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Working Better Under Pressure

  • April 17, 2026 at 12:00 am

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  • April 17, 2026 at 8:04 am

    #4771318

    There is no magic; it is what we are taught to focus on.  The original two SQL Server 6.5 courses (admin & developer) showed us execution plans, Perfmon, profiler and the SET STATISTICS commands.

    Back at work after the courses, the importance of these lessons became obvious.  Speaking to sysadmins and infrastructure folk, it was much the same for them.

    I've taken various programming courses throughout my career.  Apart from Ivor Horton's C++ courses teaching me about the different types of memory, storage and the lifecycle of objects, I cannot recall any particular focus on performance.  It was mainly how to satisfy functional requirements rather than non-functional requirements.

    • Functional requirements get you the credit.
    • Non-functional requirements get you nothing, but when there is a failure there is plenty of blame to go around.

     

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  • April 17, 2026 at 9:19 pm

    #4771738

    There is definitely no magic.

  • April 19, 2026 at 2:38 pm

    #4773447

    IT's Ok

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