Jeff Moden

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RE: The IT Employee Benchmark

James Stover (7/22/2008)
Accounting says: IT = cost center.
Shareholder says: maximize profits.
CIO says: freezing wages; outsourcing 1/2 the team.
And I'm supposed to be enthusiastic about this?
When it comes to losing good...
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 7:37 am

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RE: Return the most frequent value

Chris Morris (7/22/2008)
Top work, Jeff! It looks so much nicer in SQL2k5.
Top work yourself, Chris... it was a real bugger to pull off using 2k code, but you did it!...
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 7:30 am

#846399
RE: Return the most frequent value

Chris Morris (7/22/2008)
I think this works but gosh it's pretty horrible...
It would take another aggregated SELECT to bring in MAX or MIN DM_Source_Id.
Of course this is a SQL2k5 forum section...
Thank...
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 7:17 am

#846390
RE: SELECTing a sample

Perfect and good idea. Thanks for sharing the background of this problem. 🙂
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 6:30 am

#846354
RE: Pls help to solve this query

Now that's an interesting use... I normally just use an inner tube sling shot with a foot wide maw on it.
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 6:22 am

#846344
RE: UDF execution through a CLR

Thanks for the feedback.
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 6:20 am

#846342
RE: Handling Tempdb space full situtation?

We also need to know what you think "full" is... how many bytes is your TempDB?
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 6:18 am

#846339
RE: Given an employee table( with columns Emp_ID,Emp_Name,Emp_Salary), how would you find out the fifth highest salary?

Dang... you're right Lynn... I was blazing through a bunch of these and didn't read all the posts. My appologies. Thanks for the feedback.
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 6:15 am

#846333
RE: Soft Skills

Matt Miller (7/21/2008)
Jeff Moden (7/21/2008)
I'm walking into a new job similar to that on Monday...
I keep trying to look at the bright side. The ETL is process some 10,000...
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 6:12 am

#846331
RE: Return the most frequent value

Christopher Stobbs (7/22/2008)
HI Jeff,
I think he doesn't mind which is returned if they are all different.
I added an extra ordering to my rank query so that the first is returned...
--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)

July 22, 2008 at 5:52 am

#846312
RE: Pls help to solve this query

Grant Fritchey (1/30/2008)
Please don't cross-post. Especially don't post things in the 2008 forums that has no relation to 2008.
Heh... well that worked well... wanna borrow some porkchops? 😛
--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)

July 21, 2008 at 8:25 pm

#846118
RE: UDF execution through a CLR

Muhammad Furqan (7/21/2008)
Sorry guys!
that was my fault.
i didnt troubleshoot it well and finally figured out that it was not the UDF causing problem, it was something else.
Thanks again!
What was 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)

July 21, 2008 at 8:22 pm

#846116
RE: Dumb Question

Awesome articles, Gus... dunno how I missed the second one, but I just read it. Really nice job.
My only suggestion to everyone is to NOT audit inserts. 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)

July 21, 2008 at 8:15 pm

#846115
RE: Audit Trails and Logging Part II

Somehow, I missed this article before. Awesome job, Gus. Huge amount of good info and some great technique comparisons!
--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)

July 21, 2008 at 8:10 pm

#846114
RE: SELECTing a sample

Also, I gotta know because this is not a run of the mill request... I've only seen one other time when this was needed... a customer could have two identical...
--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)

July 21, 2008 at 7:42 pm

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