Jeff Moden

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RE: to use break and continue

Guess I should be pretty happy then... apparently some of my articles inspire people to ask questions. 🙂
--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 4, 2008 at 4:01 pm

#785248
RE: INSERT INTO Statement Error

Ok, no... you have to use NEWID() to populate the column. It is NOT a self populating column. Then, you would check for an error... if no error,...
--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 4, 2008 at 3:41 pm

#785239
RE: How to lay out SQL Code

Heh... no,... I'll happily continue to be "wrong" on this one... 😉
--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 4, 2008 at 3:29 pm

#785237
RE: dbcc inputbuffer question

Adam Bean (3/4/2008)
haha! That's my view!!! I feel special ...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic457115-146-1.aspx
Dang, Adam... why don't you put your name on that bad boy! 😉
--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 4, 2008 at 3:06 pm

#785229
RE: small issue

Hmmm.... when it comes to plain ol' delimited text files such as CSV files, I sometimes think people make things way too difficult. You can easily get a listing...
--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 4, 2008 at 2:35 pm

#785220
RE: INSERT INTO Statement Error

Remove the semi-colon... change the double quotes to single quotes around 'James'.
--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 4, 2008 at 1:26 pm

#785189
RE: How to lay out SQL Code

paulhunter (3/4/2008)
So, by this logic every line begins a new sentence in english.
Heh... don't be warping my words, Paul... I said a new line never starts with 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)

March 4, 2008 at 1:10 pm

#785179
RE: Query too slow

Haritha Kodali (3/4/2008)
Here is the view that the query is retrieving from. The earlier script is from DDL of the table that this view is using
CREATE view "MAGICSSHD"."Incident" ...
--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 4, 2008 at 11:59 am

#785124
RE: Generate subtotal and grandtotal records

Heh... how well I know... been there and done that! The "R" in "CPR" stands for "REPLACE" and I frequently forget to do just 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)

March 4, 2008 at 11:37 am

#785104
RE: Query too slow

Please... take just a minute and at least add some carriage returns to your code...
--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 4, 2008 at 11:22 am

#785094
RE: How to lay out SQL Code

I found comma beginning much easier to work with when I need to test something, troubleshoot, etc.
How so? Commenting out lines using either style is exactly the same except...
--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 4, 2008 at 10:43 am

#785072
RE: Update Query?

Just another way of doing it... puts all the different "answers" to the case in groups...
UPDATE rm00101
SET userdef2 = (CASE
...
--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 4, 2008 at 10:28 am

#785064
RE: Recursive query with different where clauses - very slow

Covering index would contain both sets of columns. Clustered index would make inserts take a huge amount of time on this. Make it a non-clustered index.
--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 4, 2008 at 10:12 am

#785053
RE: Divide by zero error

Ummm... what did you do to fix it, please?
--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 4, 2008 at 10:04 am

#785046
RE: Timetable report

Lookup CROSS TAB in Books Online for starters...
--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 4, 2008 at 10:03 am

#785044

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