Jeff Moden

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RE: Another Crappy Cursor

So, you're happy with the speed of a While loop? Might as well use a "fire hose" cursor if you're gonna do that.
--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 1, 2008 at 8:02 pm

#809891
RE: Copy data from a flat file to a temporary table

It only takes bulk admin privs... if your DBA won't allow you to have it, (s)he can give you privs to run a job that uses a proxy.
--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 1, 2008 at 7:59 pm

#809890
RE: Importing txt file with header using Bulk Insert

Actually... no... not using Bulk Insert or BCP... they both require the headers to have the same number of delimiters as the "body" of the file even when you tell...
--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 1, 2008 at 7:52 pm

#809887
RE: Select with wild card

You bet... 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)

May 1, 2008 at 7:40 pm

#809882
RE: Help grouping results in date ranges

Obviously, you'll need to group by something else other than the invoice number... can't you group by the customer number of something similar that spans invoices?
--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 1, 2008 at 7:38 pm

#809881
RE: Add a temp unique ID column to a view?

No way to do it in a view in SQL Server 2000 and actually have some performance left. How many rows are you talking about?
--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 1, 2008 at 7:35 pm

#809878
RE: Group by Date

Adding a computed column takes 0 ms and no extra disk space. If the column is precise and deterministic, adding an index to it will take about half an...
--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 1, 2008 at 7:29 pm

#809875
RE: Last time when did the SP run

What's wrong with using the Profiler?
--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 1, 2008 at 6:36 pm

#809869
RE: check the format is valid

Something "like" this should do it...
IF Column1 LIKE '[0-9][0-9]-[A-Z][A-Z]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
BEGIN
---your code here---
...
--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 1, 2008 at 6:34 pm

#809868
RE: Script task in SSIS

True NULLs frequently show up as "nothing" and you shouldn't change that. If you want to see the word 'NULL', then write a SELECT that changes null values 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 1, 2008 at 6:30 pm

#809866
RE: Select with wild card

Like this...
SELECT *
FROM (--==== Test data
SELECT '43161234' AS Value UNION ALL
...
--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 1, 2008 at 6:24 pm

#809865
RE: The T-SQL Quiz

dfalso (5/1/2008)
I know I'm very late to the game (wasn't reading this board last year, sorry). And first, let me say I had a good time reading through everyone's approach...
--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 1, 2008 at 5:40 pm

#809860
RE: Create a Tally or Numbers Table

Understood.
You guys go ahead and call it whatever you want...that's the beauty of programming. I named it after the 2nd definition of "Tally" found here...
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/tally
... which says...
2.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)

May 1, 2008 at 5:14 pm

#809857
RE: Stored Procedure - which is faster/better?

I love testing... got any test code you'd like to share? Paging is always one of those PITA's that people (not you) have a hard time getting their arms...
--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 1, 2008 at 1:13 pm

#809789
RE: Restrict DBO user

Same thing applies, Lynn... let the developers do what they want in Dev... keep them out of QA, UAT, and Prod.
--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 1, 2008 at 1:04 pm

#809782

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