Comments for SQL Fool http://sqlfool.com Self-Professed SQL Scripting Junkie! Fri, 04 May 2012 08:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Tidbits I Discovered Today… by Thomas Rushton http://sqlfool.com/2012/05/things-i-discovered-today/comment-page-1/#comment-7697 Thomas Rushton Fri, 04 May 2012 08:30:44 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=1624#comment-7697 Hi Michelle You might want to check out Jes "@grrl_geek" Borland's post on "making SSMS awesome" - http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DBAdmin/MSSQLServerAdmin/tips-and-tricks-to-make There's a good few odds and ends in there that I find really useful. Hi Michelle

You might want to check out Jes “@grrl_geek” Borland’s post on “making SSMS awesome” – http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DBAdmin/MSSQLServerAdmin/tips-and-tricks-to-make

There’s a good few odds and ends in there that I find really useful.

]]> Comment on Tidbits I Discovered Today… by Michelle Ufford http://sqlfool.com/2012/05/things-i-discovered-today/comment-page-1/#comment-7692 Michelle Ufford Thu, 03 May 2012 14:39:10 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=1624#comment-7692 @IL - haha, I love it! :) As for the "Insert spaces option," yes, I know it and love it. It's one of the very first things I change any time I install SSMS. But no, I didn't know about the option to force SSMS to save to Unicode-Codepage 1200! Thanks for that! @Michael - Thank you, sir! I often procrastinate on blogging because I think that something is "not good enough," but lately I've decided to just put it all out there. That's in no small part due to my recent investigation of Google Analytics stats. Some of my "little tips" posts get far more hits than any of my complex posts. Who woulda thunk it? :) As for INFORMATION_SCHEMA.*, I agree that they are more user-friendly than the catalog views. I just don't end up using them that much because they're missing object_id, which I typically need to join to other views (i.e. sys.partitions & sys.allocation_units). @IL – haha, I love it! :) As for the “Insert spaces option,” yes, I know it and love it. It’s one of the very first things I change any time I install SSMS. But no, I didn’t know about the option to force SSMS to save to Unicode-Codepage 1200! Thanks for that!

@Michael – Thank you, sir! I often procrastinate on blogging because I think that something is “not good enough,” but lately I’ve decided to just put it all out there. That’s in no small part due to my recent investigation of Google Analytics stats. Some of my “little tips” posts get far more hits than any of my complex posts. Who woulda thunk it? :) As for INFORMATION_SCHEMA.*, I agree that they are more user-friendly than the catalog views. I just don’t end up using them that much because they’re missing object_id, which I typically need to join to other views (i.e. sys.partitions & sys.allocation_units).

]]> Comment on Tidbits I Discovered Today… by Michael J. Swart http://sqlfool.com/2012/05/things-i-discovered-today/comment-page-1/#comment-7691 Michael J. Swart Thu, 03 May 2012 12:31:14 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=1624#comment-7691 Love these kinds of posts! They're more useful to me in my day to day work then 90% of the other posts in my news feeds. Let's see, tidbits, tidbits... Okay, I've got one: I've recently started using INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES instead of sys.columns and sys.tables because in one view, we've got db, schema, table, column and type names without having to join with the other system tables. Love these kinds of posts! They’re more useful to me in my day to day work then 90% of the other posts in my news feeds.

Let’s see, tidbits, tidbits… Okay, I’ve got one:

I’ve recently started using INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES instead of sys.columns and sys.tables because in one view, we’ve got db, schema, table, column and type names without having to join with the other system tables.

]]> Comment on Tidbits I Discovered Today… by IL http://sqlfool.com/2012/05/things-i-discovered-today/comment-page-1/#comment-7686 IL Thu, 03 May 2012 06:08:35 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=1624#comment-7686 Hi Michelle, Would this picture http://i46.tinypic.com/2dj9w1f.png for Convert Tabs to Spaces and vice versa is of right direction to yours? :) Actually, I've shortened these just to images (Default style) and SSMS looks prettier now. Thanks! More serious questions: 1) You've mentioned on twitter about converting tabs automatically, but do you mean Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Transact-SQL -> Tabs -> Insert spaces option? 2) Do you know the option in SSMS to force it to save SQL files in Unicode-Codepage 1200? It is always set to ANSI page for new files by default. Hi Michelle,
Would this picture http://i46.tinypic.com/2dj9w1f.png for Convert Tabs to Spaces and vice versa is of right direction to yours? :) Actually, I’ve shortened these just to images (Default style) and SSMS looks prettier now. Thanks!
More serious questions:
1) You’ve mentioned on twitter about converting tabs automatically, but do you mean Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Transact-SQL -> Tabs -> Insert spaces option?
2) Do you know the option in SSMS to force it to save SQL files in Unicode-Codepage 1200? It is always set to ANSI page for new files by default.

