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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 1

Luis Cazares (1/14/2015)
Congratulations Koen! When I grow up I want to be like you. :hehe:

Action figures will soon be available! 😎

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 2

Koen Verbeeck (1/14/2015)
Luis Cazares (1/14/2015)
Congratulations Koen! When I grow up I want to be like you. :hehe:
Action figures will soon be available! 😎

With or without superhero capes?

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 3

Brandie Tarvin (1/14/2015)
Koen Verbeeck (1/14/2015)
Luis Cazares (1/14/2015)
Congratulations Koen! When I grow up I want to be like you. :hehe:
Action figures will soon be available! 😎
With or without superhero capes?

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 4

Koen Verbeeck (1/14/2015)
Luis Cazares (1/14/2015)
Congratulations Koen! When I grow up I want to be like you. :hehe:
Action figures will soon be available! 😎

Certainly there is a branded Witbier on it's way too:w00t:

😎

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736280 More actions · Answer 5

Boy, it seems like my questions are getting worse lately. Taking a beating in the QoD.

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

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/14/2015)
Boy, it seems like my questions are getting worse lately. Taking a beating in the QoD.

Don't worry about it. Some people just have to nitpick everything.

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 7

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/14/2015)
Boy, it seems like my questions are getting worse lately. Taking a beating in the QoD.

The question of today wasn't bad at all. A bit simple maybe (because there was this big discussion last week about aggregates and NULL, so I am amazed people still got it wrong). People just being pedantic over rows vs nulls.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 8

Koen Verbeeck (1/14/2015)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/14/2015)
Boy, it seems like my questions are getting worse lately. Taking a beating in the QoD.
The question of today wasn't bad at all. A bit simple maybe (because there was this big discussion last week about aggregates and NULL, so I am amazed people still got it wrong). People just being pedantic over rows vs nulls.

My guess is that the people complaining today are the same ones that got it wrong because they just don't understand the concept. The question today was a good one imho.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 9

Sean Lange (1/14/2015)
Koen Verbeeck (1/14/2015)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/14/2015)
Boy, it seems like my questions are getting worse lately. Taking a beating in the QoD.
The question of today wasn't bad at all. A bit simple maybe (because there was this big discussion last week about aggregates and NULL, so I am amazed people still got it wrong). People just being pedantic over rows vs nulls.
My guess is that the people complaining today are the same ones that got it wrong because they just don't understand the concept. The question today was a good one imho.

Although I have to admit you're a bit generous with the points lately Steve.

But I don't mind, it brings me closer to Grant mwoehahahahahahaha.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 10

Sean Lange (1/14/2015)
Koen Verbeeck (1/14/2015)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/14/2015)
Boy, it seems like my questions are getting worse lately. Taking a beating in the QoD.
The question of today wasn't bad at all. A bit simple maybe (because there was this big discussion last week about aggregates and NULL, so I am amazed people still got it wrong). People just being pedantic over rows vs nulls.
My guess is that the people complaining today are the same ones that got it wrong because they just don't understand the concept. The question today was a good one imho.

I agree. I almost picked the wrong answer then I looked at the query again. I wasn't registering the * initially. It was a good question.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004370 More actions · Answer 11

Koen Verbeeck (1/13/2015)
FYI, I received the Author of the Year award at MSSQLTips.com!
Thanks everyone for voting!

Outstanding! Well done, Koen!!!

--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
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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 12

Back on topic for a moment.

Maybe I'm in a weird head-space at the moment, but it seems like the questions have gotten... not worse, but weirder. Sort of off the wall, no?

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736280 More actions · Answer 13

Grant Fritchey (1/14/2015)
Back on topic for a moment.
Maybe I'm in a weird head-space at the moment, but it seems like the questions have gotten... not worse, but weirder. Sort of off the wall, no?

Meaning my QotDs?

Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86968 More actions · Answer 14

Luis Cazares (1/14/2015)
Congratulations Koen! When I grow up I want to be like you. :hehe:

I'll second this.

Congratulations Koen!

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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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004370 More actions · Answer 15

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/14/2015)
Grant Fritchey (1/14/2015)
Back on topic for a moment.
Maybe I'm in a weird head-space at the moment, but it seems like the questions have gotten... not worse, but weirder. Sort of off the wall, no?
Meaning my QotDs?

Heh... nah. Those have always been weird. 😀

--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)