Jeff Moden (11/5/2013)
dwain.c (11/5/2013)
For what it's worth, I'm in favor of a selective culling of the gene pool. 😛I assure you, it's just words from some serious pent up frustration from working with some folks that don't get it. Rest assurred that I take the high road and try to educate them. I'm not always successful but I do try.
And if you fail, that's when you break out the high-velocity pork chops I presume.
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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