Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Return code with stored procedure

Excellent. Thanks for the feedback, Michael.
--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 19, 2020 at 1:31 am

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Reply To: Cleanup Sysmail -items from msdb

Excellent. Thanks for the feedback, Bruin. I think I can speak for the others in saying that we're very interested in how your test turns out. My production system only...
--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 19, 2020 at 1:29 am

#3752763
Reply To: Cleanup Sysmail -items from msdb

To be honest, I think that all'y'all 😀 are making this a whole lot more complex than needed. The PK on the table is an identity column. That means 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 18, 2020 at 7:33 pm

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Reply To: Return code with stored procedure

And, no... not as old as dirt. I'm older than a lot of the dirt I made in my garden. 😀 I've got sox older than some of your adult...
--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 18, 2020 at 3:37 pm

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Reply To: Return code with stored procedure

michael.leach2015 wrote:
Jeff,
Thanks for the link. Now I understand how to obtain the return code.
Here is the only part I don't understand. Using the code from my example, how might 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)

May 18, 2020 at 3:35 pm

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Reply To: Return code with stored procedure

michael.leach2015 wrote:
Jeff,
Thanks for the link. Now I understand how to obtain the return code.
Here is the only part I don't understand. Using the code from my example, how might 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)

May 18, 2020 at 3:31 pm

#3752604
Reply To: Memory Optimized tables for speeding inserts and updates

IMHO, memory optimized tables have a lot of baggage for something like this. How often will you need to do this? If it's once every 10 minutes, maybe. If it'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)

May 18, 2020 at 3:03 pm

#3752597
Reply To: Return code with stored procedure

You have to use RETURN somevalue or variable in the proc to get such a return.
See the following...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/return-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15
--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 18, 2020 at 2:33 pm

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Reply To: How can I determine relationships or dependencies between tables or queries?

frank.kress wrote:
Hi Jeff
that's incredibly fantastic. That's exactly what I thought.
The system views such as: sys.sql_dependencies goes in the right direction but the tool from Quest is a real hammer.
And 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)

May 18, 2020 at 1:55 pm

#3752511
Reply To: Cleanup Sysmail -items from msdb

Maybe, but it shouldn't be for long unless you have a huge number of emails per day. Of course, you would have had the same blocking (short and sweet) 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)

May 18, 2020 at 1:49 am

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Reply To: Cleanup Sysmail -items from msdb

I'm thinking that, although the mail items are being deleted, I'm not sure that any attachments will be and I'm pretty sure that the mail log isn't being reduced by...
--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 17, 2020 at 7:27 pm

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Reply To: Thoughts on storing repetitive data

Using 9999-01-01 is no more of kludge than using NULL but the former has advantages over using NULL when it comes to performance, especially if you understand that the use...
--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 17, 2020 at 3:56 pm

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Reply To: Forum FAQ

Cool. Added the link to the Forum FAQ article to my signature line. Thanks, Steve.
--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 15, 2020 at 11:21 pm

#3752141
Reply To: Number of TempDB Files over 8

Rebuild the stats first. Let's talk about the indexes after that.
Believe it or not and depending on the type(s) of workloads they have, logical fragmentation may not actually matter for...
--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 15, 2020 at 9:54 pm

#3752132
Reply To: Bones of SQL - Practical Calendar Queries

ans328 wrote:
Can you give a brief explanation of the nested date functions?
It's just the use of functions as operands (parameters) for other functions. Something like the following pseudo-code...
Function3( Function1(somevalue) ,Function2(somevalue)...
--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 15, 2020 at 2:22 pm

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