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  • Reply To: Send me an email if this job run longer than 30 minutes

    Not exactly.

    The first step in the main job is to start another job that will check on the first job, like this:

    EXEC msdb..sp_start_job 'Automated Claim Closing Monitor'

    The main job then...

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  • Reply To: Send me an email if this job run longer than 30 minutes

    Have the job you want to monitor immediately start a second job that will notify you if the run time is exceeded.  You could even have the main job pass...

    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: Previous row where condition exists

    Yes, I love the compactness and "slickness" of the code, but for large number of rows, performance-wise it can be a relative disaster.

    Of course, in general, sorting is big overhead...

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  • Reply To: Using Pivot in SQL

    Steve Collins wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Here's a simple CASE, what wouldn't this take embedded IIFs?

    Idk why don't you give it a try and let us know

    I never use IIF, so wouldn't waste my...

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  • Reply To: Using Pivot in SQL

    IIF is what leads to wordiness and complexity.  Here's a simple CASE, what wouldn't this take embedded IIFs?  [I admit this might be easier since I think(?), since I write...

    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: Previous row where condition exists

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    It has no dependencies because it sorts the values again (as I understood the q).  If you have a lot of data that has already been sorted, 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: Using Pivot in SQL

    IIF is a corruption of SQL syntax to make other developers feel more comfortable.

    A terrible idea, in my opinion.  Oracle's done the same thing to PL/SQL (Oracle equivalent of T-SQL),...

    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: Using Pivot in SQL

    Gotta admit, I'm not a fan of PIVOT nor UNPIVOT.  I just don't care for the syntax / approach.  It seems counter-intuitive to me, naturally YMMV.

    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: Previous row where condition exists

    It has no dependencies because it sorts the values again (as I understood the q).  If you have a lot of data that has already been sorted, that may not...

    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: Previous row where condition exists

    Here's code that relies on the sequential ordering of the ID column of the underlying data set.  You could generate ID using a SEQUENCE if nothing else to insure it...

    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: Is there a tool to automate SQL tuning and review?

    I'm not aware of anything that does that, and certainly not well.

    For a SQL instance managed by Azure, there is some index tuning automatically done, but it's pretty limited.

    You can...

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  • Reply To: Using NOLOCK in UPDATE or DELETE

    Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    It's both reasons that it's faster.  To pretend that the shared locks on rows don't take any time is just not true.  It may be small overhead, but...

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  • Reply To: Update and Joins

    Great, glad it helped.

    Btw, note that you must ALWAYS use the alias in the UPDATE statement when using a join in an UPDATE.

    --WRONG!!

    UPDATE Brs --<<--WRONG!! MUST be (alias) B

    SET HrsHKB...

    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: Using NOLOCK in UPDATE or DELETE

    Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:

    Grant Fritchey wrote:

    Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:

    Grant Fritchey wrote:

    READUNCOMMITTED and NOLOCK cannot be specified for tables modified by insert, update, or delete operations. The SQL Server query optimizer ignores the READUNCOMMITTED...

    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: Recursive Select runs slow

    Thanks all.

    Yeah, normally I too try to avoid loops, but in this case, it's probably better just to loop.

    For absolute max efficiency, you can uncomment the UPDATE #bundles statement, although...

    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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