Jeff Moden

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RE: Get Date & DateName Help - newbie questions.

Thought this was what he asked for...
"certain action items need to be automatically assigned (through code) a due date on 3 Wednesday’s from whatever today is. "
I agree, the 14...
--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 9, 2006 at 10:23 pm

#670994
RE: Get Date & DateName Help - newbie questions.

...except, it doesn't work... if today is the 10th of November, 2006, the 3rd Wednesday from today is on the 29th of November... not the 6th of December...
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)

November 9, 2006 at 10:14 pm

#670990
RE: Paging a database useing a stored procedure?

Here's an example I made for the boys at work... the Customer Table has about 1.2 million rows in it... page "0" (page 1) will return in about 16 milliseconds. ...
--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 9, 2006 at 9:50 pm

#670988
RE: Between use for dates.

Len, the following will prevent an index from being used if one is available...
where convert( varchar(10), DateField,112 ) between @T1 and @T2
--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 9, 2006 at 9:34 pm

#670984
RE: weekly Reports by using cross-tab query??

Papillon,
Would you post the query that makes the output, please... there may be a trick or two we can pull off on this one...
--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 9, 2006 at 9:27 pm

#670983
RE: weekly Reports by using cross-tab query??

Do you have an example?
--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 9, 2006 at 6:11 pm

#670967
RE: weekly Reports by using cross-tab query??

And, be aware that because the code uses a global temp table, you should do something to guarantee that only one instance of the code will ever be executed at...
--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 9, 2006 at 6:10 pm

#670966
RE: A big Delete

Robert,
Shifting gears a bit, how's the performance of inserts of new records? How about for a returning customer with a new order? Your clusterd index is VERY contrary 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)

November 9, 2006 at 6:05 pm

#670965
RE: Foreign Key across Databases?

Nope... other than moving the table as Serqiy suggested (and, is actually the correct way to do it!), the only other way is by trigger...
--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 9, 2006 at 5:43 pm

#670963
RE: Multiple Rows to One Column Results

I'm assuming that the proc you made from my code example creates a temp table within it... that won't work because of the scope of temp tables... you have to...
--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 9, 2006 at 6:16 am

#670818
RE: Multiple Rows to One Column Results
Gail,
Sorry I don't have time to modify this code snippet I borrowed from some of the production code I wrote for work... lemme give you a couple of hints...
1. "NPA"...
--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 8, 2006 at 11:29 pm

#670767
RE: Multiple Rows to One Column Results

Really? Easier in the App? Could I see an example, please? And don't forget to report what the performance is... thanks.
--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 8, 2006 at 8:56 pm

#670753
RE: using "IF EXISTS tablebName"

One test is worth a thousand words... run the following... do note that the AUTHOR table does NOT exist in PUBS...
USE PUBS
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.Author') IS NOT NULL --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)

November 8, 2006 at 8:53 pm

#670751
RE: Adding a Carriage Return to sql statement???

Ummm.... why don't you just store it in a variable and execute it using EXEC or sp_ExecuteSQL ???
--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 7, 2006 at 7:30 am

#670279
RE: Adding a Carriage Return to sql statement???

You're missing the implied carriage returns both captured in single quotes and by the return of each line... to emphasize...
SELECT 'Hey
'+'Go'
FROM MASTER..SYSDATABASES WITH(NOLOCK)
WHERE DBID>5
--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 7, 2006 at 6:02 am

#670263

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