CELKO (3/31/2015)
Abend? Jeez, now there's a word I haven't heard since I was using IBM 360 JCL!
LOL! Remember the quote: "OS/JCL makes sense after you have studied it for a Year " from our day?
I have never had an ABENDS in Microsoft. Is this a problem?
Actually OS/JCL was one of my fortes back in the day.
Tell me you remember the blue-covered book by Gary Deward Brown (known to be the bible of OS/JCL).
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]
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