Jeff Moden (9/12/2013)
dwain.c (9/11/2013)
BTW. I really like this.Jeff Moden (8/31/2013)
That's why I teach my Developers to learn the more performant methods... so they can do it in their sleep and won't have to rewrite code to fix performance problems that should have been avoided to begin with.You can lead a horse to water but how the heck do you get the beast to drink?
It takes a lot of patience but the answer is, hire only those horses that are willing to drink and make the water taste good. 😉
It seems all of the ones we hire foul the creek.
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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