Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Ed Wagner wrote:
Michael, have you seen the movie Idiocracy? If not, just look around. AI is just another way for it to come true.
I hear about how good that movie 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 10, 2023 at 12:35 am

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Reply To: Best way to combine records across databases

JuniperJun wrote:
I guess you mean selecting them with union all, that's even worse performance wise.
It does.
No... and no where did I come close to even inferring that. I mean 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)

February 10, 2023 at 12:31 am

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Reply To: Return a set of rows between 2 values (multiple times)

drew.allen wrote:
I don't have access to SQL 2022, but I would think that a windowed function would perform much better than the CROSS APPLY.
Really good point on using a Windowing...
--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 10, 2023 at 12:15 am

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Reply To: Best way to combine records across databases

If all the databases are on the same instance, why do you need to use a temporary table?
Also, does your temporary table actually have the correct indexes on it?

--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 9, 2023 at 9:02 pm

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Reply To: Return a set of rows between 2 values (multiple times)

DamianC wrote:
perfect, thanks
Yes, I'd defined VALUES incorrectly - typing rather than cut and paste
Just to be sure, are you all set now?
--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 9, 2023 at 8:08 pm

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Reply To: Return a set of rows between 2 values (multiple times)

Thom A wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
And thanks for the reminder that I should probably publish the testing I did for that.
In truth, I need to do my own testing on it 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)

February 9, 2023 at 3:37 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Nope... not missing those points at all. Those are the points that I'm actually afraid of because the folks that need to use it are going to believe its "correct"...
--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 9, 2023 at 3:25 pm

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Reply To: Return a set of rows between 2 values (multiple times)

Thom A wrote:
If that's the case, the OP could make use of GENERATE_SERIES as (based on your recent findings, Jeff), it's performant for a single series, which the OP seems 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 9, 2023 at 3:14 pm

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Reply To: Nesting Cursors

And, wow... Phil Carter. Were did you ever get off 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 9, 2023 at 3:06 pm

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Reply To: Update records using previous row and calculated value of current row.

Look into LAG.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/lag-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver16
You could also do a "rolling average" using AVG() OVER but it would likely be much more expensive to do it that way.

--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 9, 2023 at 3:03 pm

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Reply To: Nesting Cursors

Ok... since SPAM keeps necroing this 2 decade old thread and someone might read it and without knowing what the cursors are actually being used for, I'll just up and...
--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 9, 2023 at 3:00 pm

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Reply To: Return a set of rows between 2 values (multiple times)

Thom A wrote:
So where do these linked integers come from? Why, for example, is 1 linked to 1, 2, and 3, but the numbers 8 to 14 only linked to 8?
Apparently,...
--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 9, 2023 at 2:54 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Michael L John wrote:
SSC pulls thru again!
{snip}
Guess who whipped this baby into shape in about 2 days?
Someone who's an obvious and valued resident of the SSC Sanitorium in the DBA Disneyland...
--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 9, 2023 at 2:37 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Brandie Tarvin wrote:
Talking about ChatGPT, has anyone seen this one yet? https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/tech/google-ai-bard-demo-error/index.html
<headdesk>
Yes... and they're making an big deal about it. ChatGPT is constantly providing incorrect answers about code and people and...
--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 9, 2023 at 2:32 pm

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Reply To: how to make a col in a table after checking its existence, in one stmt

The time you're seeing in that image is the time it took to actually make the column change. Try making the actual column change with the INFORMATION_SCHEMA method and 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 9, 2023 at 2:12 pm

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