I wish they would just unify Code and ADS. I have ADS, but because I am often working in Powershell/XML/JS/etc and we do a lot of code generation and I have a whole build and release process, I just use Code or Visual Studio because that's what I always used for those bits.

A chairde - Morning all!

Morning

@Vérace FYI ^

Morning

@PaulWhite i didn't know you also had mysql authority

@ErikDarling Strictly mariadb

It's kinda embarrassing how backward T-SQL is

"kinda"

*awfully

Anyway it's obviously Akina's answer, I just fleshed it out with an example.

It was surprisingly easy, and the documentation is quite good.

I was tripped up by mariadb not using + or || for string concatenation.

I liked your comment about how long it took STRING_SPLIT to get the ordinal btw.

well i would miss typing reverse reverse substring charindex charindex len len blah blah boo hoo

good ol' t-sql

yeah really would miss that heaps

@PaulWhite i'm glad you're back to following the most important sql server blog on the internet

I had missed a bunch of quality material it seems so more fool me I guess

the highest quality

That HP and insert performance from GS needs fixing

Not that, as you say, Microsoft will understand why anyone would generate 1M rows

I wonder how long the intern has left

was my assessment of round robin v. demand partitioning there anywhere close to reality

it was in the right general area of the map

not a short walk, but not a train ride either

if there's anything to add that would make it more correct i am open

round robin still assembles rows into packets before push transfer, but demand literally pulls a row at a time

I'd need to do some analysis to work out exactly why your demo is as slow as it is. I suspect a lack of bulk operations, or insufficient buffering, but that's just guessing. Equally likely something just isn't hooked up right internally at this stage.

I generally don't worry much about perf in CTPs.

Mostly because it's so low reward. P much every time I've pointed out perf issues in past pre-release builds, I just ended up wasting some dev's time explaining how they were aware and providing some details about an enhancement that already existed in the code base, but not public yet. Not hugely constructive use of anyone's time.

i've heard that code was copy and pasted from another microsoft product

I mean you might be right, but I haven't heard that

Perhaps they CTRL-C CTRL-V from Stack Overflow like all good devs

i'll give you a hint

it's both a database and a web browser

A table hint?

(the name)

Access?

Nah ok Edge

But sure, it's a common code base

i guess it could have been SSMS too

wild huh

Also, somewhat related, how exciting is Ledger

Yeah I suppose (part of) SSMS is now technically retired

@PaulWhite are you playing the joker

🤡

hm links to your website doesn't expand to a card on Twitter. Time for better web devs.

i'm on my third set

Probably doesn't help your site doesn't appear to be visible to Twitter rn

cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

> ERROR: Failed to fetch page due to: HttpConnectionTimeout

what the hell

not sure if you got to it yet, but no surprise here: erikdarlingdata.com/sql-server/…

yeah I saw that

as you say, not surprising

i wonder why this stuff keeps falling into the same traps

prob EF's fault

@PaulWhite you are right, not at the default settings. || can be used if the sql_mode is set appropriately.

dbfiddle.uk/…

@ypercubeᵀᴹ yep saw that in the docs

Otherwise, the default || is a synonym of OR

Honestly I don't mind the CONCAT. Using + or || always seemed odd to me.

Whatever the SQL Standard might say.

@PaulWhite i've been assured that this is the best economy america has ever seen and we just don't know it

@PaulWhite yeah, agree

@ErikDarling Yes I think I heard Uncle Joe say something like that

it even has the nice concat_ws() function, where you can choose a separator add between itmes

Indeed

Thanks for stealing my thunder! :-) Yeah, I meant to get round to the SUBSTRING_INDEX today, but difficulties (Mum is in hospital and there are issues) - but you got it wrong - slightly! The OP's data begins with a "<" also - TRIM(LEADING '<' FROM SUBSTRING_INDEX(field, '> - <')) (or something along those lines - can't test - starving, going to make myself lunch - haven't eaten since 05:30... - now 15:30) does it nicely and is a bit more elegant, n'est-ce pas?

@Vérace-СлаваУкраїні Yeah I don't the < and > are part of the data, that's just how the question was framed.

People often use < and > to indicate a logical term

I took it as a literal - question as asked!

Sure, it is a possible interpretation, just not mine.

The example I added is also just an example.

Some people find code easier to understand than the written description.

It's just what Akina said, but now also expressed in code.

So no thunder was misappropriated IMO.

Sure - many questions here are open to interpretation. Plus, if you read the spec, you can have all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff in an email - just that no sane person would do that! Ooops - expecting end-users to input sane values... hmmm... I always put in code in my answers when appropriate.

There's one user (I won't say who) on SO who has many points but just plops a solution down - no explanation, no nothing. Because of the huge number of answers, the shotgun approach works for them - I prefer the "teach a man to fish" approach rather than just "throwing a man a fish". It's often helpful for me also - as the only way that one can be sure that one understands a topic is if one can explain it (reasonably) simply.

Quite so, but this was the opposite case: explanation, but no code example

I do understand that Akina does not write English well

I hadn't mentioned SUBSTRING_INDEX in my answer (yet) - I was going to - may get around to it!

I replied to you here - and mentioned that on further investigation, I had realised that SUBSTRING_INDEX provided a more elegant solution than the non-regex one that I had given.

Yes I recall

I gave you most of 24h, but people do forget and I enjoyed writing some MariaDB code

You are most welcome to expand your answer of course

I will say that Akina's answer predates yours by a couple of hours, not that it really matters

(it was originally a comment)

I'll modify my answer tonight before I go to bed - as I said, I'm under time pressure at the minute and some things are (gasp of horror from audience...) more important than dba.se! :-)

As you wish

There's no hurry, Database Administrators will still be here next week

Assuming the world hasn't blown itself up by then

If it has we can all die knowing we made a difference for free

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this is the work of the devil

@ErikDarling 👿

I've been mostly using that style for years though

When I can be bothered to name indexes at all

Anyway this is all a bit rich coming from someone who names his demo tables fart

in a database named crap

right

@ErikDarling Your site is accessible now, but there are no card tags

Tried with erikdarlingdata.com/sql-server/…

well then

hth

it helped make me angry

so there's that

For sql.kiwi, I added the following to my page theme:

<meta content='summary_large_image' name='twitter:card'/>

to where?

HTML theme definition HEAD section

So it appears on every page and uses the default image for every post without me doing anything special

Young @JoshDarnell could probably help

Guide at developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/cards/guides/…

Josh: Erik's twitter cards have stopped working

yeah i'm poking around in filezilla and i have no idea

There will usually be a number of other meta tags

i have enough web problems

i am not creating more

Fair enough

I am increasingly convinced no one knows what they're doing in web development

basic concepts like search and navigation seem to have been cast aside in favor of making everything pretty

Most sites I visit aren't even pretty

I mean they're ok for the most part

But not what you'd call beautiful

Mine included of course, but I invest literally nothing in it

i like your site

i can find what i want on it

it has good information

when i hit the back button it takes me back exactly one page

seems ideal

ha ha I saw your tweet about the back button

also thanks

@Vérace-СлаваУкраїні is his first name the same as a known gin brand?

It might be! ;-)

I wish I had content so good that the site wouldn't matter