Jeff Moden

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RE: SELECT * versus SELECT 1 when using EXISTS

Garadin (9/12/2009)
I think he was just advocating testing things yourself and not always taking other people's word for it, not taking a side on this issue in particular. IIRC, 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)

September 12, 2009 at 1:24 pm

#1052732
RE: CPU utilization going 100% while running a select query.

Just the one index is 17GB??? How many rows do you have in the two different databases for the table(s) in question for this query?
--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)

September 12, 2009 at 1:18 pm

#1052731
RE: File purge maintenance plan

igloo21 (9/12/2009)
That's because Oct 31st falls on a Saturday 🙂
The all the file types are prefixed as cur*.txt
The calendar table already exists as dbo.tblAcctPeriod
Thanks!
Thanks, but not of that really tells...
--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)

September 12, 2009 at 1:16 pm

#1052730
RE: Question on SP

Heh... well THAT's interesting. Sup's post didn't appear when I replied. Sorry for any confusion folks. Guess I'm just confirming what Sup posted.
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:56 pm

#1052654
RE: Question on SP

shuzi (9/11/2009)
I have a function created as GetEvDate,
then call SP test
exec test 'xxxx', GetEvdate('xxx')
but got error, how to fix this? thanks a lot
The problem with your code is 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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:53 pm

#1052653
RE: Referncing "as" named columns (?) in a selects where clause

razmage (9/11/2009)
Perfect. That answered my question. I wish it would allow the use of the alias in the where clause though but oh well 🙂 Thanks much!
Agh... I wouldn't create...
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:49 pm

#1052651
RE: Undocumented Extended Stored Procedures

Most of those are pretty useless from SQL Server except for xp_RegRead and xp_DirTree. xp_RegWrite is usefull once in a lifetime. Explanations of what others have found are...
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:46 pm

#1052649
RE: possible to do in a case statement?

Agh... sorry... Paul beat me to it. I didn't read the whole thread before I posted.
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:40 pm

#1052646
RE: possible to do in a case statement?

Garadin (9/11/2009)
1. You appear to be using a table variable to do your running totals. You don't want to do this, because you can't establish a clustered index...
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:36 pm

#1052645
RE: How to call DLL functions from SSIS

sleepycasper (9/11/2009)
Hi all,
We are using SSIS and would like to call some functions from DLL.
Someone had mentioned like late binding and com intrepret.
Any ideas?
Thanks and regards.
I can't help with...
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:27 pm

#1052643
RE: SQL JOINS

I'm always fascinated by interviewers that think something needs to be done in a single SQL statement and I'm just as fascinated by interviewers that think you should generate such...
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:18 pm

#1052640
RE: Help specifying a date range based on a start date

paul.ette (9/11/2009)
01/10/2006 - 30/09/2007 = 2006-07
01/10/2007 - 30/09/2008 = 2007-08
01/10/2008 - 30/09/2009 = 2008-09
All a view will do in this case is slow things down 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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:07 pm

#1052637
RE: File purge maintenance plan

It's also interesting to note that the accounting/calendar table doesn't include October 31st anywhere... at least not as you have posted it.
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 9:01 pm

#1052635
RE: File purge maintenance plan

Please post 4 different file names that you wish to process. I also need you to post the CREATE TABLE statement for your calendar table.
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 8:56 pm

#1052634
RE: File purge maintenance plan

Sorry... duplicated my post. Please see below.
--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)

September 11, 2009 at 8:55 pm

#1052633

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