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CapnHector SSCoach Points: 16143 More actions · Answer 1

Sean Lange (5/16/2012)
OMG :w00t:
Jeff Moden posted a loop.
There is only darkness now, there is no sunshine. The mayans were correct.
Parden me, I must send out an email blast to our IT department 😀
Please don't step on my dentures.
+1 - ROFL

my thoughts exactly. i figured jeff would have some elaborate tally table solution that was faster than the first tally table solution. as least i now know there are times when a loop is faster but the cases are very slim.

now where are my dentures??:hehe::hehe:

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004415 More actions · Answer 2

capn.hector (5/16/2012)
Sean Lange (5/16/2012)
OMG :w00t:
Jeff Moden posted a loop.
There is only darkness now, there is no sunshine. The mayans were correct.
Parden me, I must send out an email blast to our IT department 😀
Please don't step on my dentures.
+1 - ROFL
my thoughts exactly. i figured jeff would have some elaborate tally table solution that was faster than the first tally table solution. as least i now know there are times when a loop is faster but the cases are very slim.
now where are my dentures??:hehe::hehe:

It's that 0.1% of the 99.9% that I normally don't talk about. 😉

--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:
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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 3

Jeff Moden (5/16/2012)
capn.hector (5/16/2012)
Sean Lange (5/16/2012)
OMG :w00t:
Jeff Moden posted a loop.
There is only darkness now, there is no sunshine. The mayans were correct.
Parden me, I must send out an email blast to our IT department 😀
Please don't step on my dentures.
+1 - ROFL
my thoughts exactly. i figured jeff would have some elaborate tally table solution that was faster than the first tally table solution. as least i now know there are times when a loop is faster but the cases are very slim.
now where are my dentures??:hehe::hehe:
It's that 0.1% of the 99.9% that I normally don't talk about. 😉

So we are the 0.1%???

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RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 4

Whoa! Did anyone else feel that?!? I felt a great .. disturbance in the Force ...

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RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 5

Jeff:

Do you have a test-set that I can use to test against?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004415 More actions · Answer 6

RBarryYoung (5/16/2012)
Jeff:
Do you have a test-set that I can use to test against?

Yep... I'll post it soon. Gotta clean it up a bit.

--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)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004415 More actions · Answer 7

You know me... I don't go into these things blind. I always have test data. Helps me keep my alligator mouth from overloading my humming bird hinny. 😛

--===== Conditionally drop the test table to make reruns in SSMS easier.

IF OBJECT_ID('Tempdb..#MyHead','U') IS NOT NULL

DROP TABLE #MyHead

;

--===== Create and populate the test table with test data on the fly.

-- Takes about 00:02:16 to run on my old single CPU box.

-- (Heh... try THIS with an rCTE or While Loop. ;-) )

SELECT TOP 1000000

EncodedString =

CAST(

(

SELECT TOP (ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))%10+5)

CASE

WHEN ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))%10 = 0 THEN ']['

WHEN ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))%10 BETWEEN 1 AND 2 THEN '['

ELSE ']'

END

+ CHAR(ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))%26 + 97)

FROM sys.all_columns ac3

WHERE ac1.Object_ID <> ac2.Object_ID --I'll bet you wonder why these are here ;-)

OR ac1.Object_ID = ac2.Object_ID

FOR XML PATH ('')

)

AS VARCHAR(50))

INTO #MyHead

FROM sys.all_columns ac1

CROSS JOIN sys.all_columns ac2

;

--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)

RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 8

Jeff Moden (5/16/2012)
You know me... I don't go into these things blind. I always have test data. Helps me keep my alligator mouth from overloading my humming bird hinny. 😛

Yep, that's why I asked. 🙂 Though that description does raise some disturbing genetic questions ... 😀

Thanks..

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004415 More actions · Answer 9

RBarryYoung (5/17/2012)
Though that description does raise some disturbing genetic questions ... 😀

BWAAA-HAAAA!!!!... dunno 'bout all that... have you taken a good look at your most recent avator? 😛

--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)

RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 10

Jeff Moden (5/17/2012)
RBarryYoung (5/17/2012)
Though that description does raise some disturbing genetic questions ... 😀
BWAAA-HAAAA!!!!... dunno 'bout all that... have you taken a good look at your most recent avator? 😛

Ahh, the miracle of over-medication... :sick:

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Eugene Elutin SSC Guru Points: 59322 More actions · Answer 11

Jeff Moden (5/16/2012)
You know me... I don't go into these things blind. I always have test data. Helps me keep my alligator mouth from overloading my humming bird hinny. 😛
...

I take it for granted (from you), that the test between scalar udf (with loop) and table valued one did show that the scalar one is more appropriate in this case. Have you tried CLR function?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004415 More actions · Answer 12

Eugene Elutin (5/18/2012)
Jeff Moden (5/16/2012)
You know me... I don't go into these things blind. I always have test data. Helps me keep my alligator mouth from overloading my humming bird hinny. 😛
...
I take it for granted (from you), that the test between scalar udf (with loop) and table valued one did show that the scalar one is more appropriate in this case. Have you tried CLR function?

To be absolutely honest, I've not tried an iTVF for this particular one because it's nearly identical to another that I did test. The other one was an "Initial Caps" function that beat the Tally Table/CTE/STUFF and Tally CTE Split/XML Reassemble methods quite handily.

What I didn't want to do was to post either of those solutions too early because it might change someones approach on it all. Someone might be able to come up with a wiz-bang iTVF on it using an approach that none of us have considered if I've not contaminated their thought process. It's like what Dwaine C. did with the "n-tuple" problem... he came up with a way with an rCTE that I wouldn't have considered. I don't believe it's the fastest method (not done testing yet) but it's different and has potential.

--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)

Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86978 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden (5/18/2012)

It's like what Dwaine C. did with the "n-tuple" problem... he came up with a way with an rCTE that I wouldn't have considered. I don't believe it's the fastest method (not done testing yet) but it's different and has potential.

Thanks for the compliment Jeff. Coming from you it really means something to me.

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