Jeff Moden

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Reply To: I am submitting an article. How can I insert IMAGE (screenshot) between text?

The easiest way is to have whatever image you want in your clipboard. Then, move your cursor to where you want you image to be and do a single click...
--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 15, 2021 at 8:00 am

#3920034
Reply To: Create a delta from downloaded info

That's nice. Again, please read and heed the first link in my signature line below for how to present some readily consumable data so that one of us can write...
--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 15, 2021 at 6:37 am

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Reply To: Need counts of payment amounts per week grouped by week
wrote:
```
SELECT DATEADD(DAY, -DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, [Order Date]) % 7, [Order Date]) AS [Week of],
  COUNT(*) AS Count
FROM dbo.your_table_name
GROUP BY DATEADD(DAY, -DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, [Order Date]) % 7,...
```
--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 14, 2021 at 7:14 pm

#3919974
Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

skeleton567 wrote:
ZZartin wrote:
Steve Collins wrote:
Welp, it seems worthwhile mentioning reputation points in an online forum, i.e. Stack Overflow, are a good way to enhance your resume.
They're also a good way 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 14, 2021 at 7:09 pm

#3919973
Reply To: Create a delta from downloaded info

Not confusing for me. You have existing data and you have new data. He want's a way to compare the data that changed.
I do absolutely agree that he needs 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 14, 2021 at 7:02 pm

#3919972
Reply To: Create a delta from downloaded info

Bruin wrote:
small sample of data, and the output desired.
Row 2 is written as a delta to a new table since acctgrp and channel changed.
Output: Old:display yesterday's record New:display today's record
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)

August 14, 2021 at 1:12 am

#3919835
Reply To: Create a delta from downloaded info

Bruin wrote:
My table as a PK(unique) of:
[InvoiceNbr] ASC, [Line] ASC, [SubLine] ASC, [InvoiceDate] ASC, [ShipDate] ASC
The process that creates the file to load to SQL does a FULL refresh 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)

August 13, 2021 at 3:29 pm

#3919693
Reply To: Create a delta from downloaded info

Bruin wrote:
any examples of a compare script and output diff's?
Thanks.
There are many ways to display the "Diffs". Please provide and explicit example of what you'd like to see for your...
--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 13, 2021 at 1:40 pm

#3919635
Reply To: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

Sergiy wrote:
I'd prefer to split the file normally, with simple delimiter '|'.
After it's done we can manipulate the resulting data set to shuffle the items into proper slots, defined by...
--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 13, 2021 at 12:26 pm

#3919597
Reply To: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

I'm thinking the OP may have gotten an answer from somewhere else and so may no longer be interest in an answer from this thread and certainly not one where...
--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 13, 2021 at 4:06 am

#3919464
Reply To: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

tellery_frmt wrote:
Hi Jeff.
your tally table approach to parsing is the best i've seen. i have a real world problem; wondering if you have any thoughts.
i need to parse a large...
--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 13, 2021 at 3:18 am

#3919452
Reply To: Index frangmenting

schleep wrote:
Exceptionally busy next few days coming, but I did rebuild this morning, set a trace, and did check once to find 0.04% fragmentation - not the usual leap 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 11, 2021 at 5:24 pm

#3918879
Reply To: Need counts of payment amounts per week grouped by week

joewhite wrote:
Hello,
I have a code that suppose to give me weekly(summed) payments, but instead, it gives me random points, not (1*7, 2*7,...)
I suspect it maybe because it doesn't include 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 11, 2021 at 5:19 pm

#3918877
Reply To: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

tellery_frmt wrote:
Hi Jeff.
your tally table approach to parsing is the best i've seen. i have a real world problem; wondering if you have any thoughts.
i need to parse a large...
--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 11, 2021 at 5:10 pm

#3918874
Reply To: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

Steve Collins wrote:
There are some caveats to that should've been mentioned. The string is declared as NVARCHAR(MAX) because I don't know that that's not appropriate. The ordinal splitter is name '%8K_LEAD'...
--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 11, 2021 at 2:52 pm

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