Jeff Moden

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RE: Best Practices for Database Design

Ummm... you guys are getting awfully serious about this... you do realize that the article was written and first posted about 3 years ago, huh? 😉
--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)

June 22, 2008 at 8:59 am

#832370
RE: Condional Update/insert from one table to other.

Ok... thanks...
Does BitBucket's code do it for you or do you still need help with something?
--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)

June 22, 2008 at 8:56 am

#832369
RE: Rules, Defaults and the SQL Standard

Even though I don't like cursors and I don't use them, that would be the first thing to change... I'd have them stop deprecating stuff that works. That's part...
--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)

June 22, 2008 at 8:54 am

#832368
RE: use a sequence of column values in a query

JRJ (6/22/2008)
That's possible. How can I change a views definition in a proc? Also I am deeling with duplicate indexes, is that ok?
thanks
A view's definition can easily be changed 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)

June 22, 2008 at 8:48 am

#832367
RE: help with data type and default value

No, NO, NO!!! Never ever store formatted data! You will pay dearly for doing so someday in the future. This type of (leading zero) formatting should really...
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 9:08 pm

#832330
RE: Get data between specific week days

giontech (6/21/2008)
Hello:
I need help in how to get data from a table with a daterange from sunday to saturday of the last week.
What I'm looking for is to be able...
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 8:47 pm

#832329
RE: Generate 5 digit random numbers

Mani Singh (6/21/2008)
you can use this and manipulate this query to code as needed..
DECLARE @GENRANDOM nvarchar(9)
SET @GENRANDOM =LEFT(SUBSTRING (RTRIM(RAND()) + SUBSTRING(RTRIM(RAND()),3,11), 3,11),9)
--SELECT SUBSTRING(@GENRANDOM ,3,1)
SELECT @GENRANDOM as 'RANDOM_NUMBER'
Yep... you could do...
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 8:05 pm

#832327
RE: Generate 5 digit random numbers

Here's one way to do it in 2005... The neat thing is it doesn't use any RBAR or a sequence table. You could use UPDATE and OUTPUT to return...
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 8:00 pm

#832326
RE: Generate 5 digit random numbers

ola_blixten (6/17/2008)
Hey!
My case:
I want to generate 5 digit random numbers which should start with:
00001
00002
00003.....
and 2 digit for week so from 1-52
and 1 digit for year, from 0-9
And everyting should be...
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 7:05 pm

#832320
RE: Data File Autogrowths

Rebuilding the indexes after that might help... 🙂
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 6:44 pm

#832317
RE: use a sequence of column values in a query

During the repopulation of TableB in DTS, your users will wait.
Why does this have to be DTS? Why can't it be DTS executing a proc?
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 4:13 pm

#832306
RE: Condional Update/insert from one table to other.

If temp table contains ALL the final information that original table will have once you do all the inserts and updates to it, why not just "swap" tables?
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 4:07 pm

#832304
RE: Data File Autogrowths

Ugh... thousands of growths probably also mean thousands of fragments for the database and thousands of fragments for the underlying file. For the same reason that people use defrag...
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 3:29 pm

#832301
RE: Best Practices for Database Design

Heh... I'll agree that the author had a naming convention problem with choosing the title of the article... 😉
I've also found that a great many "personal preferences" can really gum...
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 2:56 pm

#832298
RE: eliminating duplicates

Heh... still, the best thing to do would be to give the person requesting that this be done without adding an IDENTITY column and without using an intermediate table a...
--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)

June 21, 2008 at 2:48 pm

#832294

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