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  • RE: Where Do Staging Tables Belong

    Orlando Colamatteo (12/29/2015)


    I have had people scoff at running staging databases in FULL, taking backups and including them in Availability Groups and have had people scoff at running them in...

    --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)

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (12/29/2015)


    That picture has always struck me... it's either a picture of Grant's back yard when he's BBQ'ing or a picture of Detroit on a bad night. Of...

    --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)

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Phil Parkin (12/29/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (12/29/2015)


    Phil Parkin (12/29/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (12/29/2015)


    Phil Parkin (12/29/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (12/29/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (12/29/2015)


    I really appreciate the effort of those who write the articles posted on this site but...

    --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)

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    djj (12/29/2015)


    Michael L John (12/29/2015)


    The Detroit area is actually not nearly as bad as people may think, and, Michigan in general is a pretty nice place.

    Plus, you can...

    --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)

  • RE: Where Do Staging Tables Belong

    lmarkum (12/29/2015)


    Definitely helpful feedback and it assures me that I was on the right path I just needed to confirm that if possible.

    As for the use of SSIS, I encouraged...

    --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)

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (12/29/2015)


    Jeff Moden (12/29/2015)


    I rather like the mostly unedited type of articles that are posted on SQLServerCentral. As a regular working Joe-bag-o-dunuts, I don't have a whole lot...

    --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)

  • RE: Send email from T-SQL

    mw112009 (12/29/2015)


    i am not a dba

    I'll still post the code but, do yourself a real favor to keep your butt out of the sling... ask your DBA if it's alright...

    --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)

  • RE: Shrink Database

    david.holley (12/29/2015)


    Before I posted, I googled around and found a good many articles/posts that basically said to 'Never, never, never, never' shrink the file because of what it does 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)

  • RE: Shrink Database

    simon-hulse (12/29/2015)


    The option is there because sometimes you do need to shrink a DB. Like in your circumstances where you are deleting 6 months (I think it was) of logs...

    --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)

  • RE: Another XML explicit problem

    kenksoftware (12/28/2015)


    we are not even sure if these fields are ever going to be used in the future and there are hundreds of them which is why I'm stuffing them...

    --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)

  • RE: Syntax help on how to create a rule

    kaza_rohan (12/28/2015)


    Check:

    Check limits the values that are accepted by one or more columns.

    The Below code accepts only values A or k or R or S, it will not accept other...

    --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)

  • RE: Send email from T-SQL

    Lowell (12/29/2015)


    Jeff Moden (12/28/2015)


    mw112009 (12/28/2015)


    (:-P I will run it and findout whether our server is configured correctly to send email)

    If it turns out to not be setup and no...

    --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)

  • RE: Send email from T-SQL

    simon-hulse (12/29/2015)


    1. you need to give permissions to the user that is attempting to send the mail. This is in the MSDB database, role "DatabaseMailUserRole"

    Gosh no. Unless you're talking...

    --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)

  • RE: Send email from T-SQL

    mw112009 (12/29/2015)


    Yes I need the trick

    Are you the DBA for the company?

    --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)

  • RE: Where Do Staging Tables Belong

    Also and not to be a contrarian to anything posted thus far... just explaining a different method... we don't do DR for staging databases and we don't even bother backing...

    --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)

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