Jeff Moden

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RE: Find Last Day of Month

This is what I mean...
(No character based date conversions) + (No concatenation) = Very high speed short code.
--===== Here are the two parameters you wanted
DECLARE @DateStart DATETIME
DECLARE @DateEnd ...
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 7:00 pm

#808735
RE: Working with strings

Ah, ok... it get it.
Still need to know though, what do you want for column names? I'm also pretty sure you'll need the row number... I guess I'm...
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:44 pm

#808732
RE: Create a Tally or Numbers Table

Heh... that's funny... hadn't thought of it that way, AnirBan. 😀
I actually have an article coming out in the very near future as to "how and why" Tally tables 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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:40 pm

#808731
RE: How to update, in a table, all the columns with a name that begins with the same string (same value for all)

Perfect. Thanks for the feedback.
Adrian... nice job!
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:35 pm

#808730
RE: Indexes & tuning

Yes...
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:32 pm

#808728
RE: Linking to the Previous Row

Lisa... Thanks for the feedback a couple of posts back. 🙂
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:30 pm

#808727
RE: DELETE DUPLICATE RECORDS

SQL ORACLE (4/29/2008)
You cannot delete duplicates directly from a table unless you would like to delete rows, which are duplicated.
Any bets? 😉
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:20 pm

#808725
RE: Identity Columns

I think this one taught a bunch of people different things... 🙂
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:17 pm

#808722
RE: IT salary is going down !

IT salaries are going down for some as Steve mentioned... and for the reasons he mentioned. I'd like to remind all of you managers out there, you get what...
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:16 pm

#808721
RE: Is there a way to easily calculate the number of years between two dates.

Thanks for the feedback... like Gus said, though... leap years can wreak a bit of havoc if they're important.
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:10 pm

#808718
RE: Ordereing an IP address

hb21l6 (4/29/2008)
thanks for the replys guys.
this is the solution i came up with in the end, some borrorwed some new.
SELECT * tbl_locations
WHERE CompanyName = 'someCompanyName'
ORDER BY CONVERT(int, REPLACE(CONVERT(nvarchar, SUBSTRING(IP,...
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 6:04 pm

#808717
RE: Restrict DBO user

Would you rather have a slightly more complicated database maintenance program or an impossible security situation? 😉
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 5:48 pm

#808715
RE: Date Addition

Thanks for the plug, Gus... the article may be found at the following URL...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/61716/
... and Gus is right... it's nasty fast.
--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)

April 29, 2008 at 5:45 pm

#808714
RE: User Defined Function - Passing and Processing a Table

Can't do a whole lot for you if you don't post the "simple structure" of the data you're talking about... please click on, read, and provide the information from 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)

April 29, 2008 at 9:04 am

#808443
RE: Find Last Day of Month

In the meantime, please try to figure out what dateformat you'd like for startdate and enddate... I recommend not using one at 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)

April 29, 2008 at 8:58 am

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