No need to be embarrassed and you're welcome.
You'd be surprised how often the simplest issue is uncovered quickly by a second set of eyes. In this case, I happened to have done a lot of dynamic SQL of late so the answer kind of jumped out at me.
And it helped a lot to have code that was easily modified to run on my SQL.
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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