Jeff Moden

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RE: Return the value of @@IDENTITY - best way?

You bet, Gazley... BOL tells you EVERYTHING and sometimes it's much more than you need (although, I always start there) or can be difficult to draw a conclusion from. 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)

December 28, 2004 at 5:45 am

#535124
RE: Return the value of @@IDENTITY - best way?

John,
SCOPE_IDENTITY() does require the use of parentheses like GETDATE() does. I didn't see them in the code you posted and I'm hoping that was the only problem you had.
--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)

December 28, 2004 at 4:54 am

#535117
RE: Return the value of @@IDENTITY - best way?

Gazley,
The reason I said that using @@IDENTITY in the presence of triggers is "Death by SQL" is because of the way @@IDENTITY works... it (basically) returns the IDENTITY of 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)

December 28, 2004 at 4:50 am

#535116
RE: using variables as tablenames?

Like I said, Joe... all of your explanations are spot on and I agree with telling folks of the dangers that lurk out there... but there's two ways to tell...
--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)

December 27, 2004 at 9:06 am

#535050
RE: using variables as tablenames?

Dang, Joe... lighten up! All of your suggestions are spot on but you have to remember that, sometimes, it's a third party database that these folks have to deal with...
--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)

December 27, 2004 at 1:33 am

#535009
RE: Return the value of @@IDENTITY - best way?

Then you already know that using @@IDENTITY in the presence of triggers is "death by SQL" and that the use of "it" is hardly ever the "best way" (as Ken was...
--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)

December 27, 2004 at 12:26 am

#535005
RE: Generating Unique ID on Server

Thanks nskr72... I missed that.
--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)

December 10, 2004 at 7:10 am

#533324
RE: Help with Datetime field ...Please help!

You can avoid this...
IF (@FromDate = NULL)
SET @FromDate = '1/1/1900'
... by doing this... (just a bit faster, I think)
SET @FromDate...
--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)

December 9, 2004 at 9:34 pm

#533282
RE: Generating Unique ID on Server

> Do you think this may pose deadlock problems? This should be the only stored procedure or even script for that matter that would ever access this table.
Fred,
Yeah, your 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
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

December 9, 2004 at 6:16 am

#533173
RE: Generating Unique ID on Server

A third party company that we had the great misfortune of hiring, did something similar (nearly identical) in our database... it caused an average of 620 deadlocks a day. 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)

December 7, 2004 at 11:56 pm

#532973
RE: How to generate SQL DML

Not sure why you wouldn't want to use a set based Trigger for this... it's a tried and true method and will run raster than anything else you could throw...
--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)

December 7, 2004 at 11:08 pm

#532971
RE: Help With DateTime Values

>Will having 2 records for the one shift with 2 seperate ID's affect my Analyisis Services CUBES?
Here's a bit of code where you will not have two records... most 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)

December 6, 2004 at 1:11 am

#532597
RE: Calling an SP from a Select Statement

Perhaps instead of a stored procedure, it should be a view so that you can select from it as if it were a table. Also, take a look at OpenRowSet...
--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 29, 2004 at 8:58 pm

#531804
RE: xml problem

Dude?
--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 28, 2004 at 9:00 am

#531656
RE: key is not unique

Do you want to automatically delete the dupes (leaving only the earliest or the latest) or just find them? Frank is correct... the search leads to lot's of "duplicate row" goodies...
--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 27, 2004 at 7:24 am

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