Good point, but if you don't have the author you can try typing the QOTD topic into the search box at the top right of a formum page and hope that either there are few enough hits to sort through or that what you are looking for shows up on the first page. As I haven't a clue how the search works (ie how the results are determined by what's typed in the box) other than that at least some of the time typing more broadens the search, it doesn't narrow it, and that quotation marks try to match the whole pohrase including the marks, I don't generally that search for anything - I spent some time trying to search for articles when I first met SQLS C, but gave up on it pretty quickly. So when I saw your response, I decided to try it to see how good it is for finding a QOTD discussion. A search on Query cost turned up the current discussion as 7th item on the first page of results - so perhaps I should have done that rather than going back to the email to get the author - but I'd be surprised if it were that good every time.

I too can't generally keep up with SQLSC articles and QOTD on a daily basis, but I catch up by going therough the emails when I have time, since I want to catch up on articles and news as well as on QOTD.