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RE: Best way to stamp records with who created / modified and when?
Don't fight 'em... don't tell 'em... put triggers on the tables for these. Most developers don't even know how to spell trigger never mind go looking for them.
--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.
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RE: Reformat datetime as: mm/dd/yyyy
Ummmm.... since when is 12/01/2005 a month end date?
--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: CrossTab ''''like'''' Query
Good thinking Chandra. I'll have to try it that way sometime because it looks like a really good idea especially since it wouldn't have the 8k limit in the method...
--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: Finding duplicate entries
Tom, ya got lucky... as Sushila stated, most don't read down a thread this deep especially when Sushila and Mike are having a cyber reunion
--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: Finding skipped values
Running out of numbers? It can't be because of SQL... BIGINT is H-U-G-E! You could just change the datatype of the column and, bingo, more numbers.
If the restriction is because...
--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: User Defined Functions Investigation
BANG!
I'm dead. You guys finally proved your point with some cold, hard facts. I didn't like Carl's test the way it was because...--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: User Defined Functions Investigation
Greg Wrote: Go ahead and use your Scalar UDFs on large datasets, and one day if the set becomes large enough, you will be re-evaluating those UDFs.
Allow me to quote...
--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: User Defined Functions Investigation
Here's the late night (quiet server) run times for 25K rows...
- Formula in SELECT
- (25000 row(s) affected)
- 00:00:00:080
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Function in SELECT
- (25000 row(s) affected)
- 00:00:00:157
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Formula in WHERE
- (25000 row(s) affected)
- 00:00:00:593
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Function in WHERE
- (25000 row(s) affected)
- 00:00:00:580
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Function in SELECT
- (25000 row(s)...
--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: User Defined Functions Investigation
Ah... now I see
... it was 200k rows, not 2M rows... too late at night... It does support what we said earlier......--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: User Defined Functions Investigation
No fair!
You used a real server with the Enterprise Edition... I used a pc with the Developer's Edition! --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: User Defined Functions Investigation
Well, they say one measurement is worth a thousand speculations.... so, I did one. I'll have to eat a little crow on the "clearly they are not slower" thing but...
--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: Need SQL to render FIRST day of the year
Harley,
That's an outstanding idea! Thank you. It's nice to see people treating SQL as a computer language instead of just a repository. I do have a couple of suggestions, though...
1....
--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: User Defined Functions Investigation
Serqiy, that was my finding, as well. I was being conservative considering the volitile subject.
My thought is that properly written UDF's are much too valuable to simply write off...
--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: User Defined Functions Investigation
Outstanding, Sergiy!
I ran the following and the proc that uses the DateOnly function doesn't take any longer than the other...
USE NORTHWIND
GO
SET STATISTICS TIME ON
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.ProcTest1 AS
SELECT dbo.DateONLY(ShippedDate)
...
--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: User Defined Functions Investigation
>The conclusion I am reaching is why you should never, ever, under any circumstances use UDFs. e.g. DENY CREATE FUNCTION to public should be standard.
My experience is that UDF's are...
--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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