Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Just a test here... did anyone get an email notification of this 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)

February 3, 2022 at 2:54 pm

#3980458
Reply To: Bulk Insert Failed

frederico_fonseca wrote:
you also can't have extra columns on the destination table
With the understanding that I've not read all the posts in this thread, you actually can. Then you can 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)

February 3, 2022 at 5:55 am

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Reply To: UNION ALL with CTE

jcelko212 32090 wrote:
The first obvious question is why do you think a current receipt is a totally different kind of data element from a historical receipt?
I guess you've never heard 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 3, 2022 at 5:49 am

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Reply To: Requesting ideas for articles that might be of interest here

Arun Yadav wrote:
Thanks Jeff and Grant for responding. I now have two articles waiting for Steve's approval.
Don’t know if those will make the cut. Let’s see.
As the old saying goes, "The...
--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 3, 2022 at 5:44 am

#3980335
Reply To: Bulk Insert Stored Procedure

water490 wrote:
ScottPletcher wrote:
SQL Server does not all "FROM @FILENAME", only "FROM 'data_file_name'". Google the syntax of the command.
You'll need to use dynamic SQL if you want to feed in 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 3, 2022 at 5:43 am

#3980334
Reply To: group records by week

jcelko212 32090 wrote:
There is no need to use the old DATETIME...
That's what so many people say but that's seriously wrong. Although DATETIME doesn't meet some of the ISO 8601 standards,...
--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 3, 2022 at 2:57 am

#3980301
Reply To: Azure SQL database viewing security

Heh... it's why I complain... "A happy sailor is a bitchin' sailor". 😀
--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 3, 2022 at 12:15 am

#3980280
Reply To: Azure SQL database viewing security

jontris wrote:
To my kind respondents, thank you once again, but I think you're much too understanding towards Microsoft. Personally I'm not impressed.
Heh... Being one that doesn't have such a understanding...
--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 2, 2022 at 11:46 pm

#3980277
Reply To: Duplicate Index

Johan Bijnens wrote:
DBATools.io has a nice function called Find-DbaDbDuplicateIndex (however it has IMHO aflaw and does not report IsUnique for an index, reporting duplicate indexes composed of the same column(s)...
--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 2, 2022 at 11:18 pm

#3980267
Reply To: How to run a different account using SQL Job to execute powershell script

WhiteLotus wrote:
I need to run powershell script which is located in other server, lets say server A .
I'm curious... what does the PowerShell script actually 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)

February 1, 2022 at 11:37 pm

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Reply To: Duplicate Index

DBA wrote:
Hello,
I found couple of indexes which looks like duplicate indexes. Before dropping any duplicate indexes...is there any additional checks that should be done. please advise.
Index A on Table 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 1, 2022 at 10:20 pm

#3979757
Reply To: Question about malformed ZIP codes

While I agree that IIF is "foreign" to SQL, it is VERY short for 2 part CASE statements. As you know, it does resolve to a CASE statement behind the...
--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)

January 31, 2022 at 6:27 pm

#3979295
Reply To: Restore autmomation
ScottPletcher wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
```
--...
      ALTER DATABASE [DBNameToRestoreHere] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE;
          ALTER DATABASE...
```
--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)
January 31, 2022 at 6:05 pm

#3979292
Reply To: Copying from SQLSMS grid, pasting in Excel, the word "NULL" is pasted!

Chris Hurlbut wrote:
I hate Excel...If your cutting and pasting into excel from SSMS, you could be losing leading zeros. Usually the only time I do this is exchanging results among my...
--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)

January 31, 2022 at 7:09 am

#3979059
Reply To: SELECTing into temp tables

Bad criteria. Empty source table. Some error that allowed the creation of the table but no data to transfer. There are a ton of reasons but can't tell because not...
--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)

January 31, 2022 at 6:58 am

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