Jeff Moden

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RE: Common Table Expressions

To me, CTE's have the advantage of Derived Tables because you can reference them many times in the same query at different levels in the query whereas a Derived table...
--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)

March 18, 2008 at 8:24 am

#790853
RE: Vardecimal

Gosh... ya gotta wonder, though... seems like the VarDecimal datatype option has a pretty limited application... you'd think they'd have spent more time on something important like getting SUM() 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)

March 18, 2008 at 8:08 am

#790840
RE: Replace non numeric characters in string

Sorry Gus... I actually didn't mean it that way (better)... I just meant it's different and you don't need the CTE if you don't want it. They both run...
--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)

March 18, 2008 at 8:03 am

#790837
RE: Vardecimal

Matt Miller (3/18/2008)
Wow - I didn't even read the question correctly. Thanks Jeff for the wake-up there (pinging the caffeine IV).
I just came across this -
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2006/11/10/19546.aspx
It does seem...
--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)

March 18, 2008 at 7:48 am

#790823
RE: Vardecimal

Heh... well I'll be... I found it...
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326653.aspx
... learn something new every 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)

March 18, 2008 at 7:38 am

#790811
RE: Vardecimal

VARDECIMAL OPTION? Where did you find that? I can't even find it in Books Online... Is it a database setting or ???
--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)

March 18, 2008 at 7:35 am

#790806
RE: performance issue with the usage of default constraint

Sounds like another "Sr. Project".
--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)

March 18, 2008 at 6:48 am

#790769
RE: Common Table Expressions

Doing my morning article "skimming" and saw this one. In the "Conclusion" it's stated "This way I avoid using a GROUP BY "... and the example right above 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)

March 18, 2008 at 6:41 am

#790767
RE: What are acceptable import date formats?

Which one of the many links posted is that? And why does he say not to use Bulk Insert/BCP anymore?
--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)

March 18, 2008 at 6:29 am

#790760
RE: Select date columns value which are older than 10 days from today?

Whatever... I just think this is wrong on so many levels.
--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)

March 18, 2008 at 6:22 am

#790758
RE: More RBAR and "Tuning" UPDATEs

rbarryyoung (3/15/2008)
Anyway, for those who may actually be interested in what parts of Transact-SQL are standard and what may not be, here is a good readable summary site (yes, I...
--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)

March 18, 2008 at 6:05 am

#790753
RE: More RBAR and "Tuning" UPDATEs

Anirban Paul (3/18/2008)
The article was good. I liked it even though it has some probs as pointed by some of my 'co-readers'. For me it started the base of RBAR.
Thanks...
--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)

March 18, 2008 at 5:38 am

#790745
RE: joins

FULL OUTER JOIN with null detectors on both 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)

March 17, 2008 at 6:29 pm

#790637
RE: SSN datatypes

Don't store formatting symbols in the database. The only thing they're good for is display... you'd have to strip them out of most file transfers and reporting and GUI...
--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)

March 17, 2008 at 6:27 pm

#790636
RE: Undocumented DBCC command for cache usage

Thanks for posting the solution, Virgil...
--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)

March 17, 2008 at 6:10 pm

#790633

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