Jeff Moden

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RE: How to be notified when a insert/update happens?

Gianluca Sartori (8/5/2009)
Two possibilities come to my mind:
1) You could send a mail to all users from a trigger.
2) Insert the rows into a message table from a trigger 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)

August 5, 2009 at 11:35 pm

#1035187
RE: The query output should be

AND you posted this on both the 2k and 2k5 forum! You know better than to double post! All it does is tick people off. Stop 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)

August 5, 2009 at 11:29 pm

#1035185
RE: Query output should be

Duplicate post... no responses here please. Goto http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic765935-8-1.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)

August 5, 2009 at 11:26 pm

#1035184
RE: The query output should be

Duplicate post... no responses here please. Goto http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic765935-8-1.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)

August 5, 2009 at 11:24 pm

#1035183
RE: The query output should be

Duplicate post... no responses here please. Goto http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic765935-8-1.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)

August 5, 2009 at 11:21 pm

#1035182
RE: Running Totals??

Gianluca Sartori (8/5/2009)
In SQL2008 you can use the new ISO syntax to perform rollups, as old WITH ROLLUP syntax will be removed in future versions:
select
nameofmarket as "market",
sum(sales) 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)

August 5, 2009 at 11:05 pm

#1035181
RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

He's mine, please... all mine... pork chops in progress. I don't want to start a dog pile on him, but he's mine.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic765935-8-1.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)

August 5, 2009 at 11:01 pm

#1035180
RE: The query output should be

AND you've been around long enough to know how to post data to get help. If not, please reread the article at the first link in my signature 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)

August 5, 2009 at 10:50 pm

#1035178
RE: checksums and unicode data

...and the checksum algorithm is nothing more than a simple "Exclusive OR" at the byte level. It does NOT quarantee that two rows are different and it doesn't guarantee...
--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)

August 5, 2009 at 10:46 pm

#1035175
RE: The query output should be

Heh... get busy Karthik... you know how to use a Tally table with an outer join. 😉
--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)

August 5, 2009 at 10:39 pm

#1035172
RE: Primary Key- char 12

Ian Scarlett (8/5/2009)
Jeff Moden (8/5/2009)I do wish that MS would come out with type inheritance in the definition of parameters and variables.
Isn't that what UDTs go some way to providing,...
--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)

August 5, 2009 at 9:33 pm

#1035164
RE: Date Range within a Date Range

Ok... here's the code that actually does the split by month segment instead of by day. The reason this had to be done is that the 11 row example...
--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)

August 5, 2009 at 9:26 pm

#1035161
RE: Date Range within a Date Range

aktikt (8/5/2009)
Jeff, thanks for your patronizing complements... Just kidding.
By the way Aktikt, just to be clear... I never patronize... it's either praise or pork chops. No in between....
--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)

August 5, 2009 at 8:09 pm

#1035157
RE: Gain Space Using XML data type

As a side bar... There is a rumor (and I STRESS the word RUMOR!) I heard and I can't confirm it or deny it. The rumor says that when...
--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)

August 5, 2009 at 7:53 pm

#1035155
RE: WORD UP!

RBarryYoung (8/5/2009)
Dang, someone told me last year what causes that and I can't remember ... 🙁
Heh... obviously you can't remember who that someone is either. 😛 If 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
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

August 5, 2009 at 7:35 pm

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