Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Leveraging AI Tools for SQL Queries

@jonathan-2,
While the AI is quite capable of explaining exactly WHAT the code does programmatically, it's simply not capable of figuring out the WHY for most code. For example, the AI...
--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 19, 2024 at 1:15 pm

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Reply To: Top of Your Profession
David.Poole wrote:
From what I have seen the people I would regard as being at the top of their profession have certain traits.
- Competence with confidence
- Natural teachers. If feels 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 19, 2024 at 1:00 pm

#4364404
Reply To: Leveraging AI Tools for SQL Queries

Not aimed at the author but aimed at the whole concept... Let's look at the first example prompt in the article...
You are an SQL Server database developer. Assume you...
--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 19, 2024 at 5:01 am

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Reply To: Learning NoSQL

Heh... let's look at the first paragraph in the article...
It's a good idea to learn more about different technologies. I've been amazed throughout my career, and even now as...
--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 18, 2024 at 5:46 am

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Reply To: Index performance: Can Mix of lower and upper case cause issues?

Not enough info... we're just guessing from descriptions. Please see the article at the 2nd link in my signature line below for what to post for these types of performance...
--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 18, 2024 at 5:30 am

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Reply To: How to extract number that is greater than or equal to 16 digits
Possible solution to the original question...
Given the original example data...
```
Create Table #Payments (ID int, Comment Text)

INSERT INTO #payments values (1, '65607 Processed via? DISC Last 4 digits...
```
--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 18, 2024 at 4:51 am

#4363625
Reply To: How to extract number that is greater than or equal to 16 digits
Johan Bijnens wrote:
Phil Parkin wrote:
Johan Bijnens wrote:
In this case I would start splitting the comment based on a space.
check "Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function"
and process the spliter results...
- This reply was modified 2 years, 6 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)
January 18, 2024 at 4:17 am

#4363613
Reply To: A Simple Method to Load Excel Data

Phil Parkin will tell you that I'm not a big fan of SSIS or most of the any other 4 letter words in SQL Server.
That not withstanding and with 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)

January 15, 2024 at 4:10 pm

#4362170
Reply To: An In-Depth Look at MIXED_PAGE_ALLOCATION and Changes in Page Allocation

Rule number 1: Claims of efficiency and/or performance MUST be accompanied by demonstrable code to prove 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)

January 11, 2024 at 12:51 am

#4359960
Reply To: Expert Performance Indexing in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2022

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
Third, the clustered index does store data in physical order on pages. The pagse/extents could get out of order, which is fragmentation, but that doesn't change the physical nature...
--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, 2024 at 8:22 pm

#4358702
Reply To: Basic query performance

krypto69 wrote:
And I dont think its going to be fast with that many records - was really just hoping that there might be a faster way that I wasn't thinking...
--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 4, 2024 at 6:59 pm

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Reply To: Basic query performance

krypto69 wrote:
Jeff
the query is the slow part of a larger process.its not being posted to a screen - query is part of universe of claims process that needs to look...
--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 4, 2024 at 6:57 pm

#4356859
Reply To: Parse out filed as date time ???

jbalbo wrote:
Hi Steve,
Thanks for getting back. I was given this table and figured out that this field a varchar(4000) was the field with the start and end dates times. I...
--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 4, 2024 at 4:09 am

#4356452
Reply To: Basic query performance

krypto69 wrote:
It returns over 22m records in about 5 minutes.
According to your query, you're returning 22 million rows to the screen...
Question: What makes you think that's going to be fast? ...
--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 4, 2024 at 4:05 am

#4356450
Reply To: Expert Performance Indexing in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2022

That's great but without the book, the uncommented code you posted doesn't explain at all what the code is supposed to be teaching.
--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 4, 2024 at 3:54 am

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