Jeff Moden

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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
RE: former int-column (year) to datetime

I'm with Michaeal... I'm not sure anyone would have entries for, say, 1754, or even 1901 and certainly not for the year 2100 or 2200. What I'm trying to...
--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 1:12 pm

#780372
RE: BCP Command out/queryout Issue.

No... if you don't specify the database or the server, it assumes the "default" database for the user (which has been nicely overcome by the 3 part naming convention) 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)

February 20, 2008 at 1:09 pm

#780369
RE: bcp help

I've never seen BCP do such a thing... what are you using to call the BCP with?
--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 12:46 pm

#780360
RE: BCP Command out/queryout Issue.

I don't know what it is... everything in the command you printed looks fine. I even tried it with substitution of colums, etc, and it works just fine on...
--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 12:42 pm

#780357
RE: bcp help

Huh... looks like you've done everything correctly... what are the clunky characters and are they always the same or not?
--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 12:05 pm

#780342
RE: Top 3 records

Susane, Matt is spot on... you won't find a faster way to do that especially in light of a million rows or so, in my humble opinion.
Undoubtedly, you will 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)

February 20, 2008 at 11:57 am

#780338
RE: former int-column (year) to datetime

Lynn is spot on.
Just to expose another conversion method that's all math and nothing character based...
[font="Courier New"]UPDATE MyTable SET xyz_new = SELECT DATEADD(yy,XYX-1900,0)[/font]
Sounds obvious, but make sure that step 2...
--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 11:33 am

#780331
RE: Output results to text file

It seems there's a bit of confusion here...
First, when you create the text file, do you want it done automatically as part of a stored procedure or do you...
--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 11:23 am

#780326
RE: how to compare two string variables

sqluser (2/20/2008)
try this one also ....
DECLARE @s1 varchar(16)
DECLARE @s2 varchar(16)
SET @s1 = '1232'
SET @s2 = 'tete,1232'
SELECT @s1,@s2
SELECT SUBSTRING(@s2,CHARINDEX(@s1,@s2,1),LEN(@s1))
---
Careful!!!! You must still include the delimiter wrapping or you will get...
--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 11:04 am

#780320
RE: Not sure of best way to select different status values

Adam Haines (2/20/2008)
The first thing we are doing is adding tags to all the values in the delimited string. E.g.
declare @filter varchar(25)
set @filter = 'test|test2'
DECLARE @x XML
SET @x =...
--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 7:43 am

#780200
RE: Not sure of best way to select different status values

Ok... I'm a bit new to 2k5... just installed it a couple of months ago and still coming up to speed on how some of the new features work.
Can someone...
--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 6:35 am

#780167

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