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  • RE: Can You Compute?

    Very nice.  The graphics you took the time to do the "Alice's Restaurant" thing to really make this a very clear article on what Rollups and Cubes actually do.  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)

    January 11, 2005 at 6:37 am

    #536797

  • RE: Calculating Work Days

    Again, lot's of good posts.  Shie, Robert L, Noeld, and Adam have all pointed out that the use of a "Calendar Table" or "Holiday Table" to hold non-workdays (I'm assuming...

    --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)

    January 10, 2005 at 5:43 pm

    #536740

  • RE: Calculating Work Days

    Bert,

    Thanks for the great compliment!  As my follow-up note (long posting above) suggests, you can easily add a reference to a simplified holiday table to the function.

    Frank,

    Thanks for the tip. ...

    --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)

    January 10, 2005 at 6:16 am

    #536628

  • RE: convert varchar to int

    As Farrell suggested, you don't need to do the rounding thing because INT will do the rounding for you.

    Either of these will work...

    SELECT CONVERT(INT,CONVERT(MONEY,'27.49'))
SELECT CAST(CAST('26.50' AS MONEY) AS INT)

    Obviously, 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)

    January 8, 2005 at 1:14 pm

    #536572

  • RE: Calculating Work Days

    Great responses, all, folks.   Thank you very much for taking the time to make them. 

     

    Hmmmm… perhaps the title of the article should have been “Calculating ‘Week’...

    --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)

    January 7, 2005 at 10:00 pm

    #536555

  • RE: ORDER BY varchar data type

    mkeast,

    We've all done that before.  Thanks for the come back.

    --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)

    January 7, 2005 at 7:22 am

    #536401

  • RE: ORDER BY varchar data type

    Sorry mkeast,

    Didn't work the way you expected... here's the output.

    col       

    ----------

    1

    2

    3

    10

    11

    2A

    2B

    3A

    3B

    3C

    I think the original poster wants...

    col       

    ----------

    1

    2

    2A

    2B

    3

    3A

    3B

    3C

    10

    11

    --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)

    January 7, 2005 at 7:00 am

    #536390

  • RE: How to enforce a one-row table

    Great idea but I think they really want a custom error message and a check constraint won't do it.  Ran into the same problem with permissions... no custom error message.

    Switching...

    --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)

    January 6, 2005 at 8:04 pm

    #536321

  • RE: How to enforce a one-row table

    Like I said, I agree especially in light of that fact that many companies just don't have a documentation system in place.  Documentation always seems to take it in 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)

    January 6, 2005 at 7:15 am

    #536173

  • RE: How to enforce a one-row table

    I'd think that the "permission denied" message would drive the point home to a developer but, I agree, it might save a couple of trouble calls to the DBA'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
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

    January 6, 2005 at 6:41 am

    #536160

  • RE: Decorum in the Forums

    I kind of like Andy's idea... all of the ideas are great ones but it's not really broken.  Maybe leave it like it is?

    --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)

    January 6, 2005 at 6:16 am

    #536153

  • RE: How to enforce a one-row table

    Put the customer error message in the App?

    --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)

    January 6, 2005 at 6:13 am

    #536151

  • RE: Last Date Of Month script

    Guess I'll add my two (or is it 3?) cents...

    ------ Finds the LAST day of CURRENT month with no time element
SELECT DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,0,GetDate())+1,0)-1 AS LastDayCurrentMonth
    ------ Finds the LAST day of CURRENT month...

    --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)

    January 5, 2005 at 9:23 pm

    #536111

  • RE: How to enforce a one-row table

    All of that seems like a fair amout of work to keep a table with only 1 row...  why not just log in as the "sa" and revoke insert, update, and...

    --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)

    January 5, 2005 at 8:43 pm

    #536107

  • RE: Get Previous Date

    Ok, Ken, here ya go...

    DATEADD(d,DATEDIFF(d,1,getdate()),0)

    DATEDIFF(d,1,getdate()) takes the difference between the current date and 01/02/1900 and converts it to a whole number 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)

    January 5, 2005 at 5:19 am

    #535950

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