Adding More Power

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Adding More Power

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February 22, 2017 at 10:10 pm

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Stewart "Arturius" Campbell SSC Guru Points: 72486 More actions · Answer 1

Good question, thanks Steve.
Have had to use this recently on a poorly performing Azure db

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George Vobr SSCrazy Eights Points: 9914 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for this question. I learned something new. I appreciate the Microsoft Azure documentation. 😉

Revenant SSC-Forever Points: 42467 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks, Steve. It is interesting that the correct and wrong answers are at this time almost evenly spread.

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287024 More actions · Answer 4

I haven't used Azure and don't have much chance of using Azure any time soon.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 5

Revenant - Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:57 AM
Thanks, Steve. It is interesting that the correct and wrong answers are at this time almost evenly spread.

And that's still true four days later.

Probably a lot of people don't realise that there are 4 different syntaxes for ALTER Database SET OPTIONS according to which kind of Service it is run on (ordinary SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, or Parallel Data Warehouse) so they just look it up in one place - mostly in the wrong place for this question - and get it wrong. Some people know there are four versions and look it up in the right place, so they get it right. Some already know the answer (because they have worked using Azure SQL Data Warehouse) and get it right. Others believe they already know the answer and get it wrong, Some know theydon't know and dont bother to look it up, they just guess.

So there are quite a lot of ways of getting it wrong, but it's actually very easy to get it right by being careful about how one looks it up, which anyone who works (or has ever worked) seriously with SQL Server must have learnt to do. Somehow that has led to a 50% right and 50% wrong stable position.

Tom

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 6

I liked this question about Azure SQL DW. Bring on more please.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734418 More actions · Answer 7

SQLRNNR - Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:10 PM
I liked this question about Azure SQL DW. Bring on more please.

Feel free to write a few on other topics for me 😉

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, March 31, 2017 1:59 AM
SQLRNNR - Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:10 PM
I liked this question about Azure SQL DW. Bring on more please.
Feel free to write a few on other topics for me 😉

Point taken.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003853 More actions · Answer 9

Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to optimize the code instead of throwing more resources into the picture?

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RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 10

Jeff Moden - Tuesday, April 4, 2017 11:00 PM
Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to optimize the code instead of throwing more resources into the picture?

Yes, it probably would, but managers tend to be short-term-ists, they don't give a toss about the long term because they'll have moved on and it'll be someone else's problem by the time the long term effects manifest themselves. This tends to apply all th way up to thetop, except in the extremely rare cases where the top management has a real commitment to the company (like if it goes bust so do they).

Tom

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003853 More actions · Answer 11

TomThomson - Sunday, April 9, 2017 12:06 PM
Jeff Moden - Tuesday, April 4, 2017 11:00 PM
Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to optimize the code instead of throwing more resources into the picture?
Yes, it probably would, but managers tend to be short-term-ists, they don't give a toss about the long term because they'll have moved on and it'll be someone else's problem by the time the long term effects manifest themselves. This tends to apply all th way up to thetop, except in the extremely rare cases where the top management has a real commitment to the company (like if it goes bust so do they).

Ah! As they say, "TRUE DAT!". 😉 That's the reason why the outgoing manager frequently thinks "Veni, vidi, vici" and the incoming manager thinks "Veni, vidi, WTF!?" I wonder how many of them know the parable of the 3 envelopes? 😛 Many do seem to practice it.
http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Prepare_3_Envelopes.html

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)