Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Great Writers Get Hired

I have to tell you that if you work with the right recruiter, you don't have to worry about AI HR bots, HR people, or whatever. A lot of people...
--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)

January 8, 2020 at 4:40 am

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Reply To: Validating meta data of xls file

p.p.s. Almost forgot. Sheet names that are weird or begin with a numeric digit must be encapsulated in single quotes along with the normal square brackets. For example the sheet...
--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)

January 8, 2020 at 4:33 am

#3713481
Reply To: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

corey lawson wrote:
Hey, Jeff, will you update this yet again to include the new split_string() function in SQL Server 2016+?
Probably not. The STRING_SPLIT function is relatively crippled for those that need...
--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)

January 8, 2020 at 3:33 am

#3713475
Reply To: Validating meta data of xls file

p.s. If the OP has a spreadsheet with just one header row, we'll need to do a little work but not much. We'll make it so it's self-healing just like...
--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)

January 8, 2020 at 2:57 am

#3713467
Reply To: Validating meta data of xls file

Ok... Demo time.
The first thing is to unzip and copy the spreadsheets from the attached SpreadSheets.zip file to the directory of your choice. If the directory is something other than...
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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)

January 8, 2020 at 2:33 am

#3713464
Reply To: Validating meta data of xls file

Actually, skip all of that. Most of it just doesn't matter. I'll be back soon with a demo from the presentation I give on the subject of "Automating "Excel Hell"".

--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)

January 8, 2020 at 1:23 am

#3713454
Reply To: Validating meta data of xls file

Phil Parkin wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Charmer wrote:
Finally, issue is fixed which was a silly and it's done. 🙂
OK, so what was the "silly" fix you employed?
I'll also state that it's a shame 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)

January 8, 2020 at 12:22 am

#3713446
Reply To: Validating meta data of xls file

Thom A wrote:
Charmer wrote:
I declared a variable to hold the file to pass to send mail task. I had a given a value like 'The value is generated by scrip task' ...
--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)

January 8, 2020 at 12:20 am

#3713445
Reply To: difference between numeric and decimal

MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:
Jeff -it needed to be said, but we are f1 AND web search rolled into one......
Heh... I guess that's true in a lot of cases. You would think 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)

January 7, 2020 at 11:57 pm

#3713441
Reply To: Rebuild vs Reorganize

Thank you for the extremely kind and generous words but we have a difference in languages and understanding here. I've "talked" with Brahmanand through other methods and he is a...
--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)

January 7, 2020 at 11:44 pm

#3713436
Reply To: Fifi Calculation

jcelko212 32090 wrote:
>> I don't think I was particularly snarky.
THAT, good Sir, is the crux of the problem. 😉
--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)

January 7, 2020 at 7:05 pm

#3713354
Reply To: Great Writers Get Hired

Grant Fritchey wrote:
Robert Sterbal wrote:
I just asked someone else in this thread:
What would be a good way to get presenters to record their presentation the day before they gave it?
Not sure that'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)

January 7, 2020 at 7:02 pm

#3713352
Reply To: Great Writers Get Hired

Grant Fritchey wrote:
Don't put your face in them. I stopped recording videos about 9 months ago. I'm going to get back on it, but change the format a bit. No more...
--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)

January 7, 2020 at 6:59 pm

#3713350
Reply To: Setting flexible security for reporting

RichardFRay wrote:
Production DB is (RTPOneReporting) DB Owner is 'sa'
Cross database ownership chaining is NOT enabled.
My repository DB is (JHMRReporting) DB Owner is 'dbo'
Cross database ownership chaining is NOT enabled.
My sp,...
--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)

January 7, 2020 at 6:57 pm

#3713347
Reply To: BCP
JigarShah wrote:
Hi,
Assuming you have to add 3 columns with data to the existing 5million row table.
Following is the approach which you can use -
1. Extract the 5...
--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)
January 7, 2020 at 3:17 pm

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