Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Deduplicating records from monthly table backups?

Better than what Carey Hower just proposed, why not just leave the table named as HugeTable with no date marker and just back that up? What they're doing is insane.
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)

October 3, 2019 at 12:01 pm

#3685634
Reply To: Remove Cursors

To be honest, I'm totally opposed to publishing answers to interview questions that some company obviously feels important about. Such answers would make it pretty easy for other people 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)

October 3, 2019 at 2:42 am

#3685532
Reply To: Getting a List of the Striped Backup Files

Hi Steve...
Thanks for taking the time to write and publish this article. I am curious, though. What is the link to Brent's article?
--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)

October 3, 2019 at 2:24 am

#3685530
Reply To: Index Theories on adding new columns (Not Nullable)

5% doesn't prevent you from rebuilding an index. The settings you pass to your defrag software might.
The term "corrupted" is the wrong term here. The index is not being corrupted. ...
--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)

October 3, 2019 at 1:50 am

#3685527
Reply To: Guaranteed Varchar to Date conversion

Any format containing yyyy-mm-dd can also throw you for a loop if the data had French origins because SQL Server uses YYYY-DD-MM with the French Language.
There is NO WAY 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)

October 2, 2019 at 9:53 pm

#3685471
Reply To: Index Theories on adding new columns (Not Nullable)

What do you mean by "As the data moves on the pages the index is getting corrupted"?
--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)

October 2, 2019 at 9:49 pm

#3685470
Reply To: Deduplicating records from monthly table backups?

Kevlarmpowered wrote:
I have a database that has monthly backups of a table for the past five years... i.e., they copied the table at the end of the month to 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)

October 2, 2019 at 3:49 pm

#3685345
Reply To: Deduplicating records from monthly table backups?

jcelko212 32090 wrote:
Have you looked at archive tools? This is not a SQL job.
Actually, it's the perfect job for SQL Server.
--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)

October 2, 2019 at 3:42 pm

#3685344
Reply To: Why no posts?

To answer both of your questions for what I'm currently doing... 100% on-prem for SQL Server.
As for the MS versions of machine learning in general, the only thing I've done...
--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)

October 1, 2019 at 10:59 pm

#3685157
Reply To: Create index ... online=ON

If I had to guess, my guess would be that they're using the default settings instead of actual settings. That's terrible, of course, but I see little that can be...
--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)

October 1, 2019 at 10:45 pm

#3685156
Reply To: How

Thanks, Luis. I appreciate the feedback. If you get the chance, let us know how it all works out for you even if you don't use the code I posted...
--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)

October 1, 2019 at 9:12 pm

#3685136
Reply To: nvarchar(max) or nvarchar(1000)?

CharlesWagner wrote:
Concerning nvarchar (Max), it's an ill-conceived notion to applying this at all except if you hope to have in excess of 3000 characters. Just check indexing and varchar (max),...
--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)

October 1, 2019 at 9:00 pm

#3685135
Reply To: clearing buffer pool

To be honest, you don't have to do a thing. SQL Server will flush the buffer pool based on the work load and what fits into memory all on its...
--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)

October 1, 2019 at 8:47 pm

#3685134
Reply To: * to 1

rishabhdg wrote:
Hi,
both will work perfect. There is no difference wrt performance also. I have seen in some community posts that select 1 is faster than select * but if 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)

October 1, 2019 at 8:25 pm

#3685128
Reply To: After 2014 to 2017 Upgrade, table unused space growing massively.

Crud... ok... it turns out that my other databases are actually being affected. They're just large enough to make it look like the percentage of unused space is quite small. ...
--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)

October 1, 2019 at 6:01 pm

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