Phil, Scott, Jeff and Erik,
Thanks for stopping in to read the article and offer your comments. I hope you find the content useful in your future endeavors.
And to Jeff, special thanks to you sir for taking the time to slog through such a long article clearly not targeted at someone with your level of expertise. Your critical eye is always welcome of course. Keeps me honest.
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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