probably be a no-no.
If it provides a good answer, especially a more effective good answer, I don't mind. It'll help others when...
--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 6, 2025 at 9:53 pm

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Reply To: Deadlocks after index rebuild

btork wrote:
@jeff - a lot of this rings true with me and this situation. My real challenge is how do I move forward. Should I update the stats for 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)

March 5, 2025 at 10:19 pm

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Reply To: Deadlocks after index rebuild

btork wrote:
We rebuilt a bunch of indexes that had avg_fragmentation_in_percent>30.
This will sound odd but you probably won't get much useful data from the deadlock data other than you're now suffering...
--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 5, 2025 at 5:18 pm

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Reply To: Unable to delete records from table

narayanamoorthy.a wrote:
Yes well noted and conveyed the same to business and application owners. They are well are of the repercussions and will take a call on this. Thank you all...
--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 3, 2025 at 3:47 pm

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Reply To: Upgrading from SQL Server 2016 to 2022

zoggling wrote:
Thank you, have you managed to get past the performance issues as a result of the version upgrade? Do you possibly have any links you can share on why...
--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 3, 2025 at 3:39 pm

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Reply To: KB5046856 fails to install

The error is telling you what is wrong. Also, if you go to the KB article, it will also tell you what is wrong. It's saying that the instances where...
--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 3, 2025 at 1:56 am

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Reply To: Announcing SQL Server 2025

I just want them to fix the serious performance problems that started in 2019 and they've done (apparently) nothing to fix even up 'til today for SQL Server 2022. 🙁
--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 1, 2025 at 2:01 am

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Reply To: Upgrading from SQL Server 2016 to 2022

Yes... but it won't help... Stand up your 2022 server and do some restores and then do test runs against your old server and the new one. The tests should...
--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 28, 2025 at 6:49 pm

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Reply To: Unable to delete records from table

Heh... and people wonder why such a thing won't stand up in court. Ant-Green is spot on!
--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 26, 2025 at 11:42 pm

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Reply To: Found a Tool Very Helpful for Beginner

I appreciate your honest replies and your professionalism in wanting to help others as you learn. That's pretty much the spirit for most of the long term denizens of this...
--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 26, 2025 at 11:39 pm

#4546852
Reply To: Why use Tally Tables in the Fabric Warehouse? Data Engineering in Fabric

John Miner wrote:
I am curious how it (GENERATE_SERIES function)performs compared to the tally table.
It's nasty fast. It's not as flexible as you'll find in other flavors of SQL because it "only"...
--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 26, 2025 at 8:50 pm

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Reply To: Unable to delete records from table

Ant-Green wrote:
That trigger was placed there for a reason.
In financing terms once something is on a journal / ledger, it should ALWAYS remain on that journal / ledger.
If there was...
--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 26, 2025 at 5:27 pm

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Reply To: Why Not Use AI?

jasona.work wrote:
Largely speaking, I've thus far not used any of the various and sundry "AI" implementations out there (either for SQL or anything else,) mostly because, well, I don't see...
--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 26, 2025 at 5:22 pm

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Reply To: Trust is a Funny Thing

David.Poole wrote:
Decades of change and experimentation just to find out that SQLServerCentral remains one of the best online forums.
The system won't let me give that comment the million or so...
--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 26, 2025 at 2:27 am

#4546151
Reply To: Why use Tally Tables in the Fabric Warehouse? Data Engineering in Fabric

Hi, John. Gosh... it's been a long time since we've seen each other in person.
Nice article and thank you for the honorable mention.
Just to add a bit of a clarification,...
--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 26, 2025 at 2:20 am

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