Jeff Moden

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RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Reviewing articles on this site would also mean reviewing the referenced articles from other sites. Then there're blogs and answers to posts. Where should the reviewing and censorship...
--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)

June 2, 2009 at 9:25 pm

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RE: The Sports Salary

Steve Jones - Editor (6/2/2009)
Jeff Moden (5/29/2009)
Nope... I don't want anyone to know how much more I make than them. 😉
Hey, if they saw your salary, along with your MVP,...
--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)

June 2, 2009 at 8:20 pm

#1003731
RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Dude... Lighten up. 😉
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 11:39 pm

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RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

I was simply speaking what I felt in my heart
Heh... me too, Lynn... me too. 😉
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 10:07 pm

#1003148
RE: No More SOX

wldhrs (6/1/2009)
Jeff Moden (5/31/2009)
"Its the Law"
A four word reason "It's the law".
I soooo dislike misuse of the apostrophe in possessive case, particularly of the verb "to be".
Probably 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)

June 1, 2009 at 8:54 pm

#1003134
RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

And, yeah... I'm glad your kid is OK and that some good folks pitched in. Just no more lectures about how good people are and how much they love...
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 8:44 pm

#1003132
RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Lynn Pettis (6/1/2009)
When we, as Americans, listen to the news we hear how much of the world seems to hate us. What we don't realize is that it isn't...
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 8:40 pm

#1003131
RE: Significance of Partitioning on Two Related Tables

Seems to me that unless you balance the partitions across separate spindles, the only benefit for performance more than what a proper clustered index with proper maintenance would be 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)

June 1, 2009 at 8:34 pm

#1003130
RE: Handling Null's in an End_Date Column

Cardinal say to Confusedcius 😛 one day, "To avoid pork chop, must look eye.... BIG EYE." SO! When come to fork in road, use fork on pork chop....
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 8:09 pm

#1003122
RE: Interview Questions.

Jack Corbett (6/1/2009)
Grant Fritchey (6/1/2009)
What are the steps you will take to improve performance of a poor performing query?
Buy my book! Kidding. There are several topics on this in 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)

June 1, 2009 at 1:17 pm

#1002988
RE: Interview Questions.

Florian Reischl (6/1/2009)
Jeff Moden (6/1/2009)
Did they, by any chance, ask you how you like your pork chops cooked?
Jeff and the meat...
LOL!
Heh... yeah... in this case, I'm thinking "fresh meat". 😛
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 1:16 pm

#1002987
RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Lynn Pettis (6/1/2009)
Grant Fritchey (6/1/2009)
Lynn Pettis (6/1/2009)
Great. I guess I can read them because their my articles, becuase I sure as heck didn't pay for a membership. Why...
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 11:55 am

#1002943
RE: Interview Questions.

Did they, by any chance, ask you how you like your pork chops cooked?
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 11:50 am

#1002939
RE: Last number from a Text Field

Ramesh (6/1/2009)
Jeff Moden (6/1/2009)
Bulk Insert. On a slow server, it'll load and do some data integrity checks while offloading "bad records" to a "rework file" on a 5.1 million...
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 11:41 am

#1002936
RE: Some Undocumented Stored Procedures

Heh... judging from the number of forums you have this same article posted on, I'd say you have some work cut out for you in making a correction. 😉
xp_DirTree actually...
--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)

June 1, 2009 at 9:35 am

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