Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Backup Strategy For Test Environment

No problem. Thanks for the question and the feedback.
--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)

May 30, 2019 at 10:56 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

jonathan.crawford wrote:
Some people are of the opinion that if you have to go back and forth a few times in email then you are better off picking up the phone...
--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)

May 30, 2019 at 6:59 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
Brandie Tarvin wrote:
Not only would I follow that advice, but I'd have that discussion in person then follow up with a bulleted email of the "requirements" discussed, asking for 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)

May 30, 2019 at 6:25 pm

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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Ok...
Luis Cazares wrote:
I just can't believe some people. I requested our DBA to gather statistics from sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats in production and store them in a non-production database for analysis without compromising permissions....
--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)

May 28, 2019 at 7:49 pm

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Reply To: Backup Strategy For Test Environment

I treat Dev systems exactly the same way that I treat prod systems. Being able to restore to a point in time has save a lot of lost work 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)

May 28, 2019 at 1:55 pm

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Reply To: Reporting Server

Admingod wrote:
16 is the total memory and 12 is assigned to sql.
How big is your largest clustered 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)

May 25, 2019 at 2:02 am

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Reply To: Dynamic query based of business rules

Lidou123 wrote:
Concerning the risk of injunction in the SQL code, I'm thinking of putting a right which prevents deleting the data from the database. What do you think?

Totally inadequate. Either...
--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)

May 25, 2019 at 1:55 am

#3647179
Reply To: What Keeps You Employed?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
I have used data janitor often for other IT people asking.
BWAAA-HAAAA!!!! I have told people that when it comes to data, "I'm the cleaning lady... but I don't do...
--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)

May 24, 2019 at 11:31 pm

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Reply To: Query help on Pivoting on two columns

Heh... I could tell that you weren't offended and were probably having a pretty good guffaw while writing it and, yes, absolutely, you and Sean are outstanding heavy hitters on...
--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)

May 24, 2019 at 2:09 pm

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Reply To: What is going on with my rebuilding index job?

Not sure but, since you went from 2008 R2 to 2017, you're also in the realm of the "improvement" they made to the "Cardinality Estimator" (which happened in 2014, IIRC). ...
--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)

May 24, 2019 at 2:01 pm

#3646979
Reply To: Merge/Split/Switch partition's affect on indexes?

SystemlordAnubis wrote:
Hi All, Thanks for the replies. I have considered aligning the indexes with the partition scheme but as you mentioned Frederico, this requires tuning of the queries using 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)

May 24, 2019 at 1:57 pm

#3646977
Reply To: Merge/Split/Switch partition's affect on indexes?
Just curious...
1. How many rows in this table?
2. How many GB does the Clustered Index occupy?
3. How many partitions are there in the table?
4. Is each partition in a separate...
--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)
May 24, 2019 at 12:53 pm

#3646925
Reply To: How to purposely corrupt a master database

Very cool testing (especially with the ancillary tests) and feedback, Maria. As has been said "One GOOD test is worth a thousand expert opinions" (Werner von Braun). I've not...
--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)

May 24, 2019 at 12:36 pm

#3646919
Reply To: Does rebuilding a clustered index effect non clustered index.

When I was a kid and long before the internet was born, my Dad gave me a piece of advice that applies even more today because of the internet.
"Half 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)

May 24, 2019 at 12:22 pm

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Reply To: run stored procedure from PS script

If you Google for "call stored procedure from powershell", you'll find some good examples to chose from.
--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)

May 24, 2019 at 3:02 am

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