Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

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Jeff Moden wrote:
Eric M Russell wrote:
If you are an employee of the US federal government, then your salary history is public information.
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Heh... just one of the many...
--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)

August 27, 2019 at 7:00 pm

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Reply To: Deriving covered date ranges for drug Prescription data (without using a cursor)

I'd definitely be interested in how someone might do this to avoid a Cursor and other forms of RBAR.

Even more interesting would be why the requirement to skew data in...
--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)

August 27, 2019 at 6:54 pm

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Reply To: Tempdb Datafile initial space increasing.

SQL Bandit wrote:
Does the attached screen shot look odd to anyone?
Is the report lying on how much data space is being used?
You're confusing space-used with space_allocated. Also, you're settings appear 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)

August 27, 2019 at 6:47 pm

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Reply To: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

Eric M Russell wrote:
If you are an employee of the US federal government, then your salary history is public information.
Search Federal Employee Salaries
https://www.fedsdatacenter.com
7,040,119 entries
Heh... just one of the many reasons why...
--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)

August 27, 2019 at 6:43 pm

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Reply To: A Self-Tuning Fill Factor Technique for SQL Server – Part 2

Apologies... I posted a reply on the wrong thread and removed 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)

August 27, 2019 at 6:38 pm

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Reply To: How can I convert %5B and %5D to [ and ] in a string

guerinto wrote:
Thanks Jeff. This appears to be exactly what I am looking for. How would I replace the string with a field name called int_ID now? I don't know what...
--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)

August 27, 2019 at 6:30 pm

#3674808
Reply To: Importing Files in Parallel with SSIS

You're correct in saying that loading a table with a Clustered Index in place does mean that you have to only use a single thread to be able to take...
--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)

August 27, 2019 at 5:23 pm

#3674794
Reply To: Importing Files in Parallel with SSIS

Some of the details may be irrelevant to parallel processing but, in my mind anyway, parallel processing during the initial load is just one part of the equation. As 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)

August 26, 2019 at 11:55 am

#3674351
Reply To: Importing Files in Parallel with SSIS

@iposner ,
I'm curious... Did all 10,000 files have precisely the same format? And what was that format? CSV? TSV? Fixed Width Fields? And can you make a guess as 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)

August 25, 2019 at 6:11 pm

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Reply To: Primary Key and Clustered Index

nova wrote:
In my previous post I wasn't making any point at all about portability, which I agree is no necessary consideration in designing a database. My point was just about...
--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)

August 25, 2019 at 4:01 pm

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Reply To: deadlock issue

vsamantha35 wrote:
1. Why a unique non-clustered index ? why not just a non-clustered index for [NI_APPLIED_LOCK_SBL3R8]. Because I don't know the nature of the data if those columns has repeated...
--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)

August 25, 2019 at 3:35 pm

#3674258
Reply To: Primary Key and Clustered Index

nova wrote:
Business data belongs to nominated data controllers and data subjects. Data does not belong to database designers and developers and as a technology professional myself I try to keep...
--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)

August 25, 2019 at 1:52 pm

#3674251
Reply To: Importing Files in Parallel with SSIS

iposner wrote:
Rather than having a master package distribute the list of files to process, another approach is to give each package the rules it needs to process the subset of...
--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)

August 25, 2019 at 3:16 am

#3674223
Reply To: How can I convert %5B and %5D to [ and ] in a string

Just my take on this... single and fairly short formula that does the replacements only once. This, of course, assumes that you'll always be working values where you want 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)

August 25, 2019 at 2:39 am

#3674222
Reply To: SSIS - Adding Columns to existing table and load data

sunshine wrote:
I am working in SSIS (Sql server version 2012) , I have a requirement to add two new columns to a destination table which already has five years of...
--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)

August 25, 2019 at 1:35 am

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