]]> Comment on Scientific Notation with IsNumeric() by Louie Bao http://sqlfool.com/2008/10/scientific-notation-with-isnumeric/comment-page-1/#comment-7676 Louie Bao Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:11:01 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=40#comment-7676 IsNumeric returns true not only for scientific notations, but also monetary symbols as well, please refer to my blog on this topic http://www.louiebao.net/blog/200910/isnumeric/ IsNumeric returns true not only for scientific notations, but also monetary symbols as well, please refer to my blog on this topic http://www.louiebao.net/blog/200910/isnumeric/

]]> Comment on BCP Script Generator by Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 20/04/12 - John Sansom SQL Server DBA http://sqlfool.com/2012/04/bcp-script-generator/comment-page-1/#comment-7658 Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 20/04/12 - John Sansom SQL Server DBA Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:03:02 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=1598#comment-7658 [...] BCP Script Generator - Sharing the results of her recent BCP adventures, Michelle Ufford(Blog|Twitter) provides us with another one of her valuable scripts. [...] [...] BCP Script Generator - Sharing the results of her recent BCP adventures, Michelle Ufford(Blog|Twitter) provides us with another one of her valuable scripts. [...]

]]> Comment on BCP Script Generator by Michelle Ufford http://sqlfool.com/2012/04/bcp-script-generator/comment-page-1/#comment-7651 Michelle Ufford Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:45:35 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=1598#comment-7651 @Rowland Thanks! @David Glad I could help! Good luck with the project. :) @Todd Yeah, it's hard to find time with a 5-month old, but he's starting to sleep a little bit better at night, which means I'm markedly less zombie-like. Which hopefully means more blogging. :) It's still early in the data migration phase, but I can tell you that we've seen a huge performance improvement on the couple of marts that have already been migrated. The actual migration process is a whole other story... :) @Rowland Thanks!

@David Glad I could help! Good luck with the project. :)

@Todd Yeah, it’s hard to find time with a 5-month old, but he’s starting to sleep a little bit better at night, which means I’m markedly less zombie-like. Which hopefully means more blogging. :) It’s still early in the data migration phase, but I can tell you that we’ve seen a huge performance improvement on the couple of marts that have already been migrated. The actual migration process is a whole other story… :)

]]> Comment on BCP Script Generator by Todd Everett http://sqlfool.com/2012/04/bcp-script-generator/comment-page-1/#comment-7645 Todd Everett Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:39:49 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=1598#comment-7645 Thanks for this great script. Glad to see you are having a little more time to blog and I appreciate you sharing the scripts you develop - they are always useful. How are you finding Teradata stacks up against SQL Server for data marts? We use SQL Server for all of our data marts where I work but Teradata is always calling.... Thanks for this great script. Glad to see you are having a little more time to blog and I appreciate you sharing the scripts you develop – they are always useful. How are you finding Teradata stacks up against SQL Server for data marts? We use SQL Server for all of our data marts where I work but Teradata is always calling….

]]> Comment on Index Defrag Script, v4.1 by Phil http://sqlfool.com/2011/06/index-defrag-script-v4-1/comment-page-2/#comment-7638 Phil Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:47:22 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=1544#comment-7638 when i run the script to create it first time i get: Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure dba_indexDefrag_sp, Line 464 Incorrect syntax near 'OBJECT_ID'. when i run the script to create it first time i get:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure dba_indexDefrag_sp, Line 464
Incorrect syntax near ‘OBJECT_ID’.

]]> Comment on BCP Script Generator by david hay http://sqlfool.com/2012/04/bcp-script-generator/comment-page-1/#comment-7625 david hay Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:03:40 +0000 http://sqlfool.com/?p=1598#comment-7625 Talk about timing! I just got handed a BCP project, this will help so much! Thank you! Talk about timing! I just got handed a BCP project, this will help so much! Thank you!

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