Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Rounding problem (?) using DATEDIFF (minutes)

DaveBriCam wrote:
I have a query that is using DATEDIFF to calculate the number of minutes, of course as an integer, but I may need the extra precision of showing this...
--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 3, 2021 at 6:26 pm

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Reply To: sql server and when adding files and capping space

It's hard to tell.... are you looking for confirmation about your "assumption" or ???
--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 2, 2021 at 8:04 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Grant Fritchey wrote:
<sigh>
So I post a comment over at DBA Stack Exchange, because I know what I'm posting isn't an answer. I get dinged for it because it almost reads like...
--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 2, 2021 at 8:02 pm

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Reply To: private messages gone

Confirmed! Messages, Followers, and Following are all back! Thanks, Steve!
--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 2, 2021 at 6:41 pm

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Reply To: What other useful DBA reports do you suggest?

VoldemarG wrote:
What other useful DBA reports do you suggest? Maybe something we would run every month or so to check that our environment is configured/running optimally. We have these so...
--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 2, 2021 at 1:57 am

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Reply To: Speeding up Query

As a bit of a sidebar, the TOP thing may have been someones attempt to "set a row goal" to trick the optimizer into doing a better job. The thing...
--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 2, 2021 at 1:34 am

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Reply To: Reclaim disk space after truncate

kirti wrote:
Hello,
We have truncated a huge table (50+ million) rows in sql server which was created for testing purpose.
However the disk space is not released back.
Any pointers on how 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 1, 2021 at 10:53 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Shifting gears a bit and speaking of the community on this site, someone made a new addition to Wiktionary a month or so ago. I'm sure that most of 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 31, 2021 at 3:01 am

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

My comment was to Grant and was meant as a general comment. If you'd like to quantify it, go back to the testing that I did that was mostly ignored...
--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 31, 2021 at 2:58 am

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Reply To: Send private message to another site member

Thanks, Steve. I really appreciate it. Are there similar links for "followers" and "following"?

--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 31, 2021 at 2:41 am

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Reply To: Send private message to another site member

That's fantastic. How do we read old messages? I'm not seeing it anywhere in my profile. It's entirely possible that this ol' brain forgot something so I'll ask, do 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 30, 2021 at 9:32 pm

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Reply To: Performance degradation with a particular stored procedure

tarr94 wrote:
I have noticed that rebuilding indexes on a couple of the tables referenced in that query statement can improve performance temporarily.
That causes a recompile of anything that uses...
--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 30, 2021 at 4:57 pm

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Reply To: how can we use SQL server's log to trace user's operation?

Grant Fritchey wrote:
You can't really track user behavior through the logs. Without specialized tools, you can't view the information in the logs. That's really not what the logs are for. It's...
--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 30, 2021 at 4:49 pm

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Reply To: how can we use SQL server's log to trace user's operation?

892717952 wrote:
I set my sql server recovery mode as FULL,so all of the logs will be fully recorded. if so, how can I use the log to track if users'...
--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 30, 2021 at 4:46 pm

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Reply To: which operations will use more CPU resource?

892717952 wrote:
in SQL Server, which operations will use more CPU resource? it seems that compilation and recompilation will lead to high CPU workload. are there any other operation will cause...
--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 30, 2021 at 4:36 pm

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