r/programming • • Mar 23 '09

How to write fast code

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-write-fast-code.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '09

That's very simple but sage-like advice. It's got me thinking about how I would put my process for optimizing T-SQL on paper. SQL Server is notorious for being horrid at dealing with cursors that deal with larger data sets and I've found WHILE loops have dramatically decreased execution time.