How Important Are Real Time Decisions?

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How Important Are Real Time Decisions?

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December 5, 2025 at 12:00 am

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David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 76320 More actions · Answer 1

General de Gaulle is reputed to have had two trays on his desk. Instead of labelling then IN and OUT they were labelled

Problems that will be solved by time
Problems that have been solved by time

Thinking about it from a software patching perspective, there used to be a maxim that you didn't upgrade to a major version until Service Pack 1 was released. There have certainly been SQL Server service packs where early application did cause issues.

SQL Server build 2039 was followed within 24 hours by build 2040. 2039 stopped SQL Server using the higher memory, back when 32 bit memory limits were a thing.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 740241 More actions · Answer 2

Lol, I used to pile up requests on my desk as I got busy. Just tell people to drop them there, along with email requests I'd print out.

at some point, I'd take the bottom half of the stack, usually an inch or so of paper and toss it. My boss saw that one day and asked why wasn't I going through them.

I told him for most of those requests too much time had passed. Clearly those things weren't important enough to check on, or they'd be in the top half of the stack.

Time solved a lot of problems.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 740241 More actions · Answer 3

Lol, I used to pile up requests on my desk as I got busy. Just tell people to drop them there, along with email requests I'd print out.

at some point, I'd take the bottom half of the stack, usually an inch or so of paper and toss it. My boss saw that one day and asked why wasn't I going through them.

I told him for most of those requests too much time had passed. Clearly those things weren't important enough to check on, or they'd be in the top half of the stack.

Time solved a lot of problems.

David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 76320 More actions · Answer 4

One of my bosses had an Outlook rule to delete any email where he was CC'd.

If he came back after vacation, he would go to his "unread" list. CTRL+A, DEL. He was strangely productive. I wonder why 😉

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004683 More actions · Answer 5

Like Granny used to say, "The faster they move, the behinder they get".

--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.

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