Jeff Moden

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RE: Fun with datetime

DATETIME is really a FLOAT in the background (although it is a "fixed point float", if you can imagine that). DATETIME uses the same BINARY math as FLOAT.
--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)

November 23, 2007 at 4:47 am

#753597
RE: What is mean by Programming styles?

Sounds like some of the other "Senior Software Engineers" I've interviewed... and rejected :Whistling:
--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)

November 23, 2007 at 1:05 am

#753544
RE: How to create SQL Views to gather data from an ORACLE database?

Haven't tried it in a view before... you must either create a Linked Server or use OPENROWSET or 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)

November 22, 2007 at 9:37 pm

#753514
RE: Multi-statement Table_valued Function error

sp_ExecuteSQL is not an "extended stored procedure" or it would begin with "xp_". Neither is any form of dynamic SQL. I'm afraid that you're out of luck.
In fact,...
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 9:33 pm

#753513
RE: Manipulating a String

Sorry... missed the "MonetaryValue" column that you included in your code but not in your problem definition... this will do it...
SELECT s.RowID,
...
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 9:23 pm

#753512
RE: Manipulating a String

Output should be:
'80 98439 9991 997 -50.000' should be Type = 80 Code = 98439
'0000058916 00000074000039708' should be Type = NULL Code = NULL
'0000058916 00000074000039708' should be Type...
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 9:15 pm

#753510
RE: Aggregate query problem

My bad... didn't read your post correctly... didn't realize the code that you posted was a snippet that would be used with the CTE.
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 8:29 pm

#753503
RE: Query for nth lowest sequence in a group

JOIN #source s1 ON s1.cuslink = s.cuslink AND s1.[sequence] <= s.[sequence]
That'll work just fine... provided that the CusLink groups don't get large... and they don't need to get real large...
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 8:18 pm

#753502
RE: INSERTED DUPLICATE RECORDS

The vb program will split the strings and remove unnecessary values such as 0's, and converts strings to datetime.
Yep... you're right... database sure can't do any of 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)

November 22, 2007 at 8:05 pm

#753499
RE: sorting strings

Test it I did...
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Procedure fnNumAlphaFmt, Line 29
Line 29: Incorrect syntax near '9'.
If you believe that the numeric portion will never exceed 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)

November 22, 2007 at 7:43 pm

#753497
RE: drop constraint fails

Do you get any error messages?
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 7:10 pm

#753492
RE: Single record processing

My source is a flat file (csv) and I need to process records one by one. At now records are processed in groups of hundreds and my process can't work...
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 7:08 pm

#753491
RE: INSERTED DUPLICATE RECORDS

Who said anything about a "manual process"? Schedule it! BCP, a proc that uses Bulk Insert, and DTS can all be scheduled.
Does your table have a valid, non-surrogate...
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 7:01 pm

#753490
RE: How to improve our written skill ?

I agree... length of documentation has nothing to do with good documentation. But saying something like "Me want buy thet contest" will make quite a different impression than "I...
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 6:56 pm

#753488
RE: What is the difference between Programmer and Good Programmer ?

Heh... forgot to mention that great programmers also know when and how to buck the system. Otherwise, the become unemployed programmers. 😉
--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)

November 22, 2007 at 6:48 pm

#753487

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