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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 1

Grant Fritchey (10/3/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
Odd. I don't see your post yet, Grant. Does MSSQL moderate their comments?
Weird. Still nothing. Jeremy must be very unhappy with me.

Can you see my comments? (Just curious if only I can see them)

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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 2

Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
Grant Fritchey (10/3/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
Odd. I don't see your post yet, Grant. Does MSSQL moderate their comments?
Weird. Still nothing. Jeremy must be very unhappy with me.
Can you see my comments? (Just curious if only I can see them)

I saw yours, didn't see Grant's.

Maybe your submission didn't go through Grant?

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What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 3

Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
Grant Fritchey (10/3/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
Odd. I don't see your post yet, Grant. Does MSSQL moderate their comments?
Weird. Still nothing. Jeremy must be very unhappy with me.
Can you see my comments? (Just curious if only I can see them)

I can read yours, but I don't see those of Grant.

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 4

There is a little code at the bottom that has to be entered before you hit the post button. Did you enter that, Grant?

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 5

WayneS (10/3/2013)
Who is going to the Summit this year? (I need to figure out who to meet up with...)

I'm planning on being there. Of course I have had years where my plans changed the week before, but hopefully that won't happen thie year.

Jack Corbett
Consultant - Straight Path Solutions
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Jason Wolfkill SSCrazy Eights Points: 9832 More actions · Answer 6

Jack Corbett (10/3/2013)
WayneS (10/3/2013)
Who is going to the Summit this year? (I need to figure out who to meet up with...)
I'm planning on being there. Of course I have had years where my plans changed the week before, but hopefully that won't happen thie year.

I'm going, too.

Jason Wolfkill

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 7

Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
Grant Fritchey (10/3/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
Odd. I don't see your post yet, Grant. Does MSSQL moderate their comments?
Weird. Still nothing. Jeremy must be very unhappy with me.
Can you see my comments? (Just curious if only I can see them)

I saw yours. Not mine. I commented on about six of the questions & answers...

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 8

Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
There is a little code at the bottom that has to be entered before you hit the post button. Did you enter that, Grant?

Yep. Ah well.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 9

Grant Fritchey (10/3/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
There is a little code at the bottom that has to be entered before you hit the post button. Did you enter that, Grant?
Yep. Ah well.

Did you include links? Some places put posts into a waiting queue if there's more than 2.

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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 10

Stefan Krzywicki (10/3/2013)
Grant Fritchey (10/3/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2013)
There is a little code at the bottom that has to be entered before you hit the post button. Did you enter that, Grant?
Yep. Ah well.
Did you include links? Some places put posts into a waiting queue if there's more than 2.

I'm pretty sure I didn't.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 11

WayneS (10/3/2013)
Who is going to the Summit this year? (I need to figure out who to meet up with...)

I won't be coming. Don't cry, my time will come. (someday...)

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Chad Crawford SSChampion Points: 11610 More actions · Answer 12

WayneS (10/3/2013)
Who is going to the Summit this year? (I need to figure out who to meet up with...)

I'll be there.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 13

Chad Crawford (10/3/2013)
WayneS (10/3/2013)
Who is going to the Summit this year? (I need to figure out who to meet up with...)
I'll be there.

Sweet

I'll be there.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 14

WayneS (10/3/2013)
Who is going to the Summit this year? (I need to figure out who to meet up with...)

Not going. Prepping for the "great migration" from 2005 to 2012 and from old servers to new and consolidation of servers. We get to do the migration part again for 2014 later when 2014 hits SP1. We're not waiting because it'll be a a bit tougher to go from 2005 directly to 2014.

--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.

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Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86948 More actions · Answer 15

Jeff Moden (10/3/2013)
WayneS (10/3/2013)
Who is going to the Summit this year? (I need to figure out who to meet up with...)
Not going. Prepping for the "great migration" from 2005 to 2012 and from old servers to new and consolidation of servers. We get to do the migration part again for 2014 later when 2014 hits SP1. We're not waiting because it'll be a a bit tougher to go from 2005 directly to 2014.

An article on the trials and tribulations of such an upgrade would probably be useful.

My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]
My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

My advice:
INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

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