Jeff Moden

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RE: SQL Bulk Insert - using " to wrap text fields

All good suggestions and I like the simplicity of Fred Wadley's solution. However, sometimes you can't use Bulk Insert because the DBA won't give you either "SA" permissions or "BULK...
--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)

March 7, 2005 at 6:20 am

#545690
RE: How to Remove Identity Property

Niel,
There is no such simple T-SQL to remove the IDENTITY property as you would remove a constraint. Even Enterprise Manager has to do a little song and dance to do...
--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)

March 7, 2005 at 5:01 am

#545686
RE: SQL Query Combine with string

Morean,
SellerTools' answer can easily be modified to handle 8000 characters just by changing "Declare @sql as varchar(200)" to "Declare @sql as varchar(8000)". Still, it's dynamic SQL and might be better...
--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)

March 7, 2005 at 4:04 am

#545673
RE: SQL Query Combine with string

Actually, it can be done without the overhead of Dynamic SQL by using a CASE statement in the WHERE clause....
SELECT ID,Name,Description
FROM Table1
WHERE Name = 'AA'
AND ID...
--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)

March 5, 2005 at 9:44 am

#545622
RE: Returning a record for each day in a range

A fellow on this forum who goes by the name of "Adam Mechanic" would have you create a permanent date table so that you can easily solve these types 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)

March 3, 2005 at 6:27 am

#545186
RE: Maximum bytes per row?

After reading the links that Frank posted and reading "Estimating Table Size" in BOL AND reading "Data Types" in BOL, I've kind of decided that it's just easier to remember...
--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)

March 3, 2005 at 6:00 am

#545175
RE: Common Table Expressions in SQL Server 2005

Guess I didn't know that... how do you forward reference a temp table?
--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)

March 2, 2005 at 7:52 pm

#545090
RE: Maximum bytes per row?

Thanks for the info!
--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)

March 2, 2005 at 7:47 pm

#545089
RE: Last Business Day of Each Month

This could be converted to a UDF to replace GETDATE() with a date for the month to find the last business day of...
The time included in the date takes you...
--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)

March 2, 2005 at 1:57 am

#544790
RE: Maximum bytes per row?

What's the lookup in BOL that proved so useful?
--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)

March 2, 2005 at 1:25 am

#544782
RE: Common Table Expressions in SQL Server 2005

Nice job and you got right to the point. Great comparison example against derived tables. My hat's off to you.
--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)

March 2, 2005 at 1:16 am

#544779
RE: Identity and Primary Keys

Concur... a world of hurt lays ahead for those using Unique Identifiers in a casual manner.
... and, I agree, the customer code is the unique number to be used as...
--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)

February 28, 2005 at 9:27 pm

#544529
RE: regarding Triggers And BulkInsert & BulkCopy

Like I said, you have to give the hint "FIRE_TRIGGERS" to get triggers to fire during a bulk-copy or bulk-insert. If you do that, then the inserts get "logged" in...
--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)

February 28, 2005 at 9:02 pm

#544528
RE: Is it really a complex query?

>"1000 Points whose values are coming after about every second"
Does this mean that the table grows by a thousand rows every second? If so, some well designed indexes would help. ...
--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)

February 28, 2005 at 5:54 am

#544393
RE: regarding Triggers And BulkInsert & BulkCopy

Not unless you specify the FIRE_TRIGGERS hint which also causes the operation to become fully logged.
--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)

February 27, 2005 at 2:02 pm

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