p.s.  And, I agree... MS seems to follow a policy of "patch it until it breaks".  🙁  They're "It just runs faster" brag in 2016 broke some serious stuff for...

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EDIT:  Sorry... I didn't read your last post where you said you've already tried the following.

The issue is, almost certainly, the changes they made to the Cardinality Estimator in...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Jeff Moden. Reason: I didn't read your last post where you said you've already tried the following

If you'd take the time to convert the data for BaseTable_A into a "Readily Consumable" format (please see the article at the first link in my signature line below...

If you'd take the time to convert the data for BaseTable_A into a "Readily Consumable" format (please see the article at the first link in my signature line below for...

What did you use instead?

I find that a serious percentage of front-ends qualify as "empathetic - em" design.  For example, long gone are the days when the menu remained visible when scrolling down or...

Heh... "Just because you can do something in Python, doesn't mean you should". 😉

Okay if I understood your last post I will say -- (1) I do not make sarcastic comments without including an 😉 to let you know I am not...

No Jeff Moden I did not state that SQL was a dinosaur at all, I think I basically referred to others doing so with dynotopic languages such as Cobol....

As you said, I'm making sure of clarity. 🙂

With that, I'll say that you've just repeated yourself.  You're insisting that SQL is a dinosaur here and the its technology is...

Uh yes that was the point to reword what I had intially...

Deleting the duplicate post I made because of the "first post" syndrome. 🙁

Deleting the duplicate post I made because of the "first post" syndrome.

Jeff Moden I did try to outline that in context. I was saying I have actually seen this before with a dynotopic language (aka Cobol) where the powers to...

I'm up to TimeStamp 00:40:00 in 'tube that Steve Collins just posted.  The speaker, Adam Ralph, is doing a great job (well, except for using a laser pointer to point...