Jeff Moden

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RE: Breaking Tables into numerous smaller tables

Please share what you did...
--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 7:03 pm

#765011
RE: Create clustered or non-clustered index on large table ( SQL Server 7 )

Both will take the same time because EM7 will run the same code as what you've typed behind the scenes...
--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 7:57 am

#764851
RE: Performance Tuning: Concatenation Functions and Some Tuning Myths

Yes, thank you for the feedback and I agree that a clustered index will, in fact, make the concatenation run much faster... except that most folks aren't going to dedicate...
--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 7:55 am

#764850
RE: Sending trigger output to text file

So...are you saying I can have a procedure do what this functions does?
Well, kind of... before SQL Server 2000, there was no such thing as user defined functions... people ended...
--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 7:16 am

#764823
RE: stored proc

Since there is no need for dynamic SQL in this case, just remove the quotes from the variable names... like this...
ALTER PROCEDURE spgetemp
@empname varchar(30),
@jdate datetime
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
insert into #t exec...
--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 7:11 am

#764819
RE: Select records between a date range

Heh... Mom always said, "Never run with scissors"... being in a hurry on code has the same effect on careers.
Anyway, glad you figured it out... and thank for the feedback.
--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 7:05 am

#764818
RE: Performance Tuning: Concatenation Functions and Some Tuning Myths

Awesome... thanks for the feedback, Derek!
--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 6:57 am

#764811
RE: Select records between a date range

Unless none of your dates have times on them, the original query and the replacement query are bad...
--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 12:34 am

#764688
RE: Select records between a date range

No...
--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 12:32 am

#764687
RE: Select records between a date range

You're missing the point... you will not get all of 01/04 using BETWEEN...
--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 12:22 am

#764685
RE: Performance Tuning: Concatenation Functions and Some Tuning Myths

Not sure why you're whackin' at me on this one, Gail... real fact of the matter is that 4 million internal rows were generated and they don't show on 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)

January 3, 2008 at 11:40 pm

#764679
RE: Select records between a date range

No... it's not perfect if you want to include the whole day of 01/04/2008...
--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 3, 2008 at 11:26 pm

#764673
RE: Performance Tuning: Concatenation Functions and Some Tuning Myths

No, they won't. At best an exec plan shows the number of rows that each operator accepted, processed and returned, but that's the number of rows in the result 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 3, 2008 at 11:24 pm

#764671
RE: Data Profiling Tool Suggestion

Heh... I use the Mil-spec Mark I Mod I Grey Matter Data Integrator... works everytime and any costs incurred can be simply resolved by a good night's sleep and maybe...
--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 3, 2008 at 10:07 pm

#764653
RE: Select records between a date range

It's because you're converting the dates to text... try this, instead...
SELECT * FROM [MyDateTable]
WHERE StartDate >= '02/01/2007'
AND StartDate < '01/05/2008'
Notice that the "<" is in relation to the NEXT...
--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 3, 2008 at 10:01 pm

#764651

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