Jeff Moden

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Reply To: YTD Date calculation

Heh... Yeah... understood there. I have the same feeling about FORMAT except that FORMAT is actually a performance issue on top of everything else.
--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 18, 2021 at 1:11 pm

#3921270
Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Heads up, folks. Norton Life Lock lit up big time on the following breach. It looks pretty serious...
https://www.wired.com/story/t-mobile-hack-data-phishing/
--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 18, 2021 at 12:42 pm

#3921250
Reply To: Migrate On-prem DB
I've heard of so many such limits, missing features, and other problems having to do with Azure, I have to seriously wonder two things...
1. What the hell is Microsoft thinking?
--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 18, 2021 at 12:24 pm

#3921240
Reply To: Create a delta from downloaded info

ScottPletcher wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Invoice line items can have a ship date
Only with a bad data model. Parts from the same invoice line could be shipped on different dates. 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 18, 2021 at 6:22 am

#3921154
Reply To: YTD Date calculation
ScottPletcher wrote:
I don't see the need for all that, this is much simpler:
```
SET @ytdfrDate = DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(@frdate) - 
    CASE WHEN MONTH(@frdate) < 4 THEN...
```
--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 18, 2021 at 6:03 am

#3921150
Reply To: Create a delta from downloaded info

ScottPletcher wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Bruin wrote:
With the same Line,subline?
Look at the PK you've chosen. IMHO, only the first 3 columns of InvoiceNbr, Line, and SubLine should make up the PK.
I'm more confused...
--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 18, 2021 at 4:53 am

#3921131
Reply To: Performance tuning

sqlfriend wrote:
unfortunately it is not something simple that T-SQL can handle. There are complicated logic to calculate stop corners according to time and direction of the bus etc, that 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)

August 18, 2021 at 4:48 am

#3921128
Reply To: Performance tuning

sqlfriend wrote:
SSIS only has one execute task that calls the web service. I run today, there are 2000 routes to process, it runs about 8 hours on dev, and 10...
--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 18, 2021 at 12:03 am

#3921077
Reply To: YTD Date calculation
Ok... assuming the following requirements...
1. Given any DATETIME value, calculate the starting date of the Fiscal Year the value falls into.
2. The Fiscal year starts on the 1st of April.
In...
--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 17, 2021 at 11:28 pm

#3921067
Reply To: Suppress Backup Messages In Logs

RonMexico wrote:
Yes, 3226. My bad on the typo.
It is a third party backup which I've looked at their documentation to see if there is a setting to prevent writing 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)

August 17, 2021 at 9:11 pm

#3921021
Reply To: How to get the detailed record and summary value at the same time

892717952 wrote:
there are LineNo, itemNo and qty fields in one table, I want to the accumulative qty (totalQty) for each item and want to the totalqty shown as below picture,...
--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 17, 2021 at 9:02 pm

#3921015
Reply To: YTD Date calculation
Jeffrey Williams wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Phil Parkin wrote:
DECLARE @FRDate DATE = '20210228';
DECLARE @newFRDate DATE = DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(@FRDate) - 1, 4, 1);

SELECT @FRDate
,@newFRDate;
+1000
Would agree - except 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)
August 17, 2021 at 8:49 pm

#3921011
Reply To: Performance tuning

sqlfriend wrote:
however dev and test have exactly same databases and application
That never turns out to be the truth. At the very least, they live on different hardware, they have different...
--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 17, 2021 at 8:11 pm

#3920991
Reply To: Create a delta from downloaded info

Bruin wrote:
With the same Line,subline?
Look at the PK you've chosen. IMHO, only the first 3 columns of InvoiceNbr, Line, and SubLine should make up the PK.
--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 17, 2021 at 7:59 pm

#3920939
Reply To: Is that a reason DBA should Install SQL Server

The windows teams have a nasty habit of installing SQL Server on the "C:" drive. They have the same nasty habit for the page file, which really needs to have...
--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 17, 2021 at 7:52 pm

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