Jeff Moden

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RE: Totals to date

Myschif,
Adam and the other folks are too kind with their words about my articles. The articles do, however, explain some major pitfalls with the performance of some of 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)

February 21, 2008 at 4:11 pm

#780898
RE: Totals to date

I saw you in the post, Adam... I knew you would do as good as I could. And, thanks for the plug!
--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)

February 21, 2008 at 4:02 pm

#780892
RE: BCP Command out/queryout Issue.

Shiv (2/21/2008)
Ok,
I have given that direction as parameter bcos i want use it like a condition there. That's not problem I can just keep 'queryout' there directly instead of direction...
--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)

February 21, 2008 at 11:52 am

#780812
RE: BCP Command out/queryout Issue.

Matt Miller (2/21/2008)
Again - being tentative here. My understanding is that "out" is only to be used when the first argument is a view or table. Anything T-SQL...
--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)

February 21, 2008 at 11:50 am

#780811
RE: Output results to text file

Heh... sure you did... you learned that there's more than one way and that one of the ways will be easy. 😀
--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)

February 21, 2008 at 5:24 am

#780597
RE: All holidays in a year

I understand... if "every code change can be acceptable", then consider implementing that which is found at the following URL:
http://sqlserver2000.databases.aspfaq.com/why-should-i-consider-using-an-auxiliary-calendar-table.html
--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)

February 21, 2008 at 5:12 am

#780593
RE: Bulk insert with defualt values

What is the exact wording of the 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)

February 21, 2008 at 4:22 am

#780573
RE: CLR and UDF

Yeah... it's a simple "Name/Value" table that can easily resolved using various high performance methods (none of which require a CLR) including simple cross-tabs. What kind of an 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)

February 21, 2008 at 4:20 am

#780572
RE: Lots of keywords to match!

Simong,
Here's a simple "splitter" to normalize the CSV entries you have so you do a join instead of a "LIKE"...
--===== Create a table to hold user ids and a word...
--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)

February 20, 2008 at 4:38 pm

#780454
RE: Lots of keywords to match!

tbeadle (2/20/2008)
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There are word token subroutines available to help with loading the single field table.The comparison of the two table entries would be fairly simple at that point.[/font]
Good thoughts, Terry......
--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)

February 20, 2008 at 4:12 pm

#780448
RE: Consolidating dates from multiple rows

Either way, looks like a correlated sub-query is going to be involved which is why Matt suspects the performance is going to suck a bit...
Here's another way (output could be...
--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)

February 20, 2008 at 3:42 pm

#780440
RE: Consolidating dates from multiple rows

Ya gotta make one...
--===== Create and populate the Tally table on the fly
SELECT TOP 11000 --equates to more than 30 years of dates
...
--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)

February 20, 2008 at 3:09 pm

#780424
RE: former int-column (year) to datetime

Nicely done, Lynn!
--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)

February 20, 2008 at 3:05 pm

#780422
RE: bcp help

Matt Miller (2/20/2008)
Would this have anything to do with using Native format (as opposed to character format?)
Man, I can't wait to get off this cold medication... I totally missed 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)

February 20, 2008 at 2:49 pm

#780413
RE: What else do I need to get my 2005 instance down ?

Dang... I was loading up the double-barreled pork-chop sling-shot. 😉
--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)

February 20, 2008 at 1:25 pm

#780377

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