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  • December 5, 2012 at 6:54 am

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    Your Name Here (12/5/2012)

    Sorry to be a bit off-topic but this thread flashed me back to an interview I had years ago. The 'technical' questions about troubleshooting were surprisingly specific and detailed. After more than a few - all along the same basic problem - I stopped the interview and asked why all the questions centered around one type of issue. After a few moments of dead air, they finally admitted they had a problem with one of their production databases and was looking for ways to fix it.

    I left shortly after.

    That is a great story. Hilarious! Its a shame that they wasted your time but you got a good story out of it.

    "I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

    -- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001