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  • Reply To: Stored Proc:Can I use a parameter of comma separated Id\'s within a WHERE clause?

    Jeffrey Williams wrote:

    You don't have to use replace - the string will be converted (implicitly) to an integer for comparison so any leading/trailing blanks will not affect that conversion.

    You can also...

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  • Reply To: Why I have problem with adding IDENTITY in my table?

    In the original version, try putting brackets around the column name "Kolicina".  It looks like you might have a non-standard character in the name.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Stored Proc:Can I use a parameter of comma separated Id\'s within a WHERE clause?

    I'd stick with temp tables.  And it can't hurt -- and could help -- to use a PK in the temp table (or table variable).


    DROP TABLE IF...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: DATEPART(week ...) displaying wrong week number

    See if these calcs give you results more like what you want.

    Edit: Note that the calcs are completely independent of any/all date and language and DATEFIRST setting and will work...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Query optimization

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    But, changing the clustered index without knowing "the rest of the story" may have a devastating impact on other much more important code.

    If you build nonclustered indexes as necessary,...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: DATEPART(week ...) displaying wrong week number

    If you tell us what you consider to be a "week" -- as we asked for several times -- we could give you code specific to your needs.

    I wouldn't rely...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Query optimization

    Well, obviously, I don't consider it "stupid".  Remember, the DELETEs are almost twice a minute.  If the table has to be scanned in order to do the deletes, that would...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: SELECT * INTO Using a Select Statement

    You're welcome.  Yeah, SQL requires the alias name (the "AS" is not required, I just like to use it but the "any_name" part is required).

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: SELECT * INTO Using a Select Statement

    You need parentheses to "tell" SQL you're using a subquery in the SELECT:

    SELECT * INTO temp_Weekly_Event_Report FROM
    (
    SELECT

    DISTINCT column1 FROM [SQLDatabase].[dbo].[Table] WHERE Event_Source = 1
    ) AS any_name

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Discussion on Normalization and Database Design Concepts

    I strongly object to starting with table structures.  Data normalization is a logical process, tables don't exist yet.  It's all about the data itself.  One should be referencing entities and...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Query optimization

    They have a query that runs 2400+ times a day using that column to DELETE from the table -- I stick with my recommendation, cluster the table first by that...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: SQL Instant File initialization

    Always use IFI unless you have disk data that you really can't have anyone else see via some type of hack.

    Data pages do not need to be zeroed out before...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: How to extract text after a given string to look for.

    I think it can be simplified a bit, while also allowing for another value to be found in the future (maybe 'null'?):

    SELECT
    LongString,
    ...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Adding new column to GROUP BY vs adding MIN or MAX of that column

    Most likely that's still best.

    Btw, do you know for certain that a given product only occurs once on each order?

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: DATEPART(week ...) displaying wrong week number

    Actually, in ISO week, week# is controlled by Thursday being in the week.  (Seriously, you can look it up.)

    So, since this year happens to start on a Friday, ISO week...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

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