[thelist] Re: Quality Control, etc. of MS products

[Steve Lewis]

Steve Lewis wrote:
> "Statistics are like bikinis.  What they reveal is suggestive, but what
> they conceal is vital."
>
> --Steve
>

I should have attributed the quote to Joe Celko, as printed in Ken
Henderson's "The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL" ... What?  Why are you
looking at me like that?

And I owe...

<tip author="Steve Lewis" subject="working in SQL">
When working in SQL, and you find yourself refering to the same table in
a query and it's requisite subquery it is time to step back and
refactor.  This kills your efficiency with most RDBMS, try to reogranize
the query so that you only refer to the table one time.
</tip>

--Steve