Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Change dbowner

ramyours2003 wrote:
Can we change the dbowner to system databses ? if yes how can we proceed?
First, see Grant's reply.
Second, I have to ask... why would you want to/need to do...
--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)

August 12, 2020 at 1:57 pm

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Reply To: Desktop or Laptop for Remote Work

donald.parish wrote:
My main machine is my desktop. Fast connections to internet and databases. I use a laptop almost always to Remote Desktop Connection to my main desktop. Can use mouse,...
--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)

August 12, 2020 at 1:36 pm

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Reply To: Desktop or Laptop for Remote Work

Interesting article, Steve. Thanks.
I finally bought a new laptop about 8 months ago (it's only my second one in more than a decade after my first one, which still works). ...
--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)

August 12, 2020 at 4:21 am

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Reply To: slow query on a partitioned table

ghostman wrote:
I have a huge table with 3B of rows containing around 6 months of data running on Microsoft SQL server 2017 (RTM), which is partitioned day by day on...
--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)

August 12, 2020 at 3:36 am

#3779150
Reply To: slow query on a partitioned table

Adi Cohn wrote:
Unfortunately there is an old bug that for some reason Microsoft is not fixing. When using top clause or min or max aggregation functions on a partitioned table, SQL...
--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)

August 12, 2020 at 3:19 am

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Robert Sterbal wrote:
I'm getting the impression that you think a product for hundreds of millions of users has to work the way you want it to. If it doesn't, the product...
--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)

August 12, 2020 at 3:07 am

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Reply To: Simple query question

dan.bridgeman wrote:
Fair point. I was trying out my solution on a test database that didn't have a prepared Calendar table, so that was my quick hack. I should have cleaned...
--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)

August 11, 2020 at 6:38 pm

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Reply To: Delete only one record takes 20 seconds and have to delete 11000

I've been through this one before... How many Foreign Keys are pointing at that table? You may have to add indexes to the columns in the other tables on 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)

August 11, 2020 at 6:08 pm

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Reply To: Previous row where condition exists

Like I said, I didn't find the sorts to be obnoxious for the basic Windowing functions... it's the bloody partitioned COUNT(*) that was doing it and I found a work...
--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)

August 11, 2020 at 4:02 am

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Robert Sterbal wrote:
In nearly 30 years of using excel there are very few situations that don't have a straight forward work around.
Heh... I look at it another way...
In more than 30...
--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)

August 11, 2020 at 3:55 am

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Reply To: SQL Script Help

EMtwo wrote:
I am looking for a script that can return the following values for each of the databases in my instance: Object ID, Object Type, Database Name, Table Name, Schema...
--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)

August 10, 2020 at 8:21 pm

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Reply To: slow query

Jeffrey Williams wrote:
Could you post the plan here: https://www.brentozar.com/pastetheplan/
Frederico attached a converted copy as a ZIP file.
--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)

August 10, 2020 at 8:18 pm

#3778751
Reply To: Previous row where condition exists

I've been playing with this some more, Scott. It turns out that the Partitioned COUNT(*) is just freakin' nasty (creates 145 extra reads on a 2 page table) compared 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)

August 10, 2020 at 2:37 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

jonathan.crawford wrote:
How would Microsoft actually handle this case though, without disabling the ability to convert MAR1 into the 1st of March for the rest of the users? If the trick...
--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)

August 10, 2020 at 2:30 pm

#3778651
Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

OMG! The world has gone completely mad. If you still don't think that spreadsheets rule the world, read the following article. The "punch line" after the title 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)

August 10, 2020 at 1:53 pm

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