Jeff Moden

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RE: How to update the Created Date on a table in SQL 2005 ?

Not sure what you're after... didn't you just use a single command?
--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 4, 2008 at 8:30 pm

#798752
RE: Stripping HTML for a Table Column

Um.... SQL Server 2000 doesn't have the full compliment of RegEx operators, so I'm pretty sure that won't 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 4, 2008 at 8:29 pm

#798751
RE: Stripping out double quotes (") in bulk insert

jastarling (4/4/2008)
OK, so if I'm understanding you correctly, the column headers need to match the delimiters as the data rows in the CSV file?
Based on that, I changed 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 4, 2008 at 4:55 pm

#798731
RE: What kind of DBA are you?

Guess I'm the oddity...
I say "S-Q-L" Server because my original SQL Mentor would smack me in the head if I said "SeQueL".
I also say "Column", not "Field".
I also say...
--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 4, 2008 at 4:12 pm

#798727
RE: Setting multiple values

I see that the not so uncommon thing has occurred... Matt beat me to 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)

April 4, 2008 at 7:08 am

#798405
RE: Setting multiple values

In the at the very top of the "left window" for each post (just above where you got my posting stats from), just click on my bolded name... new menu...
--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 4, 2008 at 7:05 am

#798403
RE: Using SQL CLR to execute web services

Matt Miller (4/4/2008)
ALZDBA (4/3/2008)
Matt Miller (4/3/2008)
...
By the way - the relevant reply seems to be on page 17....
(that was a dirty trick there, Johan!)
...
Dynamic paging ... :Whistling:
In my SSC-forum-profile...
--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 4, 2008 at 6:57 am

#798395
RE: Stripping out double quotes (") in bulk insert

I haven't checked the entire BCP format file, but the delimiters for the first 4 columns are good...
The problem is with the 3rd column of the HEADER (not 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 4, 2008 at 6:18 am

#798362
RE: Get the code from a System View

Great link... thanks, Gus!
--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 3, 2008 at 8:58 pm

#798192
RE: Setting multiple values

J (4/3/2008)
What I' was a little bit worried about is that the myTempSelectionList table would appear to become a hot spot and possibly a source of deadlocks unless you're very...
--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 3, 2008 at 8:55 pm

#798190
RE: Stripping out double quotes (") in bulk insert

You say it isn't working at all... do you get any kind of an error message?
--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 3, 2008 at 8:49 pm

#798189
RE: 'EXISTS' vs 'IN'

More on the above... try solving the running total problem in 3 or 4 different RDBMS engines... and still have some scalability and performance left over.
--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 3, 2008 at 8:19 am

#797844
RE: 'EXISTS' vs 'IN'

Portability? Have you ever tried to make 100% portable code and still have it actually do something more than return data to a GUI with simple SELECTs? Even...
--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 3, 2008 at 8:18 am

#797840
RE: I need to add the last day of the month to a result from a column containing only year and month

I agree... like I said, not sure why I even posted the implicit code... I don't trust defaults for the same reasons you don't.
--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 3, 2008 at 7:56 am

#797819
RE: I need to add the last day of the month to a result from a column containing only year and month

Very good point.
Actually, I'm not even sure why I posted the implicit conversion code... Implicit conversions constitute a "default" of sorts and I've seen MS change a couple of defaults...
--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 3, 2008 at 5:57 am

#797727

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