Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/22/06 00:42

Herb Caudill (herb@caudillweb.com) writes:
> Take me: I am a web developer. I use SQL server to store content for
> small websites. I'm 100% self-taught, and my company is in no danger of
> failing as a result, thank you very much. I don't give a rat's ass about
> query optimization or performance; CPU cycles are cheap and my datasets
> are small.

I can assure you that very many users of SQL Server do care about
performance.

Being 100% self-taught is admireable, not the least because it includes
learning some things the hard way, even the basics. As for instance that the
only way to get a certain order out of a query is to use ORDER BY in it.
I'm sorry, but that is way SQL works, not only SQL Server.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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