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RE: best way to copy active table
Then something else went wrong, Gail. Perhaps there was a cross-join in the code. Perhaps you had a bad connection (it happens). Perhaps the linked server was not setup correctly. ...
--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
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RE: Execution plans
Not sure why that would matter at all but OK, whatever you say. I was thinking that maybe the servers had some different settings (like collation and memory allocation), a...
--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) -
RE: copying from one database to another - but only new data?
Uh... if you're new, it'll take a bit of study on your part, but you may want to consider setting up "replication"... then, it's nearly "auto-magic" from there. The steps...
--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) -
RE: best way to copy active table
Well, thanks Greg. I'm thinking that 35 seconds including the addition of a Primary Key isn't too bad (1.37 million rows per minute). I love it when DTS looses (and 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) -
RE: Synchronising Databases
If you truly want to synchronize, why not just generate all the code for sprocs, views, and udf's in Enterprise Manager and let 'er rip?
--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) -
RE: Column data to separate rows
Ok, then... you ask a question, I bust a hump giving you a pretty good answer... did it work for you or what?
--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) -
RE: Text Parsing TSQL code
Milovan,
I noticed that all of the other solutions, although well written and functional, contain WHILE loops. Inherently, WHILE loops are slower than setbased code especially if you have a lot...
--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) -
RE: Bulk Insert flatfile question
To do this, you will need a BCP format file OR, lose the IDENTITY column. BCP Format files can actually do all of the parsing in the final format 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) -
RE: Column data to separate rows
It's easy with a Tally (or Numbers) table...
--===== This is just part of the test setup...
--===== If experimental tables exists, drop them
IF OBJECT_ID('TempDB..#yourtable') IS NOT NULL
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) -
RE: Question regarding NULLS
Is is "death by SQL" to change the Server Wide Setting but if you insist on a certain proc being able to evaluate IF NULL=NULL, then you can use 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) -
RE: best way to copy active table
Outstanding Gail... I forgot about the batchsize thing... to take that a bit further, I used BCP for a similar requirement with 40 million rows... Using a batch size of...
--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) -
RE: best way to copy active table
The SELECT/INTO works very fast because the new destination table has no indexes to update and no check constraints.
If you add the WITH (NOLOCK) hint to the FROM clause,...
--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) -
RE: Translate this in a stored procedure
You say 'em, I'll make 'em. What a team!
The neat thing here is that using NEWID as the seed for RAND allows true...--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) -
RE: Translate this in a stored procedure
Here's a set-based method...
SELECT CHAR(RAND(CAST (NEWID() AS VARBINARY))*26+65)
+ CHAR(RAND(CAST (NEWID() AS VARBINARY))*26+65)
+ CHAR(RAND(CAST (NEWID() AS VARBINARY))*26+65)
+ CHAR(RAND(CAST (NEWID() AS VARBINARY))*26+65)
+ CHAR(RAND(CAST (NEWID() AS VARBINARY))*26+65)
+ CHAR(RAND(CAST (NEWID()...
--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) -
RE: regarding missing id records???
Yeaup! That's the one!! You were there, too, Jesper... way too much fun!
--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)
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