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  • RE: tsql with out using cursors

    ZZartin (11/21/2014)


    g.britton (11/21/2014)


    ScottPletcher (11/21/2014)


    You don't "have" to do the FETCH twice. In fact, I never do that, because it's too error prone when the code is changed.

    good point, though...

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  • RE: tsql with out using cursors

    g.britton (11/21/2014)


    ScottPletcher (11/21/2014)


    You don't "have" to do the FETCH twice. In fact, I never do that, because it's too error prone when the code is changed.

    good point, though the...

    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: Holidays and Business Days

    I use a different approach.

    I have a nonbusiness dates control table where one first defines the general and specific nonbusiness dates wanted. Then you call a stored proc 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: tsql with out using cursors

    You don't "have" to do the FETCH twice. In fact, I never do that, because it's too error prone when the code is changed.

    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: Accidental DB Designer ;)

    He already has a partial design in place, I suspect his previous Developer left him with a few ideas, now he's asking if I can help him through.

    First, start over...

    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: SQL DBA knowing user passwords

    Jeff Moden (11/20/2014)


    ZZartin (11/20/2014)


    There's a difference between a service account login used by an application to connect, which a dba should know as the dba is likely the one who...

    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: SQL DBA knowing user passwords

    No, DBAs should not know and definitely not store end user passwords, period.

    App passwords are a different matter, and it can depend on the app. But stored passwords should...

    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: calculating working hours per day for week/month for each employee

    You can't calculate "work hours" without "in" and "out" markers. The work time calc is very easy if you a matching "out" for every "in".

    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: Moving Data to new Filegroup DOESN'T WORK

    In other words, you need to create a new table that explicitly specifies the clause:

    CREATE TABLE ... (

    ...

    TEXTIMAGE_ON [new_filegroup_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".

  • RE: Moving Data to new Filegroup DOESN'T WORK

    It's almost certainly the NTEXT that is the bulk of the data, and you can't move it without recreating the table entirely. Btw, you should change the ntext to...

    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 total from table Item: computed column or group by?

    No, that's true, but you could use it in a view.

    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: advancing dates

    I wasn't not sure what '20140601' was relative to the run date. Is it the current month, the next month, 6 months ago?

    Therefore, I used @month_1 to hold the...

    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: Improve Performance for a View

    swhetsell (11/20/2014)


    ScottPletcher (11/19/2014)


    Probably the big thing is to reduce all the gyrations around UnitLog. Please try the query below. If you tend to restrict UnitLog rows using fldDateTime...

    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: add string WHERE filter that will match everything

    NULL will never be "LIKE" or "=" anything. To allow NULL values, you'd have to add:

    WHERE (column_name LIKE '%' OR column_name IS NULL)

    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: add string WHERE filter that will match everything

    Try "LIKE" '%' rather than "=" :-).

    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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