Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Display values from ntext defined field

Bruin wrote:
could you send a sample of that code?
Thx.
How many characters are in the column that you want to split? I ask because, since your column started off as NTEXT,...
--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)

November 11, 2022 at 8:45 pm

#4111797
Reply To: Display values from ntext defined field

Duplicate post deleted...

--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)

November 11, 2022 at 8:43 pm

#4111796
Reply To: Display values from ntext defined field

Bruin wrote:
Sample data in field:
PartNbr|#@|Machine|#@| ttxx23|#@|plc1|#@| ttxx24|#@|plc2
So it looks like PartNbr|#@|Machine| -- these are the fields Then | ttxx23| -- when it sees a space data starts
partnbr Machine ttxx23 ...
--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)

November 11, 2022 at 6:17 pm

#4111756
Reply To: First wednesday of February & August Every year

Des Norton has the right idea but it can be simplified a bit. You can replace the GETDATE() with a variable in the following, in case you want to turn...
--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)

November 11, 2022 at 5:24 pm

#4111733
Reply To: Display values from ntext defined field

Bruin wrote:
select cast(replace(cast(body as nvarchar(max)),'???','?') as ntext) from lookuptable2 where description like '???%'
I used this template and can see that it did indeed did do the replace, but how do...
--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)

November 11, 2022 at 4:23 pm

#4111697
Reply To: Display values from ntext defined field
frederico_fonseca wrote:
do not use the native string_split - slow and does not return the ordinal of the strings.
Funny thing there... I've never actually tested it for performance because I never...
- This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Jeff Moden. Reason: Added Wayne Sheffield's post
--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)
November 11, 2022 at 4:16 pm

#4111696
Reply To: Losing Skills Because of Automation

I've found that automation isn't the reason for decreased skills. Rather, I've found that automation is necessary because people simply don't have the skills and, apparently, have little interest 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)

November 11, 2022 at 4:01 pm

#4111692
Reply To: SSAS Tabular migration to GCP

squareoff wrote:
We are considering to replace SSAS Server/Tabular Cubes with a denormalized dataset (e.g. materialized view) in BigQuery.
Why? What "magic" do you folks expect to suddenly occur? Stop an think...
--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)

November 11, 2022 at 6:03 am

#4111264
Reply To: Losing Skills Because of Automation

I don't believe that automation is the cause of a lack of skills. I rather think it's the other way around... Automation has become necessary due to a lack 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)

November 11, 2022 at 5:54 am

#4111256
Reply To: Display values from ntext defined field
1. Read the NTEXT into an NVARCHAR(MAX).
2. Use a Tally table function to read each character. If it's not the letters A-Z or a-z or 0-9 or common symbols, then...
--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)
November 11, 2022 at 5:30 am

#4111255
Reply To: How to summarise values in hierarchies

Please see the following article to easily do exactly what you ask.
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/hierarchies-on-steroids-2-a-replacement-for-nested-sets-calculations-1

--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)

November 11, 2022 at 5:25 am

#4111254
Reply To: Non Clustered Index

IMHO, the best thing said on this thread is...
Grant Fritchey wrote:
Measuring performance before and after the addition of the index and an examination of your execution plans (which are not a...
--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)

November 11, 2022 at 4:20 am

#4111234
Reply To: SSMS csv export file is missing leading zeroes for Numeric data types

squareoff wrote:
Hi Jeff,
Without the leading zeroes (e.g. instead of 0.123 it would show in the .csv file .123), I could not load the file into BigQuery. Import function was giving...
--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)

November 9, 2022 at 9:52 pm

#4110725
Reply To: Remove certain unknown amounts of character from a string

Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:
Have a look at this thread
😎
That's a long thread. You might want to provide the post number for where we ended up on that thread.
--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)

November 9, 2022 at 6:41 pm

#4110668
Reply To: Remove certain unknown amounts of character from a string
If it will always be that you have a non-numeric first character and the rest are numeric, this will work very quickly...
```
 SELECT CONVERT(INT,SUBSTRING(yourstring,2,8000))
```
--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)
November 9, 2022 at 6:40 pm

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