Greg Snidow (1/11/2013)
dwain.c
I for one have never heard of this famous "Levenshtein Edit Distance" problem, but you can rest assured that now I'm going to have to take a look at it as well!
I guess you're really busy Dwain (is that the Jeopardy theme in the background?), since you've not come back with anything yet.
You betcha! That crazy Vertex Covers puzzle has me losing sleep! :w00t:
Looks like you may have beaten me to it.
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.
Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
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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