Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Do You Still Use CHAR?

skeleton567 wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Caruncles wrote:
CHAR has bitten me numerous times...
How so? Especially when it comes to single byte stuff that even you know will never change?
I'd' say it's time to stop...
--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 11, 2022 at 3:17 pm

#3981932
Reply To: Do You Still Use CHAR?

skeleton567 wrote:
Just got a good laugh at the end of this conversation. Saw the following line. Is this a limitation of a CHAR data element?
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--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 11, 2022 at 3:12 pm

#3981931
Reply To: Do You Still Use CHAR?

Caruncles wrote:
CHAR has bitten me numerous times...
How so? Especially when it comes to single byte stuff that even you know will never change?
--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 11, 2022 at 3:04 pm

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Reply To: Show only once repeated value in result a set

I almost always agree with Phil and Grant that this should be done at presentation time in whatever app is generating the final output.
But, then there's the human factors 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)

February 11, 2022 at 3:01 pm

#3981922
Reply To: Do You Still Use CHAR?

This conversation brings up an ancient pain of mine and that's the mantra of "Pre-optimization is the root of all evil" parable that Knuth first stated in one of his...
--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 11, 2022 at 2:34 pm

#3981915
Reply To: Do You Still Use CHAR?

David.Poole wrote:
BigQuery has a data type called STRING with no size specification.
In Snowflake all text columns are VARCHAR under the hood, including CHAR.
For pure column stores the method of encoding...
--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 11, 2022 at 2:01 pm

#3981909
Reply To: Do You Still Use CHAR?

Sure. I use CHAR. It's all a part of right-sizing data. Such right sizing does some incredible things, not the least of which is preventing the massive page splits 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 11, 2022 at 6:13 am

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
Maybe. I'd like to think that we prevent a posting here, so no one is notified, which should prevent there being two.
I have asked for data analysis of threads...
--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 11, 2022 at 3:54 am

#3981800
Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

frederico_fonseca wrote:
Grant Fritchey wrote:
Thom A wrote:
I feel like that list is proof that Grant and Jeff are the same person, as they have exactly the same amount of subscriptions.
No.
You've got that 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)

February 11, 2022 at 3:45 am

#3981797
Reply To: Requirements doc and interviewing development groups

Jason Wilks wrote:
Unfortunately some of the leaders are saying the dev and design groups are too busy to work much on providing documentation or to concern themselves with the structure 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)

February 11, 2022 at 3:34 am

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Reply To: group records by week

If you use a compressed backup of a single table database, you wouldn't have to worry about zipping anything and you wouldn't have to worry about doing it in "off...
--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 11, 2022 at 3:26 am

#3981792
Reply To: Stop job after specified run time

kuopaz wrote:
Thanks Grant. I presume there are sys tables for jobs and job activity. Not sure if I then do sp_stop_job or KILL process.
If you stop a job and the actual...
--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 11, 2022 at 3:18 am

#3981788
Reply To: group records by week

Another way of doing it is to create a small special purpose, single table database that you write the "export' data to as a real table. Then do a compressed...
--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 11, 2022 at 3:11 am

#3981786
Reply To: group records by week

p.s. And, the files will be smaller because INTs will actually only take 4 bytes and dates will only take a maximum of 8 and could be as little as...
--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 11, 2022 at 3:08 am

#3981785
Reply To: group records by week

With that thought in mind, I have to ask, why are you messing around with the likes of "CSV" files and PowerShell, etc? It's a simple thing to BCP 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)

February 11, 2022 at 3:03 am

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