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RE: Solving the "Running Total" & "Ordinal Rank" Problems (Rewritten)
Dang it... you're right, Martin. Dyslexia due to lack of coffee must have kicked kicked in. My apologies. I'll check it out.
Or maybe it's the edit you...
--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
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RE: Is C# Better?
janchrister.nilsson (11/13/2009)
Now, to my real question:I've got a working mate, that indents T-SQL with one space. Seems very odd. Hard to read 3000-lines procs.
Tried to google for styles 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
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RE: Why would an identity clustered index get fragmented?
Hmmm... maybe you're not talking about that type of fragmentation. Even if the "A"s were scattered apart like that, if they were all in perfect order, the logical fragmentation...
--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
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RE: Why would an identity clustered index get fragmented?
Think of it this way.... you may have tables occupying extents like the following (each letter is a table)...
ABADADAAFFAJAKABAAADAB
If the table you're looking at is "A", then there's some fragmentation...
--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) -
RE: Why would an identity clustered index get fragmented?
Roust_m (11/13/2009)
Jeff Moden (11/12/2009)
There's no guarantee that you're inserting into contiguous extents or pages.If I am NOT using "set identity insert on", why this would happen?
It could be filling 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
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RE: How do I extract numbers from a text field?
What is the data type of the "field"? And, yes, it will make a difference.
Also, what is the maximum length of the data in the "field"? It could...
--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
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RE: Why would an identity clustered index get fragmented?
There's no guarantee that you're inserting into contiguous extents or pages.
--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) -
RE: Is C# Better?
Heh... I have an odd personal preference... I don't like languages that require semi-colons or line continuation characters. It seems that they should all be smarter than that. ...
--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) -
RE: Split a single Record into multiple lines
tony.pinto (11/12/2009)
Hi there,I am hoping someone here can help me with a problem I have ran into. Below is the data, bascially each record has upto 8 sets of item/qty/value....
--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
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RE: Exporting Data from SQL Server
Paul White (11/6/2009)
The natural tool for the job would seem to be SSIS. It's pretty easy too - I just created an SSIS package to export a table from...--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
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RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?
Florian Reischl (11/12/2009)
I completely confirm Jeff! Some random values are really important to ensure some fine tests.I prefer this method:
😀
:-D:-D:-D:-D
--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) -
RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?
Alvin Ramard (11/12/2009)
I wasn't being serious when I made a comment about an article.Jeff, Bob and I were out in the parking lot discussing what you just mentioned, about 45...
--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) -
RE: IF statement using a Date range
trudye10 (10/26/2009)
Sorry Jeff.I hope to one day be worthy of the title SSC Rookie
Heh... lot's of people make the same mistake. No worries.
--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) -
RE: Milestones
rizwan.inam (11/5/2009)
Like MS PROJECT Parent Activity Start and End Date depend on Child Activities Start and End Date.Can you be just a bit more descriptive? Are you saying that...
--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
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RE: Pivoting a one column table
Ok... I'm confused. I thought you said you weren't the one responsible for importing the data.
--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)
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