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Kit G SSCrazy Points: 2888 More actions · Answer 1

Grant Fritchey (3/15/2011)
Jeff Moden (3/14/2011)
It'll be my pleasure to take a gander and maybe run some code, Craig. Lemme know. Actually, you could do the same for me soon and if you have the time. If you don't have the time, that's ok, too. I'll just force you to watch 8 hours of Grant dancing in a kilt on a table top with the sun at his back. 😛
And I'll bring the short kilt for that one.

You wouldn't happen to have the Prince Charlie jacket and set up, would you?

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398913 More actions · Answer 2

Kit G (3/15/2011)
Grant Fritchey (3/15/2011)
Jeff Moden (3/14/2011)
It'll be my pleasure to take a gander and maybe run some code, Craig. Lemme know. Actually, you could do the same for me soon and if you have the time. If you don't have the time, that's ok, too. I'll just force you to watch 8 hours of Grant dancing in a kilt on a table top with the sun at his back. 😛
And I'll bring the short kilt for that one.
You wouldn't happen to have the Prince Charlie jacket and set up, would you?

No, but I suppos we can build up a request list and customize the video. It should help to make it especially evil. Jeff might put away the pork chop launcher and begin using the ultimate weapon.

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173083 More actions · Answer 3

Wow. Just finished beta-reading for Craig.

Wow.

Aren't you guys sad you can't see that article yet and jealous that I got to read it before you did! @=)

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259125 More actions · Answer 4

Brandie Tarvin (3/15/2011)
Aren't you guys sad you can't see that article yet and jealous that I got to read it before you did! @=)

Well, I wasn't until just now, thank you very much. 🙂

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736607 More actions · Answer 5

Just a reminder, 24 hours of PASS, the Women's edition, is going on today.

http://www.sqlpass.org/24hours/spring2011/SessionsbySchedule.aspx

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 6

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/15/2011)
Just a reminder, 24 hours of PASS, the Women's edition, is going on today.
http://www.sqlpass.org/24hours/spring2011/SessionsbySchedule.aspx

Interesting... I only recognize the names of five of the speakers - and I've never met any of them (yet!).

Several topics look very interesting ... however, LiveMeeting is blocked at work, so I won't be able to see them. Does anyone know if we'll be able to download them later on?

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 7

SQLkiwi (3/15/2011)
Craig Farrell (3/14/2011)
...It's about that MAX()/CrossApply()/Row_Number() bit we were batting around about a month ago.
Was this a thread on SSC? Do you have a link?

It was and I don't offhand, sorry Paul. It was really just conversation on which is faster when and it's become something of a side project for me figuring out when they are according to different data densities. It's for when you want to find the last date of an item in a logfile, for example, or you want to pull the last available data as of a specific timestamp.

I had thought I'd delved into the optimizer before, but this is taking me to far flung planets in mystical galaxies. Okay, not quite that bad, but I'm unlearning some assumptions and learning new methods with a massive benchmarking test bed I've built. This is all to the good, and part of why I haven't posted much about it before. I don't like showing my dirty laundry until either I'm in the ambulence or it's as clean as I can get it without help. 😀

I'll give everyone the short form and a teaser: There's no clear winner across the boards yet, but I'm still building up the 'real world' test case, which I think will make an outright liar out of that last statement.

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 8

WayneS (3/15/2011)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/15/2011)
Just a reminder, 24 hours of PASS, the Women's edition, is going on today.
http://www.sqlpass.org/24hours/spring2011/SessionsbySchedule.aspx
Interesting... I only recognize the names of five of the speakers - and I've never met any of them (yet!).
Several topics look very interesting ... however, LiveMeeting is blocked at work, so I won't be able to see them. Does anyone know if we'll be able to download them later on?

Same problem here... well, that and they want me to work when I'm at work, fussy people, I tell ya...

- Craig Farrell

Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 9

Brandie Tarvin (3/15/2011)
Wow. Just finished beta-reading for Craig.
Wow.
Aren't you guys sad you can't see that article yet and jealous that I got to read it before you did! @=)

😎 Now, there's a compliment... a rough draft gets that kind of commentary, I can't wait to see what it'll look like once I've cleaned it up with all the help I'm getting and Steve does his final magic once over to help me kill off my wandering rambling.

- Craig Farrell

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

WayneS (3/15/2011)
Does anyone know if we'll be able to download them later on?

Streaming, not download. Something an issue with but PASS doesn't seem to be willing to change

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (3/15/2011)
WayneS (3/15/2011)
Does anyone know if we'll be able to download them later on?
Streaming, not download. Something an issue with but PASS doesn't seem to be willing to change

Darn. Yours was one I'd really like to see! (The title alone intrigues me - sure wish I could come up with something witty like that for mine!)

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 12

Craig Farrell (3/15/2011)
WayneS (3/15/2011)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/15/2011)
Just a reminder, 24 hours of PASS, the Women's edition, is going on today.
http://www.sqlpass.org/24hours/spring2011/SessionsbySchedule.aspx
Interesting... I only recognize the names of five of the speakers - and I've never met any of them (yet!).
Several topics look very interesting ... however, LiveMeeting is blocked at work, so I won't be able to see them. Does anyone know if we'll be able to download them later on?
Same problem here... well, that and they want me to work when I'm at work, fussy people, I tell ya...

did you tell them that they're not allowed to use 4-letter words on you?

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 13

WayneS (3/15/2011)
GilaMonster (3/15/2011)
WayneS (3/15/2011)
Does anyone know if we'll be able to download them later on?
Streaming, not download. Something an issue with but PASS doesn't seem to be willing to change
Darn. Yours was one I'd really like to see! (The title alone intrigues me - sure wish I could come up with something witty like that for mine!)

I can't watch the recorded videos via streaming because of crap internet connection, I doubt you have the same problem though.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 14

GilaMonster (3/15/2011)
WayneS (3/15/2011)
Does anyone know if we'll be able to download them later on?
Streaming, not download. Something an issue with but PASS doesn't seem to be willing to change

Quite a pity

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 15

Let me clarify. Streaming as in windows media player streaming of a video. It should work fine on any reasonable internet connection.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass