Right after adding the indexes you saw no improvement. Not too surprising as the procedure was using the old execution plan that was cached when the procedure was last...

Steve, sorry for your loss. It sounds like knee-jerk and brain-dead. Applying a blanket solution with no good reason is terrible.

Often folks that have had issues with log...

rourrourlogan (4/26/2015)

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I want to find out the sum of the total new insurance policies quickly, I dont want to have to navigate an entire long list of querys to find...

So many things here. Where to start?

Steve, I thought that this was 29 days late (as I'm reading it). Recently on the news there was a piece about...

I walked into the ST (Science and Technology) building at the local community college only to find that the bottom floor was numbered zero. 😎 I knew that...

Once again Jeff is right. Got me by 2. 😀

teodorom (4/23/2015)

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I helped a friend debug and test a program that took a free form trinomial and factor it into it's...

I read that article after I got this...

Eric:

In Japan would that be floor 4, and for the same reason?

Jeff:

Are you older than me? I guess that it could happen.

Also don't mess with disabled folks. We...

teodorom (4/22/2015)

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There is another point worth considering: this blog has an international audience.

My English is only technical, and I have to say that I'm unable to solve crosswords, I have...

Eric M Russell (4/21/2015)

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We need an action movie where the hero is a fed up IT guy. It seems like we always get...

Thanks Jeff. I had read it somewhere but forgot the source. I need correcting from time to time.

Of course if they change to alpha on any of the...

Wow. So much has been said here. Where to begin?

Language in the original article

I unplugged my headphones so that my wife could "read" the article right along with...

I agree with what Jeff has said yet I feel that he has not given enough reason so that you have a complete understanding. This is because you are...

Great article and analogies. One of the first things that they teach you in pottery is "centering". Your pot will fail on the wheel unless you are centered...