Jeff Moden

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Reply To: My topic is being flagged as spam
You folks should hum a rock at the webmaster for this site to do two things...
1. See if they'll "unspam" your post.
2. See if they can improve the anti-spam bot...
--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 1, 2020 at 5:16 am

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Reply To: Get Particular Date from a Month

@Jeffrey Williams,
I tested your performance improvements for Peter's code and they're an order of magnitude faster. Nicely done. I've also not been able to find a fault in the output...
--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 1, 2020 at 5:13 am

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Reply To: Tally generator

Lynn Pettis wrote one back in 2009, as well.
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/the-dynamic-tally-or-numbers-table
If I get the chance, I'll add his to the mix, as well.
Anyway, thanks again for the article and the code,...
--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 1, 2020 at 4:54 am

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Reply To: Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Lynn Pettis wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Thanks for the very kind feedback, Jason.
Interesting code, Jason. While I've seen such a thing before, I've not seen many folks that provide a starting value and number...
--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 1, 2020 at 4:46 am

#3815408
Reply To: Tally generator

Wow... it's amazing how fast machines have gotten. I just tested Sergiy's, Chris', and my fnTally function for simply generating 10 million rows to a bitbucket variable. (No JOIN, though,...
--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 1, 2020 at 3:43 am

#3815405
Reply To: Get Particular Date from a Month

Jeffrey Williams wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Jeffrey Williams wrote:
Just a little warning - you should not use a string literal in the function as that will be implicitly converted and could cause cardinality issues. Instead...
--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 1, 2020 at 2:55 am

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Reply To: Get Particular Date from a Month
Post withdrawn... I need to stop testing at night.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Jeff Moden.
--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 1, 2020 at 2:44 am

#3815392
Reply To: Get Particular Date from a Month

Jeffrey Williams wrote:
Just a little warning - you should not use a string literal in the function as that will be implicitly converted and could cause cardinality issues. Instead - 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)

November 30, 2020 at 10:44 pm

#3815338
Reply To: Delivering Patches Quickly

I'll also add that a lot of the "patches" by MS actually take years to fix, if they even bother to fix them at all.
For example, there's been a whole...
--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 30, 2020 at 5:58 pm

#3815247
Reply To: Delivering Patches Quickly

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
And consider how quickly broken systems get patched.
A far cry from patches that were delayed months, sometimes closing in on double digit months, in the 90s and early 2000s.

True...
--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 30, 2020 at 5:55 pm

#3815246
Reply To: Get Particular Date from a Month

jcelko212 32090 wrote:
There is another calendar format is used in the Scandinavian countries and has an ISO standard. It looks like "yyyyW[0-9][0-9]-[1-7]" the W is a number between 01 and 52...
--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 30, 2020 at 5:53 pm

#3815245
Reply To: Delivering Patches Quickly

dsor wrote:
the way I see it. If you deploy every day or even once a week, you eventually either learn how to do it safely or go out of business.
Heh......
--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 30, 2020 at 5:31 pm

#3815238

Reply To: Get Particular Date from a Month

Ok... One more time. This time, actually verified.

Here's the formula for use with GETDATE(). You can change the two "GETDATE()"s to a column in a table, 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)

November 30, 2020 at 4:35 pm

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