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Data Manipulation Question

  • March 20, 2014 at 5:55 am

    #1698645

    @Dwain,

    Thanks for the awesome compliments. :blush: I just aim to help. I sometimes miss but I'm always aiming. 🙂

    --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)

  • March 20, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    #1698925

    Jeff Moden (3/20/2014)

    @Dwain,

    Thanks for the awesome compliments. :blush: I just aim to help. I sometimes miss but I'm always aiming. 🙂

    I noticed the links problem when I first posted but didn't see how to fix it so checked again and got it working.

    I think my compliments took aim and hit the mark!

    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • March 20, 2014 at 7:15 pm

    #1698927

    Thanks everyone!

    Jeff - I got some reading, coding, and testing this weekend! Thanks for the great posts.

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