Jeff Moden

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RE: Between use for dates.

Folks, go back and read Vladan's post... that's the only correct way to do it. He explains "why" quite nicely, too.
--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 10:59 pm

#671001
RE: Between use for dates.

Careful... that, too, will likely cause a table scan because the column in the WHERE clause is contained in a formula...
--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 10:57 pm

#671000
RE: Get Date & DateName Help - newbie questions.

Well, when folks post such detailed information about how their code works (very nice job, by the way), others take the code and just use it instead of analyzing it. ...
--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 10:43 pm

#670998
RE: Get Date & DateName Help - newbie questions.

Sure, that's what he said he thought the logic should be... he said immediately after that...
"Is the logic correct? Can someone please help me decipher...
--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 10:29 pm

#670996
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

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