Jeff Moden (8/27/2012)
BWAAA-HAAAA!!!! In the truest sense, it is, in fact, homework. It's a privately owned laptop for home use that I'm setting up. Thought I'd warm it up with 2k8 before I download 2k12 from my MSDN account.I REALLY appreciate the "try", Dwain. The day's coffee is starting to wear off and I guess just talking with a friend on SSC snapped me out of my stupor. Thanks, again.
As a side bar, I remember having to talk with an operator to get a hold of someone local on the phone. Now, I'm getting help from someone halfway across the world faster than I can dial a phone and it's almost free. I'm a fortunate soul to have seen all of this happen.
For global connectivity, you should try Skype.
I have to turn it off when I'm at the office, otherwise I'd be responding to chats all day. 🙂
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.
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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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