Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Half of All Engineers

I wonder why people think that "moving slower" is a bad thing.
The good part about that is, they're going to need people to fix the stuff that the companies 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)

May 1, 2026 at 2:29 pm

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Reply To: data compare between 2 tables with same structure for any changes after etl run

syam.tunuguntla wrote:
i have huge table with lot of data and is also wide. i took a backup of it before procedure is run in test environment. now i am trying...
--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)

April 24, 2026 at 5:11 pm

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Reply To: that one limitation in replication

Do you have a unique Clustered Index or Non-Clustered Index on the table or a column that could take one. If the answer is "Yes", at a PK constraint to...
--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)

April 24, 2026 at 4:52 pm

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Reply To: Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server

I appreciate anyone that steps up to the proverbial plate to share knowledge. Thank you for that.
The hard truth is that is an example of procedural thinking possibly being justified...
--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)

April 10, 2026 at 12:28 pm

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Reply To: Changing Data Types

We made some datatype changes in older tables that were created by people that probably should not have been allowed near a computer. These were the type of people 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)

March 19, 2026 at 2:02 am

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Reply To: AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA

To be honest, this all sounds like one of those developers that believes that "Knuth's Parable" about "Preoptimization is the Root of All Evel" means that you never have to...
--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 24, 2026 at 10:48 pm

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Reply To: Eight Minutes

Heh... you said a mouthful on the "bad" stuff. I actually asked ChatGPT about things like that and it says that it is programmed to basically come up with 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 27, 2026 at 2:01 am

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Reply To: Eight Minutes

I found a very interesting article... It's interesting for two reasons...
The first is because the writer thinks we're all screwed, especially juniors.
The second is because he says that SQL 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 26, 2026 at 8:50 pm

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Reply To: Introduction of OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = ON

saum70 wrote:
...will be inserted using BCP from VC++ application...
I'm definitely not a front-end kind of guy... When you say "BCP", what are you talking about??? Single row inserts?
The reason 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)

January 26, 2026 at 8:36 pm

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Reply To: Eight Minutes

Understood on the areas where AI shines.. kinda simple stuff. I'd estimate that more than 90% of the population doesn't get that. They also don't understand what "Silent Failures" 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)

January 26, 2026 at 8:29 pm

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Reply To: Cumulative Update 23 - KB5074819 - Database Mail - No longer working.

Bob Ward send out a notification on LinkedIn that SQL Server 2022 CU-23 and SQL Sever 2025 CU-1 have a nasty bug in them that does just exactly what 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 22, 2026 at 6:21 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Neil Burton wrote:
There's a question. I've sent off a few applications but I've not had positive back from any of them. There's not a lot going on at the moment 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 19, 2026 at 12:15 am

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Reply To: Eight Minutes

I have to admit that I'm seriously concerned about AI, especially but not limited to when it's been asked to do something in SQL.
When it comes to such a thing,...
--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 16, 2026 at 3:22 am

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Reply To: JSON Has a Cost

I can't see any of the comments that were posted according to the discussion pages near the bottom of the 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)

January 14, 2026 at 6:18 pm

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Reply To: Large posts full of code not allowed anymore?

frederico_fonseca wrote:
the reason why the code was removed (post deleted really) is because since sometime ago any post that contains 2 URL's gets that treatment. there is no error, just...
--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 13, 2026 at 3:45 am

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