Jeff Moden

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Reply To: How to grant Exec ON multiple Stored Procedures

Ah... didn't see Mike post while I was typing. I also meant to say that once you're sure the code it produces is correct, change the PRINT @sql to EXEC...
--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 17, 2021 at 8:10 pm

#3930676
Reply To: How to grant Exec ON multiple Stored Procedures

As Grant suggests, the use of Dynamic SQL would be the ticket here. Use a pattern search (LIKE) on the names of stored procedures in the sys.procedures system view to...
--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 17, 2021 at 8:08 pm

#3930674
Reply To: Implicit conversion on hash key column is causes very slow insert

@frederico_fonseca ,
You should write a short article on the NULL/Empty String collision problem you pointed out to me. It's a great catch.

--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 17, 2021 at 2:18 am

#3930363
Reply To: Restore all Databases in a Directory

Just in case anyone is interested in this script, the latest upgrade to the software on this site broke the link in the first post and it will take 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)

September 16, 2021 at 10:47 pm

#3930329
Reply To: Rebuild index

Chitown wrote:
I have a table which is partitioned (Total 10). The table is 1.6 TB in size. Rebuild index on that is quite challenging, especially we have some resource constraints....
--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 16, 2021 at 10:30 pm

#3930328
Reply To: Parsing XML data

Just as a sidebar in personal frustration, XML never ceases to amaze me in its inefficiencies. The original XML in the original post occupies 244 characters. Even if you convert...
--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 16, 2021 at 10:24 pm

#3930327
Reply To: SQL StoredProcedure for data validation using REGEX in SSIS

I'll also state that RegEx is serious overkill for the type of validations you've described. You certainly don't need CLR, either. The example the ratback provided above will work quite...
--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 16, 2021 at 9:47 pm

#3930315
Reply To: Attach DB without FileTable folder

Thanks for the feedback, Mike. You're the second person I've heard of (I'm sure there are more that I haven't) that had the backups encrypted by ransomware. I think I...
--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 16, 2021 at 5:20 am

#3930028
Reply To: Trading in xp_cmdshell for SQLCLR (Part 1) - List Directory Contents

Thanks for the info, Solomon.
--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 16, 2021 at 5:13 am

#3930027
Reply To: Attach DB without FileTable folder

I don't know how to to what you ask but we backup all files when they're created and then again if they change. For us, there would be no problem...
--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 15, 2021 at 9:03 pm

#3929951
Reply To: Check if file GT 1k

Bruin wrote:
I'm checking the latest file created in a folder, and if it's GT than 1K ... I'm going to do further processing..
Is this a correct way to check that?
Thanks.
--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 15, 2021 at 8:58 pm

#3929947
Reply To: Recent changes table structure

coolchaitu wrote:

Hi Jeff,

Does the "modify_date" column gets modified when DML changes also occur, or only DDL changes?

You should do a search on sys.tables instead of taking my word for 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 15, 2021 at 5:32 pm

#3929909
Reply To: Good query plan gone bad - can I pinpoint a cause with no repro?

coryseaman wrote:

Sorry for the confusion, Jeff...that's partly why I wanted to include the graph of the plan performance but I didn't explain well. The "bad" plan I uploaded was 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)

September 15, 2021 at 5:27 pm

#3929895
Reply To: Recent changes table structure

coolchaitu wrote:

Good Morning How to find if there was any recent changes done to the table structure?

A quick way to check is to query against sys.tables in a database. Every...

--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 15, 2021 at 1:34 pm

#3929824
Reply To: Backup has stopped working

Seems crazy but it's gotten to the point for a whole lot of folks where they need a "conductor" for the "symphony of automation" they've constructed to make sure 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 15, 2021 at 1:18 pm

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