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Thanks, Brandi... I'll give "Outcome-Based Delivery" a look-see.
Reminds me of when "DevOps" came out... it was something I'd been doing since 1980 with other people and before the big PC...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
September 9, 2026 at 5:25 pm
Thank you, Thomas!!! I really appreciate the details. I start/restart some tests and get back here.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
September 9, 2026 at 5:21 pm
Glad it worked. I assume a Norton update?
I don't know if it was a Norton Update or not because I've not heard of anyone else having such a problem...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
September 7, 2026 at 4:50 pm
Thanks for the feedback, Thomas. I'll try to see what the differences are. What are you setup for system/database MAXDOP, which edition and version of SQL Server were you using,...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
September 7, 2026 at 4:27 pm
And... that worked.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 28, 2026 at 1:58 am
Just testing after a fix on Norton Web Safe on my laptop.
Another fine reminder that "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 28, 2026 at 1:56 am
have faced this ISSUE one toooooooooooo many times lots of ideas come to mind some sort of workaround which is very easy to implement
So... what's your "some sort of...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 22, 2026 at 12:32 am
Just a "shot in the dark", try EXECUTE AS OWNER instead of the dbo thing.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 22, 2026 at 12:30 am
<code class="lang-tsql hljs">ALTER INDEX ALL ON dbo.CustomerContactwill return an error, because it misses REBUILD or REORGANIZE. It should be
<code class="lang-tsql hljs">ALTER --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)
August 19, 2026 at 3:01 pm
It has neither positive nor negative performance impacts laying of the intermediate results to CROSS-APPLY-"subqueryies", but it prevents a ton of bugs on the long term when you simply...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 15, 2026 at 1:27 pm
Kimberly Tripp has a trick (I don't have the link handy... you can search for it) to move LOBs to a different file group but then you have to move...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 15, 2026 at 12:42 pm
Customer: We've been told index maintenance is taking too long because we have hundreds of millions of records in some tables on this VLDB. Data is ITD, so cannot...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 15, 2026 at 12:24 pm
SPAM has officially spread to the messages queue. In the past 24 hours, I've gotten 3 messages from the same user that look very spammy. gsgdAccountLast login: August 13th...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 15, 2026 at 12:07 pm
To quote Brent Ozar, "What is the problem that you're trying to solve"? Why do you need such a text based "tree and what are you going to do when...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 12, 2026 at 2:24 am
thanks Jeff for your suggestion posted the code also gif = viusal .. nice .. easy to understand code = play around .... implement etc etc 
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 11, 2026 at 1:00 pm
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