Jeff Moden

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RE: SQL Server 2000

No, no... the TIMESTAMP datatype has absolutely NOTHING to do with a date or a time. Despite what Sam offered up, the best you'll get is some date and...
--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 5, 2008 at 12:41 pm

#785715
RE: conditional operator

Grant Fritchey (3/5/2008)
We use this approach for variable parameters that may or may not be supplied. It works very well. It's set based. It will take advantage of indexes. 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 5, 2008 at 12:26 pm

#785709
RE: Create Sort order on temp table using CTE

Ok... 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)

March 5, 2008 at 12:23 pm

#785705
RE: Performance issue for a query with order by clause in SQL 2005 SP2

Please post the actual query... there's no way the one you posted actually works.
--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 5, 2008 at 12:18 pm

#785704
RE: Need simple solution to keep track of altered queries in script?

It's certainly not automatic, but my first inclination is to ask...
1. You allow folks to change production stored procedures without DBA approval?
2. Are there no documentation standards? ...
--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 5, 2008 at 12:16 pm

#785703
RE: Bulk Insert: end of file marker and end of line

Ok... since you can't actually see Ascii 26 except maybe as a supurious square, how can you tell the end of file marker is being loaded?
--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 5, 2008 at 12:02 pm

#785697
RE: Converting rows into one column

Thanks TonyJ, It works but it doesn't work when u have this scenario
And, still, you haven't tried the solution that Ian posted which doesn't have that problem... 😉
--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 5, 2008 at 11:59 am

#785694
RE: Need some Logic Help on some row by row process

Ralph Curry (3/5/2008)
OK, the same technigue of packing aggregate into a string, but using a correlated subquery.
select
Widget,
DateValue
from (
select
...
--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 5, 2008 at 11:51 am

#785687
RE: Need some Logic Help on some row by row process

Heh... at least you tried. 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)

March 5, 2008 at 11:49 am

#785685
RE: Bulk Insert: end of file marker and end of line

The end of file marker is typically an ASCII 26 and SQL Server will not read it in. You don't have to prevent it from happening.
--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 5, 2008 at 11:46 am

#785682
RE: Summing upto a specific value

I could be wrong, but this sounds like a "running total" problem with an additional SELECT to find the 2 million mark... please see the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/61716/
--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 5, 2008 at 11:33 am

#785676
RE: How do I get rid of time in the date filed

There's usually some merit and some future need for knowing the times. I think it's a huge loss of data to update datetimes that have the time to 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)

March 5, 2008 at 11:20 am

#785670
RE: Reporting Services report run forever

Can't help on the Reporting Services thing...
... But that's a cool avatar ...
... and my favorite NRA "saying" is "When they outlaw guns, only outlaws will have them."
--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 5, 2008 at 11:16 am

#785668
RE: Running out of integer space ...

Still, going the negative number route will likely only buy an addition year of time according to what was forecast by the OP. (18 months total... 6 months for +,...
--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 5, 2008 at 11:12 am

#785663
RE: How to lay out SQL Code

Heh... even worse... all we really need now is for Joe Celko to jump in with his ISO standard mantra... 😀
--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 5, 2008 at 11:06 am

#785661

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