What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

re: What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

Kevin Kline — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:07:26 GMT

Nice optimizer. That's a good boy. Who's my boy, my little optimizer boy! Eh, somehow, I get the impression that's not the kind of "speak lovingly to the optimizer" that you mean. ;^)

-Kev

re: What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

Ward Pond — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:22:49 GMT

@Kevin: Ha!

Where exactly did you look to determine the gender of the optimizer? *g*

re: What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

Adam Machanic — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:02:34 GMT

The optimizer is DEFINITELY a woman, and I'll just leave it at that.

re: What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

Adam Machanic — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:03:24 GMT

That should have said "female". <g>

re: What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

Ward Pond — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:36:06 GMT

@Adam: I liked it just fine the way you said it the first time.. *g*

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re: What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

Peso — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:27:03 GMT

Change Data Capture is a good thing, if you can afford Enterprise Edition of Microsoft SQL Server.

For those using Standard Edition, triggers still do have their place.

re: What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

Ward Pond — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:47:27 GMT

@Peso: Agreed. My point was that many people go through a period of fascination with triggers when they overuse them.

Beyond the audit table/audit column scenario, where would you use triggers?

re: What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

Lara Rubbelke — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:49:36 GMT

OK - I am just not sure that I am sure how to take this... Are you implying that the optimizer has the great feminine advantages to multi-task?

Things I Know Now...

Adam Machanic — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:39:36 GMT

I don't usually respond when I'm tagged with these blog memes, but this one is especially interesting

re: What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

alikl — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:16:50 GMT

My favorite here is "Never be afraid to challenge what you think you know" which resonates with Powell's "Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard."

I like both.

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Ward Pond's SQL Server blog — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:45:41 GMT

I’m a little late to the party here, but this is pretty apropos of some of our discussions here lately.