Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Get both Count and the data through single query to reduce time

John Mitchell-245523 wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
John Mitchell-245523 wrote:
Have you tried getting the row count from the sys.partitions view?
John
In this case, I think that's a bad idea because that may not match the actual 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)

April 20, 2020 at 4:10 pm

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Reply To: Get both Count and the data through single query to reduce time
John Mitchell-245523 wrote:
Have you tried getting the row count from the sys.partitions view?
John
In this case, I think that's a bad idea because that may not match the actual number of rows...
- This reply was modified 6 years, 4 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)
April 20, 2020 at 3:47 pm

#3744695
Reply To: Stored Procedure that joins tables and accepts a parameter to filter the result

@DataRat and to all those helping him... please raise your hand if you wouldn't be upset if it was YOUR plain text SSN that was splattered across 35 tables even...
--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 20, 2020 at 3:44 pm

#3744693
Reply To: A Data Science Approach in Product Analytics

I think that one of the most important parts of all of this can be found in the conclusion section of the article. In particular, I'm talking about the following...
--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 20, 2020 at 3:26 pm

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Reply To: Real columns are comma separated instead of dot separated ?

gormus wrote:
Hi Jeff,
Language on Windows is also en-us. So can't be that either. Thanks for replying tho.
I'm not talking about the language on Windows... I'm talking about the language settings...
--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 20, 2020 at 3:08 pm

#3744677
Reply To: Temp table and table variable

I know it seems like a strange question because the answer may seem obvious but why are you doing this? If the answer is to do supposed "Best Practice" index...
--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 20, 2020 at 2:45 pm

#3744658
Reply To: How Much AI Do We Need?

skeleton567 wrote:
Depending on AI is like listening to the news. It is more opinion than fact. It is by its very nature biased by the beliefs and desires of those...
--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 20, 2020 at 2:09 pm

#3744647
Reply To: Monitor Database and Log Growth

René Oertel wrote:
I want to run this script on the server itself. I don't have a SQL Server for administrative purposes. Can I adapt this script for this purpose or 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)

April 20, 2020 at 2:05 pm

#3744645
Reply To: Sql Statement to display multiple true statement
bionicsamir wrote:
I have a sql statement that checks for certain special characters in a string and returns that.
SELECT
```
CASE

WHEN (LEN(DSC1) - CHARINDEX(char(1), DSC1)) <> LEN(DSC1) THEN '[DSC1 -...
```
--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 19, 2020 at 11:21 pm

#3744032
Reply To: Real columns are comma separated instead of dot separated ?

Not sure but you may also have to for the language to "English", 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)

April 19, 2020 at 11:21 pm

#3744031
Reply To: Entity Relationship diagram - Path and Node entities

Heh... Ok... I'll bite. Is it? 😉
I also wonder why people do this type of thing to perfectly good relational data.
--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 19, 2020 at 11:16 pm

#3744030
Reply To: Create Stored Procedure to create Indexes?

jbalbo wrote:
To be honest the vendor won't tell use. It is transaction replication for reporting
All I know is they won't turn on nonclustered inxedes in replication
thus the recreation each night
I'd...
--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 18, 2020 at 2:07 am

#3743913
Reply To: The Conferences of the Future

Nah... I gotta agree... face time is better than any of 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)

April 18, 2020 at 1:58 am

#3743912
Reply To: The Conferences of the Future

I don't mind giving online presentations at all because I don't do much differently. During in person presentations, I actually tell people not to look at me but, rather, 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 17, 2020 at 4:50 pm

#3743802
Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
I've unspammed it. While it did look funny, I didn't take it that way. Mainly because I've seen quite a few posts from SCDecade.

BWAAA-HAAAA!!! So you've been watching him...
--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 16, 2020 at 8:54 pm

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