• Sean Grebey (4/20/2015)


    dwain.c (4/20/2015)


    With regards to your thread's subject:

    The only stupid query questions are the ones you don't ask.

    Lol I feel like it was an easy question but I'm also a programmer having to pretend to also be a dba and a network engineer.

    -- We speak in SQL-tongue here

    DECLARE @LowHangingFruit BIT;

    SELECT @LowHangingFruit=AnyQuestion

    FROM AnyTopic

    WHERE simple <> dumb;


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    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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