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Old 08-23-2010, 02:02 PM   #249
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Yipes! Now I'm scared!



Doubting that anyone but you or I cares about this, but...
I think the problem is that the company I work for is so huge that there is a rotation of DBA's who see my queries running. I will make peace with one, explaining that my query is indeed as tweaked as it can be, and I'm running after hours, etc., but then the next day, it will be a different guy, and the next day, yet another. So I just cut & paste my response from one to the next...

--Maria
Being on both sides of the fence I can safely say that the funniest answer to your problems would be tell them that your queries wouldn't run so long if they had designed the database properly

Oh, and then .... run....
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