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  • RE: A Syntax Mystery in a Previously Working Procedure

    First of all marwa, congratulations on sticking your head over the parapet and being brave enough to post an article on SQL Server Central; sharing knowledge is how people learn.

    Having...

  • RE: How to Categorize Uncategorized Data

    Also can't find the SQL.

    In the absence of this I'm trying to understand the silhouetting explanation. How is the result in the range -1 to 1? Are the distances...

  • RE: Stairway to Advanced T-SQL Level 3: Understanding Common Table Expressions (CTEs)

    Alan B. - Welcome to the discussion. Things have moved on while I've been sleeping in the UK 🙂 Just to point out that in my case the CTEs were...

  • RE: Stairway to Advanced T-SQL Level 3: Understanding Common Table Expressions (CTEs)

    Out of interest were you able to get an estimated execution plan?

  • RE: Stairway to Advanced T-SQL Level 3: Understanding Common Table Expressions (CTEs)

    That is strange. As Old Hand mentioned re-writing to use sub-queries that filter should produced the same execution plan for simple CTEs.

    I would also flag up that using query hints...

  • RE: Stairway to Advanced T-SQL Level 3: Understanding Common Table Expressions (CTEs)

    Ben and jhood,

    I fell foul of too many articles along the lines of "Look at CTEs, they're fantastic" which never mentioned possible performance issues. That was the reason I posted...

  • RE: Stairway to Advanced T-SQL Level 3: Understanding Common Table Expressions (CTEs)

    My experience was also in a BI system. Where two updates based on recursive CTEs took over 20 mins, using a temp table reduced it to 15 seconds.

    The code was...

  • RE: Stairway to Advanced T-SQL Level 3: Understanding Common Table Expressions (CTEs)

    Just worth pointing out that CTEs against large tables can be very slow; something I have had first hand experience of.

    Here is an alternative method that proved much more performant...

  • RE: Geeky Entertainment

    Andrew Watson-478275 (3/7/2014)


    I think that the Disc World novels lose too much in any unwritten form. Some of the descriptions make it what it is.

    TV, I'd agree; however I've just...

  • RE: Geeky Entertainment

    I first read it when I was about 12 and it didn't seem that bad (I'm a bit older now:Whistling:) - maybe I need to blow the dust off the...

  • RE: Geeky Entertainment

    Jennifer Levy (3/5/2014)

    And (I know there has been talk about this for years, but...) they REALLY need to do Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. But only...

  • RE: Geeky Entertainment

    Can't believe Eddings is/are getting so many mentions, but no one has put forward Feist.

  • RE: Geeky Entertainment

    markradley (2/28/2014)


    Gazareth (2/28/2014)


    I always thought David Eddings' Elenium and Tamuli series would make cracking films.

    The Belgariad and Malloreon by Eddings would also make a good film series I think. I...

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