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Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31164 More actions · Answer 1

Grant Fritchey (7/23/2010)
Ray K (7/22/2010)
Uh oh, bad blood starting to break out here . . .
Nah, the guy's taking a beating for something he didn't create. I know the feeling all too well. He might be starting to overreact but I think he took a few unnecessary shots.

Yeah, I actually sympathize with him. I know what it's like to inherit bad legacy code (as I'm sure a lot of people here do). Poor guy.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 2

Roy Ernest (7/23/2010)
Grant Fritchey (7/23/2010)
Ray K (7/22/2010)
Uh oh, bad blood starting to break out here . . .
Nah, the guy's taking a beating for something he didn't create. I know the feeling all too well. He might be starting to overreact but I think he took a few unnecessary shots.
I did not post there since I was not sure what I was going to post would be stupid or not. The OP states that when he changed to temp table, it ran faster and then it bogged down again. For me that feels like he has quite a bit of memory pressure and is doing loads of paging. His output is over 30 million rows. That would also mean that he is going to have lots of IO bottle neck. You can do as much tuning on that but that stored proc will always have problem if it has to out put that much rows.
Am I being stupid or am I correct?

You're pretty on. There are LOTS of issues going on there. But the guy is dealing with them as best he can. For some reason the thread just got a bit ugly. Not sure why.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 3

Okay everyone, the hardest thing I have had to do since I started here (work) a little over 5 years ago is done, now the countdown to a new position is started.

Scared, nervous, anxious. :w00t:

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 4

I think the thread went a little sideways since the same advice was thrown out there. Get help. I can understand that is a little overwhelming. For people that don't post a lot, they feel they need to respond and deal with every post, which makes most people defensive. It looks like it slowed down. If it flares up, I'll send a "calming" note to the OP

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 5

ItsYourTurn has a dark chess variant - you can only see the squares your pieces can directly attack. They never see your knight coming, but he kind of wanders around not knowing who is coming after him either. 😛
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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 6

Kaclick khazad!! Khazad ai-menu!!

(Keyboards of the dwarves! The dwarves are upon you!)

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Lynn Pettis (7/23/2010)
Okay everyone, the hardest thing I have had to do since I started here (work) a little over 5 years ago is done, now the countdown to a new position is started.
Scared, nervous, anxious. :w00t:

Congrats and good luck. It feels good to move on to a new gig from time to time.

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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 8

Lynn Pettis (7/23/2010)
Okay everyone, the hardest thing I have had to do since I started here (work) a little over 5 years ago is done, now the countdown to a new position is started.
Scared, nervous, anxious. :w00t:

Congratulations. May your new position be challenging, interesting and rewarding.

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 9

Lynn Pettis (7/23/2010)
Okay everyone, the hardest thing I have had to do since I started here (work) a little over 5 years ago is done, now the countdown to a new position is started.
Scared, nervous, anxious. :w00t:

Congrats on the new gig. Seems like a lot of people I know are changing jobs. I'm bound to where I am until next July. Not sure what I'll be doing after that. I could stay or I could move on.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 10

Stefan Krzywicki (7/23/2010)
Lynn Pettis (7/23/2010)
Okay everyone, the hardest thing I have had to do since I started here (work) a little over 5 years ago is done, now the countdown to a new position is started.
Scared, nervous, anxious. :w00t:
Congratulations. May your new position be challenging, interesting and rewarding.

I'm sure it will be. :w00t:

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 11

Lynn Pettis (7/23/2010)
Okay everyone, the hardest thing I have had to do since I started here (work) a little over 5 years ago is done, now the countdown to a new position is started.
Scared, nervous, anxious. :w00t:

Good luck Lynn. You don't need it. You'll be great.

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 12

Break a leg, Lynn.

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 13

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July 23, 2010 at 10:51 am

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Congrats, Lynn. All the best.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 14

The Dixie Flatline (7/23/2010)
Break a leg, Lynn.

Uh, NO! Broke an ankle back in 2000, NOT FUN! 😛

Thanks! All the good thoughts are needed with this move. :w00t:

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 15

The Dixie Flatline (7/23/2010)
Break a leg, Lynn.

hmmm, you didn't say who's leg, or what kind of leg, to break. Leg from the kitchen table? 😛

Congratulations Lynn and I hope it all goes well.

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