Jeff Moden

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RE: Help on Dups

salvysmith08 (9/24/2008)
...if you can show me how to dynamically add column GRP on every dynamic table then that would great.
Old gaming trick... when you can't move, change color... Temp Table...
--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 27, 2008 at 9:04 pm

#878123
RE: Use a database if exist

sivavardhan (9/26/2008)
Use the below script to find whether the database is there or not in a server
if exists
(select name from master..sysdatabases where name like '%abc%')
Begin
...
--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 27, 2008 at 8:11 pm

#878121
RE: Use a database if exist

vyas (9/24/2008)
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
IF EXISTS(select * FROM master..sysdatabases where [name] ='pubs')
begin
use pubs
...
--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 27, 2008 at 7:59 pm

#878120
RE: Formatting...date output

Stuff it...:P seriously... the STUFF solution that Chris Morris posted will do the trick just fine.
--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 27, 2008 at 7:49 pm

#878119
RE: Issue with stored procedure...

Heh... thanks for posting your solution. Sometimes the problem just boils down to "must look eye." 🙂
--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 27, 2008 at 7:47 pm

#878118
RE: RBAR update/inserts

Jack Corbett (9/25/2008)
Chris Harshman (9/25/2008)
I'm suprised that Jeff Moden hasn't jumped all over this. 😉
Based on some of Jeff's other posts, he is pretty busy with work right now,...
--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 27, 2008 at 7:42 pm

#878117
RE: parsing example

marius.draganescu (9/25/2008)
That is what I was suspecting, too... I guess I will have to do this in VB, process one line at a time.
Thanks you very much for your opinion!
Marius
Heh......
--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 27, 2008 at 7:18 pm

#878116
RE: rounding of decimals

skottikalapoodi (9/26/2008)
MY DATA TYPE IS DECIMAL ONLY.
ACTUALLY WHAT I WANT IS, I DON'T WANT IT TO BE ROUNDED
DECIMAL WHAT??? What is the actual datatype of the 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 27, 2008 at 7:14 pm

#878115
RE: generic stored proc/function to convert columns to concatenated rows

Heh... "Loop" and "Lose" are both 4 letter words beginning with "L". 😛 Please see the following article for how to perform concatenation and some of the pitfalls 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 27, 2008 at 7:10 pm

#878114
RE: Passing a list of integers to use in Stored Procedure

By the way... the methods shown in the articles are a bit faster than the XML methods and can also be used in SQL Server 2000. 😉
--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 27, 2008 at 7:05 pm

#878113
RE: Passing a list of integers to use in Stored Procedure

It's super simple to pass a single dimensional array to SQL Server as a comma delimited string and then to split it into a temp table or table variable using...
--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 27, 2008 at 7:04 pm

#878112
RE: SP_Cursor

Those sprocs are the ones that SQL Server runs behind the scenes for nearly every stored proc. The real problem is not those, but the query the query 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 27, 2008 at 6:58 pm

#878111
RE: MSSQL 2005 performance issue

Do you have any SQL Server Agent jobs that are failing? I've found that, depending on what they do, they can leave open connections that hold on to resources....
--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 27, 2008 at 6:51 pm

#878110
RE: Convert datetime to just time (only hour)

BWAAHAA! No need to do the Polka with Convert, folks! 😛 Read the original post!
I have one [font="Arial Black"]datetime [/font]column named Hours in SQL Server Table1...
Notes4we, I recommend...
--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 27, 2008 at 6:33 pm

#878109
RE: Database Size and Available Space

Just remember that TRUNCATE doesn't work in the presence of foreign keys. I believe they can be disabled rather than dropped, though.
--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 27, 2008 at 5:54 pm

#878107

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