New SQL Server 2022 Functions

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New SQL Server 2022 Functions

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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November 22, 2024 at 12:00 am

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 1

GENERATE_SERIES() has a "little" problem for me. I generate shedloads of test data and the following problem means that I'll not be giving up the fnTally function any time soon because I'm sure they'll never fix it.

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/generate_series-breaks-minimal-logging

As for them finally fixing the STRING_SPLIT() function to return the element position ordinals, I'm tickled that they finally got around to it but I cannot believe it took them 3 releases over 6 years to do so. 😉

--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)

Bob Razumich SSCrazy Points: 2142 More actions · Answer 2

A thought on Steve's joke about new functions being actually 2 years old. I imagine a lot of sites that have bigger than average installations of SQL Server that are managed either locally or on a cloud service may not yet be running 2022 yet. I know that's still the situation at my previous employer. I imagine that in the year since I retired plans may be in place to start upgrading to 2022 sooner than later, but it does become a large effort if working on systems that are required to be "always on" for customer use. Thus, it's not too farfetched to think of added functions as "new".

And then I laughed because in the same daily newsletter was an article for SQL Server 2025. With its own set of mouth-watering new goodies. It never ends, I imagine 😃

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 3

hard to keep up. I laughed at the session, but it makes sense. Lots of people just don't have time (or make time) to check out new things. I should re-run a few "new" things from 2019/2022 as there are likely developers not using them.