Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Trying to Make combinations within a bracket in SSMS column

riddhi10 wrote:
What application would you suggest using for this, If i were to run row operations on the application side?
None. As you've seen by Phil's and Steve's solutions, T-SQL solutions...
--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)

July 16, 2020 at 4:30 am

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Reply To: Carefully Giving Normal Users Security Permissions

This is what I use stored procedures for. The store procedures are each crafted to do one an only one thing, to do it well, and to do it 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)

July 16, 2020 at 4:02 am

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Reply To: Returning data from table based on date ranges

Ah... understood on the offsets. Thanks, Jeff.
--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)

July 14, 2020 at 1:57 am

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Reply To: Returning data from table based on date ranges
@Jeffrey Williams...
I think you're on the right track but...
1. Due to your hard-coded offsets for the start of each quarter, what's going to happen on a Leap Year?
2. Although probably...
--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)
July 13, 2020 at 11:57 pm

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Reply To: What do you like for third party database backup/restore for SQL server & Azure

To be honest, I've tried several and I prefer the homegrown native backup methods.
--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)

July 13, 2020 at 10:10 pm

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Reply To: Nearest Proximity For every record

Phil Parkin wrote:
marty.seed wrote:
How does that help?
Because it gives you the distance from every building to every other building.
And, if you use the right measurements, it gives you the actual driving...
--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)

July 13, 2020 at 10:06 pm

#3769576
Reply To: Find the last occurrence of \ character and get the left of string.

What version of T-SQL are you actually using? I ask because there's no such thing as "VARCHR" in T-SQL. There is "VARCHAR" but it has two "A"s in it 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)

July 13, 2020 at 4:52 pm

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Reply To: Beating the Cloud Vendors

David.Poole wrote:
Confusing pricing, limited hardware choices, and a feature mix that is different.
The king is dead, long live the king!
In our case, a feature mix that is inadequate when 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)

July 13, 2020 at 4:48 pm

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Reply To: Isnull in a Where Clause

david.edwards 76768 wrote:
Luis
You have the same column on the left and right of the equality
WHERE fldinfo=ISNULL(@parameter,fldinfo)
...
Happy to stand corrected.
It's actually because of the function usage on a column. Every row must...
--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)

July 13, 2020 at 1:35 pm

#3769405
Reply To: Snapshot database

Phil Parkin wrote:
Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
I think Phil is showing a restore of the database from the snapshot, essentially rewinding time.
Correct. To be honest, I just assumed that the OP had worded their...
--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)

July 13, 2020 at 1:23 pm

#3769402
Reply To: Function to split string

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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)

July 13, 2020 at 1:21 pm

#3769401
Reply To: Returning data from table based on date ranges

sc-w wrote:
Hi Jeff, thanks for your reply. The dates will not changes each year they will remain the same. What are your thoughts based on this? Thanks.
My thoughts on 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)

July 12, 2020 at 10:24 pm

#3769281
Reply To: Controlling Intelligent Query Processing Features

I forget which movie I saw it in but the quote was "A man's gotta know his limits". To convert that to something more appropriate to this thread, "A DBA's...
--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)

July 11, 2020 at 4:58 pm

#3769162
Reply To: Function to split string

Jeffrey Williams wrote:
If I am reading your function correctly - all it is doing is splitting the delimited string and returning the values as rows. There is no reason 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)

July 11, 2020 at 3:52 pm

#3769158
Reply To: Returning data from table based on date ranges

sc-w wrote:
So I have a table called charges that stores rent and service charges for properties. Some properties pay rent monthly and others in English quarter days which are (March...
--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)

July 11, 2020 at 3:48 pm

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