Jeff Moden

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RE: The Missing Certification

dma-669038 (3/29/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (3/29/2010)
Jeff Moden (3/29/2010)
Lynn Pettis (3/29/2010)
We would be interested in hearing your suggestons to address those concerns. To be honest, I think we are trying to put together something...
--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 29, 2010 at 7:33 pm

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RE: The Missing Certification

dma-669038 (3/29/2010)
Somebody was asking about statistics on certs...this is from Greg Low's blog, about a year ago, the counts are across the world.
MCDBA SQL 2000 152086
MCTS SQL 2005...
--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 29, 2010 at 7:26 pm

#1141878
RE: The Missing Certification

Lynn Pettis (3/29/2010)
Would you also dropping the requirement that anyone seeking the MCJ not have to have an MCITP, as that was also a requirement suggested, iirc.
That's a really good...
--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 29, 2010 at 7:23 pm

#1141876
RE: The Missing Certification

Lynn Pettis (3/29/2010)
So, are you saying that we should all just forget degrees and certs? That the time and effort I put into earning my BS and MA degrees 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)

March 29, 2010 at 7:16 pm

#1141874
RE: The Missing Certification

CirquedeSQLeil (3/29/2010)
If they can hack their way to the top, why couldn't they put in the time to get a degree?
Heh... because they don't want to be like that PHD...
--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 29, 2010 at 7:07 pm

#1141871
RE: The Missing Certification

Lynn Pettis (3/29/2010)
We would be interested in hearing your suggestons to address those concerns. To be honest, I think we are trying to put together something that fits between MCITP...
--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 29, 2010 at 6:13 pm

#1141860
RE: The Missing Certification

dma-669038 (3/29/2010)
Well..my user group serves southern indiana and i dont see any reason why those folks will not qualify..and whether or not MS is going to run this certs itself...
--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 29, 2010 at 5:50 pm

#1141845
RE: The Missing Certification

dma-669038 (3/29/2010)
Jeff, part of the reason i have seen this happens is managers are only informed on the technologies they use..i mean how can you interview someone on a technology...
--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 29, 2010 at 5:48 pm

#1141841
RE: The Missing Certification

Michael Meierruth (3/29/2010)
Jeff Moden (3/29/2010)
Gift Peddie (3/28/2010)
The credential being academically discussed may cost Microsoft at least one hundred million dollars in sales because Buick employees may not qualify so is...
--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 29, 2010 at 5:30 pm

#1141836
RE: Reserved word as field name in Format file in bcp.

Ashwin M N (3/29/2010)
Thanks Bhuvnesh I got it
Got what? Two way street here... what "got it"? What was the fix?
--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 29, 2010 at 3:49 pm

#1141777
RE: Best way to transpose multiple rows onto 1 row?

What I want to know is why this particular denormalization of perfectly good data is required? 😉
--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 29, 2010 at 3:44 pm

#1141774
RE: Trigger to send an email when ever a table is updated

malachyrafferty (3/29/2010)
its ok, iv got it working !
thanks all for your help!
i must keep in mind what you say about multiple records tho!
Cool... can you post your final solution please?...
--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 29, 2010 at 3:26 pm

#1141762
RE: Need help adding boolean count

Duplicate post. Please post possible solutions at the following URL so they all get posted in the same place. Thanks.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic892222-23-1.aspx
--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 29, 2010 at 3:19 pm

#1141754
RE: T-SQL Coding Standards

sqlquery-101401 (3/29/2010)
Hi , i am trying to build out T-SQL standard for our team , it would be followed for all T-SQL we write SP,Trigger etc , can you please...
--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 29, 2010 at 3:17 pm

#1141751
RE: Split column values into multiple rows using sql

mlak (3/29/2010)
NA
Please see the following article...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/
--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 29, 2010 at 1:32 pm

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