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Cool... someone actually does read these
Thanks for the nice feedback, SDM.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 1, 2007 at 7:31 am
Alright... first, I hate "Adjacency Models"... they're relatively slow and I hate recalculating things every time I want to look something up. Second, product tables don't change that often so...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 10:01 pm
The neat think about counting Pennies is that the Dollars take care of themselves
Add the following to the end of my script...
--Jeff Moden Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
July 31, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Case in point... I'm sure they thought it was pragmatic to do so, at the time...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=8&messageid=386825
... their batch job jumped from 16-20 hours to more than 70... and they...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Yes... they are articles... but you don't have to go far to find them. When you installed the client side of SQL Server, you should have also installed "Books Online". ...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Heh... nicely done, Peter... forgot all about our mutual friend, Mister Cross-Tab.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Heh... I'd have to say you've outlined an impossible scenario and you need to ask better questions.
Not possible to not have...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Nope… you hit the nail on the head, Andy. People DO need to reevaluate what it is they're doing. One of your points hit a particularly sore spot with...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Correct... SSN would be one example of such a key.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Susan,
Cole kinda hijacked your post... do you still need help or are you all set?
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Missing a key piece of information here... basically, what does all that code do? I see stuff like 'Level 3' in it... is it meant to produce some sort of...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 4:55 pm
You bet, Sakthi... thanks for the feedback.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 4:46 pm
First, the lecture...
If you want good quality help in a timely fashion, you must take the time to post your data in the form of a CREATE TABLE along with...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 31, 2007 at 7:46 am
What have you tried, so far?
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 30, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Funny how this works... everyone seems to say that performance isn't all that important... but, why do they buy the high performance hardware if performance is not important? And why do so...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 30, 2007 at 9:07 pm
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