Please vote for the "built in Tally Table" function.

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Please vote for the "built in Tally Table" function.

Jeff Moden

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November 24, 2014 at 10:17 pm

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Please see the following CONNECT item by Erland Sommarskog.
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback/Details/258733
Also notice that the item is still listed as ACTIVE and, in 3 months, the suggestion will be 8 years old and Microsoft still hasn't seen fit to boost the priority on this.
Please lend a helping hand here. If you use a Tally or Numbers table, take a minute out to vote this one up. If you don't know what a Tally or Numbers table actually is, please do yourself a favor and learn how to use it. It'll change your life. See the following article for what it is and how it can be used as a very high speed replacement for certain types of loops and then vote it up. I'd personally love to see this one top the charts for vote ups.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/62867/
Thanks for your help, folks.
--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)

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 1

Voted.

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 2

Eirikur Eiriksson

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November 25, 2014 at 1:01 am

#1760701

+1 (vote)

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks Koen and Eirikur!

How about it folks? There a 1.7 million of you out there. Can we get a few more votes on this important subject? Thanks. 🙂

--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)

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 4

Lynn Pettis

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November 26, 2014 at 2:57 am

#1761014

Voted!

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23001 More actions · Answer 5

Voted.

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 6

My vote made the count 147.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 7

I decided to down vote this one. Everybody should just go to Oracle where they already have the functionality. (devil)

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 8

+1 voted

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 9

SQLRNNR (11/26/2014)
I decided to down vote this one. Everybody should just go to Oracle where they already have the functionality. (devil)

😛

--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)

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 10

I think you're going to get some votes on this one, Jeff. Hey, it's coming up on its 8-year anniversary in February and it has the support of more than one MVP. You can't expect Microsoft to act too quickly on something like this. 😛

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 11

Jeff Moden (11/26/2014)
SQLRNNR (11/26/2014)
I decided to down vote this one. Everybody should just go to Oracle where they already have the functionality. (devil)
😛

BWAAAA-HAAAAA-HAAAA!!!! I thought you were kidding... Note about the vote but about Oracle... you recommended a "DUAL" table??? :-D:-P:hehe: I sure do hope they don't take that part of the suggestion.

--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)

LucyGlorius SSC Enthusiast Points: 120 More actions · Answer 12

LucyGlorius

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November 26, 2014 at 10:24 am

#1761141

Voted - now it's at 156.

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden (11/26/2014)
Jeff Moden (11/26/2014)
SQLRNNR (11/26/2014)
I decided to down vote this one. Everybody should just go to Oracle where they already have the functionality. (devil)
😛
BWAAAA-HAAAAA-HAAAA!!!! I thought you were kidding... Note about the vote but about Oracle... you recommended a "DUAL" table??? :-D:-P:hehe: I sure do hope they don't take that part of the suggestion.

I'm sure there's a table valued function in a RDBMS, but I can't remember which one is it or how is it called. It was mentioned once in a forum post. It wasn't Oracle and certainly wasn't the dual table.

Luis C.
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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 14

Jeff Moden (11/26/2014)
Jeff Moden (11/26/2014)
SQLRNNR (11/26/2014)
I decided to down vote this one. Everybody should just go to Oracle where they already have the functionality. (devil)
😛
BWAAAA-HAAAAA-HAAAA!!!! I thought you were kidding... Note about the vote but about Oracle... you recommended a "DUAL" table??? :-D:-P:hehe: I sure do hope they don't take that part of the suggestion.

Just an example that the big red machine has had it for some time and despite being a single value table, they have some very fast "numbers" tables that are built from it.

That said, they really don't need a DUAL table. A tally table is appropriate.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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