Jeff Moden

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RE: Index Tuning

Ananth,
Books Online (comes free with SQL Server) also has a wealth of knowledge on how indexes work and how to build 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)

January 5, 2008 at 9:42 am

#765090
RE: stored proc

Heh... ten to one says monthly, weekly, or even daily transaction databases... folks do that a lot especially in the telephone business (Call detail records saved in monthly databases based...
--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)

January 5, 2008 at 9:34 am

#765089
RE: Slow Query and High IO

It would appear from things like "[Expr1002]=Convert([pt3].[STORE_KEY]) " found in the execution plan that 1 or 2 things may really be causing the performance problems...
The first thing is that 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)

January 5, 2008 at 9:27 am

#765088
RE: Stored Procedure

For the distance formula, please see your other post at the following URL...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic439224-338-1.aspx
... that should get you started...
--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)

January 5, 2008 at 9:10 am

#765087
RE: Running update Stored Procedure from VBS

Phil,
Nothing attached and no code visible... dunno if that was your intent, 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)

January 5, 2008 at 9:07 am

#765086
RE: Naming Conventions Help

The only problem I see in such a naming convention is if you have a usefull function, proc, table, or view that is used in one schema that you'd like...
--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)

January 5, 2008 at 9:04 am

#765085
RE: Mathematical T-SQL

p.s. IF, by chance, you are using the V&H coordinates (as Telcordia calls them) from the "Donald Projection" that is used so often for calculating distance for telephony, airlines,...
--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)

January 5, 2008 at 8:54 am

#765081
RE: Mathematical T-SQL

SQRT and SQUARE are standard mathematical functions in pretty much every make and flavor of SQL including SQL Server.
Your values of the coordinates of x1, x2, y1, and y2 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)

January 5, 2008 at 8:43 am

#765079
RE: How To Get Inheritence Like Functionality from Stored Procedures

You might also be able to use something like OPENDATASOURCE...
--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)

January 4, 2008 at 10:18 pm

#765051
RE: How To Get Inheritence Like Functionality from Stored Procedures

I'm thinking that if inheritance did exist in SQL Server, it would create a "work" table in TempDB, anyway... what's so terrible about using INSERT/EXEC to populate a temp table...
--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)

January 4, 2008 at 10:16 pm

#765050
RE: user stored proc parameter finder

I'd start a new thread with a new subject... will probably get more attention that way...
--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)

January 4, 2008 at 10:06 pm

#765048
RE: Creating a Phone Book / Horse Blanket type thing...

Probably easiest to write a pass-through query (maybe to a view) in Excel and print from Excel.
--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)

January 4, 2008 at 10:05 pm

#765047
RE: user stored proc parameter finder

Ok, thanks for the feedback... does that mean that you're all set?
--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)

January 4, 2008 at 9:58 pm

#765045
RE: How to Subtract timespan from datetime

Assuming that "TimeElapsed" is of the DateTime datatype...
SELECT currDt = GETDATE()-TimeElapsed
--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)

January 4, 2008 at 9:46 pm

#765043
RE: How can i export data in execel file in predefined excel format...

3 pages starting at...
http://www.sql-server-helper.com/tips/read-import-excel-file-p01.aspx
--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)

January 4, 2008 at 9:37 pm

#765041

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