Jeff Moden

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Reply To: Best Practice for character replacement within Table.Column

YSLGuru wrote:
Is there a better/more efficient way to do what the below does? It is replacing several characters that are known to be problematic for this table/column(s) with a space.
BONUS...
--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)

November 23, 2023 at 3:59 am

#4332805
Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
Registration isn't open, but you can sign up: https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/twentyfour/
That way you can get the lowest price when it opens.
I do think they're pretty good about moving registration 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)

November 22, 2023 at 3:47 am

#4332164
Reply To: Pivot data without aggregating
Just a suggestion... Keep It Super Simple and flexible at the same time.
Here's the test table (not part of the solution):
```
   DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #TestTable;
GO
 SELECT *
  ...
```
--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)
November 22, 2023 at 3:36 am

#4332161
Reply To: FAIL_PAGE_ALLOCATION

andreas.kreuzberg wrote:
We do Statistic Updates every 6h, maybe we should do this more often?
Hopefully, you're REALLY selective about which stats get updated.
--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)

November 21, 2023 at 1:51 am

#4331418
Reply To: Scheduling SQL Agent Jobs on Alternating Weeks

Actually, it could be simplified even more. Since it always tries to run on Thursdays, we don't need to figure that out. We just need to figure out if 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)

November 21, 2023 at 1:41 am

#4331415
Reply To: Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Totally agreed.
--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)

November 20, 2023 at 11:08 pm

#4331372
Reply To: Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
12am full to 2am diff is 26 hours for the first one, so no, not 24 hours.
In terms of your last question, changing logins makes changes in master. Changing...
--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)

November 20, 2023 at 9:48 pm

#4331344
Reply To: How to Efficiently Find and Remove Duplicates in a Large SQL Database?

As a bit o a sidebar, I've found that the cutover point between DELETES and COPY to a new table is actually about (depending on the table, of course) only...
--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)

November 20, 2023 at 9:43 pm

#4331342
Reply To: Scheduling SQL Agent Jobs on Alternating Weeks

Hadn't thought about that. Thanks, Scott.
--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)

November 20, 2023 at 7:55 pm

#4331281
Reply To: SQL Window Functions Series: RANK() and DENSE_RANK()

Looks like they fixed 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)

November 20, 2023 at 7:42 pm

#4331276
Reply To: How to Efficiently Find and Remove Duplicates in a Large SQL Database?

Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Heh... pretty typical for things like this. The OP asks a question and then never participates in their own thread. While some great code has been posted, there...
--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)

November 20, 2023 at 7:41 pm

#4331269
Reply To: Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

lan2022nguyen wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Mostly but, personally, I wouldn't tolerate an RPO of 24 hours for any important data. Why are these databases in the SIMPLE Recovery Model?
these are read-only dbs. there'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)

November 20, 2023 at 4:29 pm

#4331171
Reply To: How to Efficiently Find and Remove Duplicates in a Large SQL Database?

Heh... pretty typical for things like this. The OP asks a question and then never participates in their own thread. While some great code has been posted, there are still...
--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)

November 20, 2023 at 4:03 pm

#4331168
Reply To: Replacing last few characters with another value.

Tava wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Although there is a solution provided to the OP that works, I have to ask what the original reason is for trying to build a string based GUID...
--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)

November 20, 2023 at 4:30 am

#4330818
Reply To: Scheduling SQL Agent Jobs on Alternating Weeks

ildjarn.is.dead wrote:
The worst schema I had to implement: A customer wanted us to reboot the server for patches on the first friday of the month around 1am.
How do you schedule...
--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)

November 20, 2023 at 1:53 am

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