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Heh.. I do realize this is an old article but, especially lately, does it actually matter? Like my Maternal Grandmother explained to me when I was only 5 or 6,...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
October 11, 2026 at 5:04 pm
Unless I missed something, it appears that you've not mentioned the version nor the edition of SQL Server this happened on nor how much overall RAM was available in the...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
September 25, 2026 at 7:37 pm
@Brandi
I looked up "Outcome-Based Delivery". That's basically what I was thinking. The problem is, you're going to need something air-tight on both sides. As we've both seen, there are way...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
September 21, 2026 at 2:06 am
One of my favorites in the following picture...

Some others...
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
Change is inevitable... change for the better...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
September 21, 2026 at 1:57 am
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
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