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  • RE: Get blank ('') in datediff function

    Finally, there's the cost to fix each issue.

    Once people are properly convinced that NOLOCK is a bad idea in many, many cases, they simply remove those specific bytes -- "WITH...

    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".

  • RE: Get blank ('') in datediff function

    Lynn Pettis (9/1/2015)


    Sean Lange (9/1/2015)


    ScottPletcher (9/1/2015)


    Honestly, though, I still think that overall the "use identity as the 'default' clustering key" myth is even more damaging than an "almost always use...

    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".

  • RE: Get blank ('') in datediff function

    Lynn Pettis (9/1/2015)


    Sean Lange (9/1/2015)


    ScottPletcher (9/1/2015)


    Honestly, though, I still think that overall the "use identity as the 'default' clustering key" myth is even more damaging than an "almost always use...

    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".

  • RE: Get blank ('') in datediff function

    Jacob Wilkins (9/1/2015)


    ScottPletcher (9/1/2015)


    Jacob Wilkins (9/1/2015)


    I know it's rather off-topic, but it's an interesting diversion, so I thought I'd just chime in on NOLOCK and temporary tables.

    SELECT queries against temporary...

    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".

  • RE: Get blank ('') in datediff function

    Sean Lange (9/1/2015)


    ScottPletcher (9/1/2015)


    Sean Lange (9/1/2015)


    ScottPletcher (9/1/2015)


    Sean Lange (9/1/2015)


    Munabhai (9/1/2015)


    drop table #temp

    CREATE TABLE #TEMP

    (

    date1 DATE,

    date2 DATE

    )

    insert into #TEMP values

    ('2011-06-18','2011-06-29'),('2010-12-09','2010-12-15'),('2011-03-04','2011-03-16'),('2010-02-09','2010-07-08'),('2010-03-10','2010-03-31'),

    ('2010-03-31',null),('2014-08-01',null),(null,'2010-07-08'),('2010-07-08',null),(null,'2014-05-23'),

    ('2011-02-09','2011-02-02'),('2011-06-22','2011-06-14'),(null,null),(null,null)

    SELECT date1, date2,

    CASE

    WHEN (ISNULL(date1, '1900-01-01') = '1900-01-01' AND ISNULL(date2, '1900-01-01')...

    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".

  • RE: Get blank ('') in datediff function

    Jacob Wilkins (9/1/2015)


    I know it's rather off-topic, but it's an interesting diversion, so I thought I'd just chime in on NOLOCK and temporary tables.

    SELECT queries against temporary tables typically only...

    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".

  • RE: Get blank ('') in datediff function

    Sean Lange (9/1/2015)


    ScottPletcher (9/1/2015)


    Sean Lange (9/1/2015)


    Munabhai (9/1/2015)


    drop table #temp

    CREATE TABLE #TEMP

    (

    date1 DATE,

    date2 DATE

    )

    insert into #TEMP values

    ('2011-06-18','2011-06-29'),('2010-12-09','2010-12-15'),('2011-03-04','2011-03-16'),('2010-02-09','2010-07-08'),('2010-03-10','2010-03-31'),

    ('2010-03-31',null),('2014-08-01',null),(null,'2010-07-08'),('2010-07-08',null),(null,'2014-05-23'),

    ('2011-02-09','2011-02-02'),('2011-06-22','2011-06-14'),(null,null),(null,null)

    SELECT date1, date2,

    CASE

    WHEN (ISNULL(date1, '1900-01-01') = '1900-01-01' AND ISNULL(date2, '1900-01-01') = '1900-01-01') ...

    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".

  • RE: Get blank ('') in datediff function

    Sean Lange (9/1/2015)


    Munabhai (9/1/2015)


    drop table #temp

    CREATE TABLE #TEMP

    (

    date1 DATE,

    date2 DATE

    )

    insert into #TEMP values

    ('2011-06-18','2011-06-29'),('2010-12-09','2010-12-15'),('2011-03-04','2011-03-16'),('2010-02-09','2010-07-08'),('2010-03-10','2010-03-31'),

    ('2010-03-31',null),('2014-08-01',null),(null,'2010-07-08'),('2010-07-08',null),(null,'2014-05-23'),

    ('2011-02-09','2011-02-02'),('2011-06-22','2011-06-14'),(null,null),(null,null)

    SELECT date1, date2,

    CASE

    WHEN (ISNULL(date1, '1900-01-01') = '1900-01-01' AND ISNULL(date2, '1900-01-01') = '1900-01-01') THEN 0

    WHEN...

    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".

  • RE: Filtering Common Table Expression within View

    Instead of a view, look into creating an inline table-valued function. That can function essentially as a parameterized view and is very efficient at doing so.

    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".

  • RE: Finding all relations between tables. How ?

    select

    OBJECT_NAME(constraint_object_id) constraint_naam

    , constraint_column_id as constraint_column_sequence

    , OBJECT_NAME(parent_object_id) Child_table

    , parent_column_id

    , COL_NAME(parent_object_id, parent_column_id) as child_column

    , OBJECT_NAME(referenced_object_id) Parent_table

    , referenced_column_id

    , COL_NAME(parent_object_id, parent_column_id) as Parent_column

    into ##C

    from sys.foreign_key_columns

    --order by constraint_naam, constraint_column_sequence

    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".

  • RE: Date format not converting to dd/mm/yy

    When you store dates as character, store them as:

    YYYYMMDD

    which always works under any/all SQL settings.

    For the current data, you put it into that format to check 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".

  • RE: Getting filepath from a SQL Filetable

    The slowness must be in one of the functions. We would need to see the function code to tune those.

    But you can get rid of the local variables for...

    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".

  • RE: Help Needed in Performance Tuning

    If the tables are part of a live system, I'd always want to see at least the current missing index stats and index usage stats from SQL itself (cardinality can...

    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".

  • RE: Help Needed in Performance Tuning

    I, too, await what Jeff will propose as the best method to identity the proper clustered indexes, since we clearly very differently weigh what's most important in that regard. ...

    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".

  • RE: Get list of all the tables used in multiple SQL scripts

    Create a new, work db. Create 275 procs from the existing code. Hopefully that's as as adding "CREATE PROCEDURE proc_NNN AS " to the beginning of the code...

    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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