Frankly? I've died and gone to heaven. I won the lottery. I asked the prettiest girl to the prom and she said yes. My code compiled the first time. I dropped the toast and it landed butter-side up.
Financially I haven't improved my situation. In some ways it's a little worse. But in every other regard it's night & day.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
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SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning