Office Hours, Silent Film Edition


Hey, remember in yesterday’s video how I said I was having a really bad day? Well, here’s how bad it was – I recorded two videos in a row, and I forgot to turn my microphone on for the second video.

<sigh>

So here are the questions & answers:

00:25 Calvin H: Any tips or gotcha’s for query tuning of hierarchy id data types in MSSQL? No. Just be aware that recursive CTEs (which are usually used with hierarchy IDs) produce single-threaded plans. If you have a big complex query, and HierarchyIDs are part of that, you