Lynn Pettis (3/5/2013)
dwain.c (3/5/2013)
Lynn Pettis (3/5/2013)
You know Dwain, now if we could just get you to use the semicolon as a terminator instead of a begininator! 😛Lynn - I'm 100% with you on that but old habits die hard. I'm at least trying to do it now when I write an article. Making it an everyday practice is a real challenge.
Coming from an old COBOL environment with periods at the end of statements, it wasn't too hard to put semicolons at the end of statements in SQL for me.
I just think this looks really weird:
;WITH SomeCte as (
select ...
)
MERGE
...;
PL/1 for me actually and it required semicolons at the end of every statement.
But that's been too long now to confess to.:w00t:
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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