Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Entire Row to be Unique in the whole Table...

Understood.
--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 8, 2021 at 6:18 am

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Reply To: hierarchy related query

Do you have the next or previous month worth of test data that we can load to do some testing 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 8, 2021 at 6:16 am

#3927690
Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Michael L John wrote:
Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:
BTW: Jeff is of course our SSIS expert 😉
Define "Expert"
Expert at avoiding the use of SSIS. 😀

--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 8, 2021 at 6:02 am

#3927688
Reply To: Plan Cache refreshing every 24 hours

stevec883 wrote:
You have 14182 total plans in your cache, with 100.00% plans created in the past 24 hours, 98.00% created in the past 4 hours, and 98.00% created 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)

September 8, 2021 at 6:00 am

#3927687
Reply To: Plan Cache refreshing every 24 hours

stevec883 wrote:
That's an interesting point. Sp_BlitzCache told me a top priority was plans being built daily, but our server is not really taxed. I will check the indexes as well....
--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 8, 2021 at 5:49 am

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Reply To: hierarchy related query

You've been around long enough to know and have been advised before (April 2020) that you need to post some real DDL for such problems. Please read'n'heed the article at...
--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 7, 2021 at 3:20 pm

#3927541
Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Brandie Tarvin wrote:
And on a fun note, this site isn't loading for me in Edge either. It just serves up blank pages. Not sure what's going on with that either.
I just...
--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 7, 2021 at 3:13 pm

#3927540
Reply To: Entire Row to be Unique in the whole Table...

Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:
frederico_fonseca wrote:
depending on number of columns on that table you may need (and it may be advisable) to resort to have a hash column added and make this column...
--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 7, 2021 at 3:06 pm

#3927538
Reply To: Need Some HELP with a Query to help me validate other program.

J Livingston SQL wrote:
as a developer, I am sure you will appreciate my next question............any chance you can provide set up scripts for your tables and sample data, please...? (Not everyone 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)

September 7, 2021 at 5:57 am

#3927402
Reply To: Plan Cache refreshing every 24 hours

Any index that is rebuilt also rebuilds statistics which will cause recompiles for any stored procedures that use the indexes.
Also, you should stop using REORGANIZE. It doesn't work the way...
--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 7, 2021 at 5:52 am

#3927401
Reply To: How to Copy SPROC and Rename?

Just to bump this question again because it's a great question, I second this question!
--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 7, 2021 at 5:32 am

#3927398
Reply To: Database Compression Settings

I believe that I'd have to bring the newly constructed 4 banded pork chop launcher into play if anyone did such a thing because there ae a huge number of...
--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 7, 2021 at 5:14 am

#3927396
Reply To: High Report Export Volume

If a TSV (Tab Separated Values) file or a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file that can be used by Excel is "good enough", you don't need Crystal Reports or SSRS,...
--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 7, 2021 at 5:09 am

#3927395
Reply To: Entire Row to be Unique in the whole Table...

pietlinden wrote:
Create a unique index on all the columns and make that unique?
For 2014 and earlier, the limit for key columns in an index is 16 unless you have at...
--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 7, 2021 at 4:57 am

#3927391
Reply To: Speeding up Query

Step 1 would be to do kind of what you say. Capture the queries that use the table and the column. Then, look at them and remember that the OP'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)

September 7, 2021 at 4:33 am

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