Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Inflow / outflow report per day

milo1981 wrote:
Looks like I'll have to migrate to a newer version of SQL. Thank you everyone for their support!
There's no need to wait... simply use the following code for 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 8, 2020 at 10:11 pm

#3818390
Reply To: The default ORDER BY

It doesn't work just in the old punch-card days. It works fine now, as well. 😀

--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 8, 2020 at 6:26 pm

#3818307
Reply To: Seeking Growth

"Mastery" can also be an illusion... remember that "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man (even with less than perfect vision) is king".
--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 8, 2020 at 6:24 pm

#3818306
Reply To: Inflow / outflow report per day
milo1981 wrote:
Thank you, Jeff for taking the time to write and comment your response.
However, I get the following error when I run the script:
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Msg 208, Level 16,...
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--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, 2020 at 4:55 pm

#3817874
Reply To: Seeking Growth

One of the problems that I've witnessed since the fateful day of Monday, January the 18th, 2016 when I discovered that it was the supposed "Best Practice" index maintenance 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 7, 2020 at 4:12 pm

#3817863
Reply To: The default ORDER BY

Lordy... Let us hope that MS never makes a DB or Server-Wide setting for this.
--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, 2020 at 2:39 pm

#3817829
Reply To: How to mantain index in SQL and size of Database

@ Evgeny Garaev ,
I totally agree that Ola's good code will take a huge number of different settings. There's no argument there or on the quality of Ola's code.
The problem...
--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, 2020 at 10:38 pm

#3817600
Reply To: Index Column Order – Be Happy!

Sergiy wrote:
A covering index with Status column first followed by OrderDate is inevitably a subject of severe page splits on every ongoing INSERT's.
I can definitely vouch for that... 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)

December 6, 2020 at 4:55 am

#3817425
Reply To: Index Column Order – Be Happy!

Jeff Moden wrote:
The link for Jonathan's script, once you find it on SQLSkills, is broken. Do you have another source for the script that makes the two sales tables larger?
And, I...
--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, 2020 at 4:52 am

#3817424
Reply To: Inflow / outflow report per day

Ok. First of all, we need to get rid of the incremental rCTE (recursive CTE) that you're using to come up with the missing dates. Please see the following article...
--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, 2020 at 3:27 am

#3817412
Reply To: Inflow / outflow report per day

That, good sir, is an excellent post. Thank you for taking the time to post it. I'll be 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)

December 6, 2020 at 1:02 am

#3817396
Reply To: SQL agent job failed

In that case, I don't have any good guesses. The error message is pretty clear about it not being able to find the file. I'm still thinking it's a privs...
--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 5, 2020 at 5:50 pm

#3817328
Reply To: SQL agent job failed

I'm thinking that the services accounts for the new server have no privs on the target directory. Fix that and you should be golden.
--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 5, 2020 at 4:43 pm

#3817317
Reply To: Catching Minor Issues

"Minor Issues"??? A multi-million dollar rocket crashing is NOT a "Minor Issue"! 😀 Neither is using a space vehicle for a planetary drill because of a difference in measuring systems...
--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 5, 2020 at 3:57 pm

#3817307
Reply To: Inflow / outflow report per day

milo1981 wrote:
By the way, I'm using SQL Server 2005.
For the love of Pete... why on Earth would you post your problem in a 2014 forum then? Any other caveats you'd...
--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 5, 2020 at 3:41 pm

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