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SQLRockstar

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    Facts are facts. What you have pointed out here is that words can have different meanings (very true) and that a fallacy is not a fact (also true). I will agree that it is the case…

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    That's flippin' HUGE! If the Universe is about 13b years old, then this thing is essentially as about 1/3 the age of the Universe itself.

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    Great question. I suppose that is why people just feel the need to consume more...because they don't know how much they need. With food it is easier to measure a proper intake. Tha…

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    Nice rebuttal to my post from earlier today...

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    Comment #4636592

    I think there is a special level of hell for people who use nested views across linked servers hundreds of miles apart and demand that the DBA team give them sub-second response ti…

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    ...or, I could use "mvw" to designate a new type of object... I agree, the client shouldn't care about the data being a table or a view. But as a DBA, if I need to quickly find a s…

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    Comment #4636545

    Only when you don't use prefixes that are somewhat standard. At the end of the day, however, consistency is key. For example, you used a capital letter to distinguish the start of …

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    Fair point. But how much time have I wasted trying to root out a performance problem caused by nested views disguising themselves as tables? The tools have been failing us. Using a…

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