Jeff Moden

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Reply To: What Do You Want to Learn?

Only 17 responses on Steve Rezhener's thread. I'm not sure that I'd consider that to be a viable source of information considering the previous and expected attendance for these types...
--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)

June 24, 2024 at 1:16 am

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Reply To: Add alarms to database when a query, stored procedure, SSIS package hangs

I don't believe such an alert exists. My recommendation would be to make an SQL Server Agent Job that checks for such things and schedule it to run on 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)

June 23, 2024 at 4:12 pm

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Reply To: should i make as many datafiles for temdb as many cpus i have

To be honest, I've found that most such contention is because of what is appropriately referred to as "crap code". 😉
I recommend that you figure out what's beating on TempDB...
--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)

June 23, 2024 at 4:05 pm

#4430879
Reply To: increase in database size

vsamantha35 wrote:
Post the CREATE TABLE statement for the table the index is a part of including the CREATE statements for the index(es) in quesiton. Then, post the results of 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)

June 23, 2024 at 1:13 am

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Reply To: indexes cleanup

vsamantha35 wrote:
I am attaching the index data collection file. See if you infer any useful information.
Ok then, this will be short.
The code says it ignores UNIQUE indexes. Your spreadsheet says...
--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)

June 23, 2024 at 1:07 am

#4430804
Reply To: increase in database size

vsamantha35 wrote:
Hi All,
We have a 2 TB disk to stored of the sql database files. db has 3 data files and 1 log file. log file is stored on 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)

June 20, 2024 at 4:06 pm

#4430068
Reply To: indexes cleanup
Hey there, Sam...
I took a look at your index spreadsheet. That's a good thing but it's missing some critical information...
1. Add an IsUnique column to identify if the index is...
--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)
June 20, 2024 at 3:36 pm

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Reply To: Have you seen this in the news today?

There is some original basis of truth in rumor and old wives tales. While you place no faith in Fox, it did make people at least look.
While your opinion 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)

June 18, 2024 at 4:46 pm

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Reply To: Is Perfect Software Attainable?

Ah... I found the word I was looking for...
Lookup the term "enshittification". It's a term that was coined by XXXXXXXXXX in 2022 and became the "word of the year" 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)

June 18, 2024 at 3:54 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Understood. Thanks for the feedback, Steve.
--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)

June 17, 2024 at 7:51 pm

#4429093
Reply To: Is Solution PIVOT?

As an important sidebar, I don't know why you need to do this but it's generally a really bad idea to denormalize data in such a fashion. Maybe post 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)

June 16, 2024 at 7:28 pm

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Reply To: Find Unused or Backup Tables

harriga.rabie-1008938 wrote:
Hi All ,
fitst you need to disable all maintenance plan , perhaps your rebound or organise process all table without considering fragmentation .
also tha sal server audit can...
--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)

June 16, 2024 at 6:40 pm

#4428846
Reply To: Upgrade to SQL2019 from 2012 Query is taking time, Need Query Optimization steps

Lowell wrote:
change the database compatibility to SQL2019 prior to the items below.
the optimizer is different between versions, so it's pretty standard to have to, at a minimum, rebuild statistics 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)

June 16, 2024 at 6:32 pm

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Reply To: Cabot connect to Prod1

Phil Parkin wrote:
What is 'Cabot'?
I second that question.
--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)

June 16, 2024 at 6:26 pm

#4428838
Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

@Grant Fritchey,
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--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)

June 13, 2024 at 2:03 pm

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