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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 1

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.
I'll be gone after tomorrow, heading away for a week. Everyone behave.

Yay - party at Steve's place!!!

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736494 More actions · Answer 2

SQLRNNR (12/19/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.
I'll be gone after tomorrow, heading away for a week. Everyone behave.
Yay - party at Steve's place!!!

Dogs and barn help still here.

May or may not be armed.

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

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
SQLRNNR (12/19/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.
I'll be gone after tomorrow, heading away for a week. Everyone behave.
Yay - party at Steve's place!!!
Dogs and barn help still here.
May or may not be armed.

They're invited to the party as well!

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

Lynn Pettis (12/19/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
SQLRNNR (12/19/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.
I'll be gone after tomorrow, heading away for a week. Everyone behave.
Yay - party at Steve's place!!!
Dogs and barn help still here.
May or may not be armed.
They're invited to the party as well!

Whether they have arms or not.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 5

Do you all have fun and/or hectic holiday plans still to come? My wife and I are finished with our holidays this year, Thanksgiving being the last big one, and are looking forward to rest and relaxation at last. Only event coming up is a casual New Year's party and brunch with friends and feeding a friend's cats while they're away for XMass.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 6

Having transitioned back to nights, I will be posting my count down at the end of my shift:

... Mark one off, 70 days on the calendar to go. 70 days on the calendar to go, 70 days to go, ...

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 7

GilaMonster (12/19/2014)
jasona.work (12/19/2014)
(I think some of the L2 and L1 cache, various other bits and bobs)
Each core has it's own L1, at least with the Intel processors. L2 is 'shared' (kinda, one core can't flush the entire of L2), L3 if present as well.
Reason multiple cores is better than multiple processors is to do with the inter-core communication. With them really close together, there's less delay in communications between them.

I don't think there are any non-intel multi-core processors with shared L1 cache; if there are, they will have poor performance compared to those that don't do that.

There are other reasons multiple processors are not as good as multiple cores: for example a 4 core processr doesn't require as many lines onto the motherboard as 4 1-core processors, and that is quite a useful space saving (and, I believe, the main original motivaton for multi-core CPUs - I could be wrong on that, but I think Brandy was right). Core to core communication is the biggest performance factor, but maybe not the biggest performance per unit cost factor (I don't know). But there are both roundabouts and swings here - cooling issues are the other side of the coin.

Tom

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 8

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.

And the same to you.

I'll be gone after tomorrow, heading away for a week. Everyone behave.

Your missing an adverb - I'll be doing exactly as you say, I'll cetainly behave. But that doesnt constrain how I behave, does it?

Tom

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

... Mark one off, 69 days on the calendar to go. 69 days on the calendar to go, 69 days to go, ...

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004414 More actions · Answer 10

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
SQLRNNR (12/19/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.
I'll be gone after tomorrow, heading away for a week. Everyone behave.
Yay - party at Steve's place!!!
Dogs and barn help still here.
May or may not be armed.

Heh... no problem. Bones'n'Booze is standard carry for such parties. 😀

--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.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 11

... Mark one off, 68 days on the calendar to go. 68 days on the calendar to go, 68 days to go, ...

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50118 More actions · Answer 12

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
SQLRNNR (12/19/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/19/2014)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.
I'll be gone after tomorrow, heading away for a week. Everyone behave.
Yay - party at Steve's place!!!
Dogs and barn help still here.
May or may not be armed.

Your dogs want steak...

🙂

I would expect the barn help to be armed, after all, it's kind of difficult using a pitchfork with no arms...

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

Someone, please, help! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1645843-1549-1.aspx

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 14

GilaMonster (12/22/2014)
Someone, please, help! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1645843-1549-1.aspx

OMG!

Cannot be unseen......:sick:

-- Gianluca Sartori

Steve Thompson-454462 SSCrazy Points: 2624 More actions · Answer 15

Brandie Tarvin (12/16/2014)
But still... To my mind, since I'm already fixing one part of the package, why shouldn't I proactively fix the rest of it to make sure the other 6 procs and ETL paths do NOT become a problem down the road?
Or am I just being too efficient?

I'm in your corner, Brandie. In my experience opportunities to pay down technical debt through refactoring can be so difficult to come by (getting approval for them, finding time for them, etc.) that when the window is open you should try to cram as much through as possible. I suppose one consideration might be the scope of the testing required before the changes can be released into production, but if the code is passing all tests why not release it?