Jeff Moden

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RE: Flat files - any advantages?

David...
What do you call "huge?" How many denormalized rows are we talking about? I work with a denormalized input from a million customer IVR and there are currently almost...
--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)

December 15, 2006 at 5:01 pm

#678488
RE: How to count the number of bytes in in each row?

I appreciate the compliment but I didn't do anything... my comment was actually directed to Mohammed's fine and easy solution.
John is correct... using the system tables would certainly 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)

December 15, 2006 at 4:49 pm

#678487
RE: Need Help Sorting

So... how many rows must you examine (do this 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)

December 15, 2006 at 4:45 pm

#678486
RE: Views referencing views (problem)

Cache. It's not supposed to happen but I've seen it before. Could be something else but I'd have to see all of the code to figure it out.
--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)

December 15, 2006 at 4:26 pm

#678485
RE: Views referencing views (problem)

Views of views of views to feed DTS... I once raised my arm over my head in a very funny way and it hurt like hell. I went to 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)

December 15, 2006 at 6:57 am

#678316
RE: Remove non numeric characters

Way to go Nigel!
--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)

December 15, 2006 at 5:50 am

#678301
RE: Start of Last Week

DATEFIRST isn't server sensitive and is not a system wide setting when invoked from QA... it's session/spid sensitive...
Run the following in one QA window...
SET DATEFIRST 3
SELECT @@DATEFIRST
Run this...
--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)

December 14, 2006 at 11:10 pm

#678260
RE: How to count the number of bytes in in each row?

Nicely done... very nice, indeed.
--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)

December 14, 2006 at 9:53 pm

#678253
RE: Need Help Sorting

Of course, if you want to go with total formatting of the version column for ease of sorting in the future...
--===== If the test table already exists, drop...
--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)

December 14, 2006 at 9:44 pm

#678252
RE: Need Help Sorting

Rich,
If your version numbers will never have more than 4 parts, here's a good start without a UDF... the first two sections of the code below are just to setup...
--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)

December 14, 2006 at 9:29 pm

#678251
RE: Error: table name contains more than the maximum number of prefixes. The maximum is 3

Change the EXEC(@SQL) to PRINT @sql and debug that... that will lead you back to the problem in your dynamic SQL.
--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)

December 14, 2006 at 8:49 pm

#678248
RE: Flat files - any advantages?

Ok, I'm a bit confused... Rose posted "Queries can take hours to run, and performance is the major issue. To be honest, there is not a lot of relational data."
I'm...
--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)

December 14, 2006 at 8:25 pm

#678246
RE: Remove non numeric characters

Remi... I think you may have confused a couple of people because you didn't include any documention in your test script to identify the fact that most of your code...
--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)

December 14, 2006 at 7:28 pm

#678245
RE: Update column containing a quote

UPDATE Customers SET Last_Name = REPLACE(@LastName,'''','''''') WHERE Cust_ID = 'A34778'
Do heed the other's warnings...
--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)

December 14, 2006 at 7:02 am

#678064
RE: query from hell

Step 1... For "queries from hell", the first step would be to "knock the hell out of it". Format the code so you can actually read it instead of having...
--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)

December 14, 2006 at 6:47 am

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