I wasn't entirely happy with it either. Not too to be salesman, but Red Gate's SQL Prompt does everything you're looking for. I'm still planning on using it going forward.

Yikes. If they're teaching you to use the IN clause with a sub-select, time to run. Get them to hire Jeff Moden or one of other people from here to...

You should look into the BOL and check out how to do ANSI standard joins. It'll make your code more readable and can improve performance by limiting data at the...

I strongly recommend against using the old style joins. You really can run into trouble and they're not supported in every instance in SQL Server 2005 & above. See here...

If I have to pick only one, I'd go with consistency. Once everything looks and acts similarly (even if poorly), it's much easier to work on the quality and raise...

I suspect you're also getting recompiles during execution. These will kill performance. You might want to use the KEEPFIXED PLAN hint internally on the queries, but not on the proc...

Sorry, I must have missed the execution plan earlier.

These are going to prevent the code from using indexes:

isnull([@lv_processComparisonDate],[@lv_processCOBdate])<=isnull([MARKET_RISK_DB_US].[publish].[DIM_STRATEGY].[EFCT_END_DT] as [selStrategy].[EFCT_END_DT],'9999-12-31 00:00:00.000'

Also, based on the fact that there are so many...

It only captures events as they occur. Nothing in the past.

Have you looked at the execution plan for the query? It may not be using indexes appropriately, doing scans, etc. If you have a particular query that's killing performance, check...

Do the gambling laws apply if no one is actually, you know, gambling? Although I guess the prizes at the end for the three highest sets of chips could count,...

I guess I meant, is this statement just one of a batch of TSQL statements? You may have received the 0 rows affected from another part of the query.

Is the statement in question a SELECT or an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. If the latter, the engine ignores the NOLOCK hint.

The Mode column will show you what kind of lock you're...

I'd suggest running Profiler and either capturing or generating execution plans for the longest running queries. You might also take a look at the dynamic management view dm_db_missing_index_details, *_Group_stats, *_Groups....

Is this part of a bigger batch?

I fiddle around with a bamboo flute, but honestly, I can't carry a tune in a bucket.

On my team, of 14, we have one musician (not counting my screetches). So...