Jeff Moden

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RE: Uncomfortable situation at office

It really is 'he said, she said'
If you perceived it as "almost stalking", so will others... don't forget to protect your self.;)
--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)

May 14, 2008 at 11:28 am

#815439
RE: How to random dates

Well done John and Matt! Exactly correct on both parts!
Todd, here's the long answer... Funny thing... I'm actually writing a series of articles on the generation of constrained random...
--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)

May 14, 2008 at 11:09 am

#815414
RE: How to find gaps between date ranges

Michael,
They don't come right out with an example that I can easily find in BOL, but if you put a couple of bread-crumbs together, you come up with the following...
--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)

May 14, 2008 at 8:52 am

#815270
RE: The CLR

Renato Buda (5/14/2008)
Regexp Expressions
Compression of Blobs
Concatenate() aggregate function
All the above have proved useful.
**** The 8K limit is an urban myth!!! ****
see the following for a sample:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/blob_compress.aspx
What kind 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)

May 14, 2008 at 8:07 am

#815223
RE: String manipulation

Thanks, Sapna... :blush: Such a nice compliment is a great way to start the day. 🙂
--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)

May 14, 2008 at 8:01 am

#815212
RE: You are a T-SQL developer who needs to...

Me too... except I'd add one thing...
UPDATE Employee
SET SocialSecNumber = stuff(stuff(SocialSecNumber , 6, 0, '-'), 4, 0, '-');
WHERE SocialSecNumber NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%'
... just to be on the safe side.
--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)

May 13, 2008 at 11:13 pm

#814942
RE: How to random dates

One other thing... why do you want to scramble the dates in such a fashion?
--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)

May 13, 2008 at 11:06 pm

#814941
RE: Uncomfortable situation at office

"Disater Planning" comes in many forms... this is one of them. You need to make backups that the "IT Member" has no knowledge of and no access 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)

May 13, 2008 at 11:01 pm

#814940
RE: How to random dates

Million random date pairs in <30 seconds ok?
SELECT SomeDate AS StartDate,
SomeDate+1 AS EndDate
FROM (
...
--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)

May 13, 2008 at 10:41 pm

#814936
RE: What does FN mean?

Peter, any idea where I can get a list of these ODBC functions?
--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)

May 13, 2008 at 6:58 pm

#814908
RE: String manipulation

That's if you need a solution for both SQL Server 2000 and 2005... if it's just for 2005, it gets real easy...
SELECT CASE
...
--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)

May 13, 2008 at 6:45 pm

#814907
RE: How to random dates

Au4848 (5/13/2008)
I have start date and end date fields in database where I want to scramble the dates. How to create random dates for start date and end date should...
--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)

May 13, 2008 at 6:20 pm

#814900
RE: adding columns using derived column transformation

Simple case statement should work.
--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)

May 13, 2008 at 6:06 pm

#814891
RE: You are a T-SQL developer who needs to...

I'm sure they're looking for an answer on this one, but my answer would be "None of the above"...
1. All of the updates will cause some improper change...
--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)

May 13, 2008 at 6:03 pm

#814889
RE: PIVOT working incorrectly?

Good documentation and examples of the problem, Ryan!
--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)

May 13, 2008 at 4:58 pm

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