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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 1

Jeff Moden (6/13/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/13/2014)
Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/13/2014)
NOt a great game, but not a bad one so far. First one I've had on so far this World Cup. I missed last night's game with Brazil. Heard it was dramatic.
That is was. Well worth the time to watch it.
I couldn't even have it on in the background. I'm trying to finish my book and need to concentrate.
Ooooooo.... now you have my interest. What's the subject?

The query tuning book. Rewriting it for 2014. We completely restructured the book, added a ton of chapters, it's going to be all new for 2014.

I'm on the last two chapters for the first draft and I only have five chapters to get through a tech review (Joe Sack is killing me, again, which is awesome), then it's just copy edits. I should be completely done within 2-3 weeks.

"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

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

wolfkillj (6/13/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/13/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/13/2014)
Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/13/2014)
NOt a great game, but not a bad one so far. First one I've had on so far this World Cup. I missed last night's game with Brazil. Heard it was dramatic.
That is was. Well worth the time to watch it.
I couldn't even have it on in the background. I'm trying to finish my book and need to concentrate.
What, you don't want to put random football commentary into the book?
From Grant's latest draft:
In other words, the optimizer figures out how best to implement the request represented
by the T-SQL query you submitted. It decides if it can access the data through indexes,
what types of joins to use and much more. The decisions made by the optimizer are based
on GOOOOOOOOAAAALLL!!! <airplane run> <shirt off> <knee slide> <dogpile> what it calculates to be the cost of a given execution plan, in terms of the required
CPU processing and I/O. Hence, this is a cost-based plan.

Ha! More like:

This creates a durable table in the memory of the system using the disk space we defined to retain a durable copy of the data ensuring that we wouldn’t lose data in the event of a power loss. It has a primary key that is an IDENTITY value NO WAY WAS THAT OFFSIDES! ARE YOU BLIND! just like with a regular SQL Server table (although, to use IDENTITY instead of SEQUENCE, you will be surrendering the capability to set the definition to anything except (1,1) in this version of SQL Server). But, the index definition is not clustered. Instead it’s NON-CLUSTERED HASH. We’ll talk about indexing in the next section.

"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

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 3

Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
I hope I don't have to avoid SSC for the next month so I don't hear scores before I am able to watch the games on my DVR. :w00t:

GoalgoalgoalgoalGOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

The Dixie Flatline (6/13/2014)
Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
I hope I don't have to avoid SSC for the next month so I don't hear scores before I am able to watch the games on my DVR. :w00t:
GoalgoalgoalgoalGOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!

Now in Spanish?

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 5

SQLRNNR (6/13/2014)
The Dixie Flatline (6/13/2014)
Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
I hope I don't have to avoid SSC for the next month so I don't hear scores before I am able to watch the games on my DVR. :w00t:
GoalgoalgoalgoalGOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!
Now in Spanish?

¡¡¡¡GolgolgolgolGOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!! 😀

And my forecast was correct 🙂

Luis C.
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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 6

Luis Cazares (6/13/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/13/2014)
The Dixie Flatline (6/13/2014)
Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
I hope I don't have to avoid SSC for the next month so I don't hear scores before I am able to watch the games on my DVR. :w00t:
GoalgoalgoalgoalGOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!
Now in Spanish?
¡¡¡¡GolgolgolgolGOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!! 😀
And my forecast was correct 🙂

Was it a forecast or an impartial prejudice for your team?:-D

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 7

Luis Cazares (6/13/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/13/2014)
The Dixie Flatline (6/13/2014)
Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
I hope I don't have to avoid SSC for the next month so I don't hear scores before I am able to watch the games on my DVR. :w00t:
GoalgoalgoalgoalGOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!
Now in Spanish?
¡¡¡¡GolgolgolgolGOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!! 😀
And my forecast was correct 🙂

I went to a Mexican place for lunch knowing full well they would have the game on in every corner. Saw it from about the 25 minute mark until about 80 or so.

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 8

Luis Cazares (6/13/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/13/2014)
The Dixie Flatline (6/13/2014)
Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
I hope I don't have to avoid SSC for the next month so I don't hear scores before I am able to watch the games on my DVR. :w00t:
GoalgoalgoalgoalGOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!
Now in Spanish?
¡¡¡¡GolgolgolgolGOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!! 😀
And my forecast was correct 🙂

You beat me to it, Luis.

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 9

I hate soccer season.

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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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 10

GilaMonster (6/13/2014)
I hate soccer season.

hehe soccer isn't really a season per se. Especially those of us in the U.S. We have MLS in the summer and all the other leagues in the winter. I play year round myself so for me soccer "season" doesn't end until I quit playing. 🙂

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (6/13/2014)
I hate soccer season.

Too many memories of this??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWUvWJl2j0

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 12

Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
GilaMonster (6/13/2014)
I hate soccer season.
hehe soccer isn't really a season per se. Especially those of us in the U.S. We have MLS in the summer and all the other leagues in the winter. I play year round myself so for me soccer "season" doesn't end until I quit playing. 🙂

Mexico has 2 soccer seasons that last for about 5 months each. Between each season we have international tournaments (including World Cup) and European leagues. Soccer won't stop in here but I'm not interested most of the time.

Luis C.
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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 13

I miss getting out on the pitch with the kids. It actually helps keep me feeling young.

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 14

Lynn Pettis (6/13/2014)
I miss getting out on the pitch with the kids. It actually helps keep me feeling young.

You should get out and play. That will really help you feel young. I imagine at this point you mostly miss seeing grass.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 15

Sean Lange (6/13/2014)
Lynn Pettis (6/13/2014)
I miss getting out on the pitch with the kids. It actually helps keep me feeling young.
You should get out and play. That will really help you feel young. I imagine at this point you mostly miss seeing grass.

Grass?? What is grass?? Lots of rocks and dust around here but what is this stuff you call grass?