Shwaas: India’s entry for Oscars

Marathi film Shwaas will be India’s entry for the Oscars this year (2004) under the best foreign film category. More …

SET vs SELECT

Here’s a TSQL optimization tip: it seems like a single SELECT statement is faster than multiple SET statements.

SET @foo1 = 0 SET @foo2 = 0 SET @foo3 = 0 ...


is slower than one SELECT like:

SELECT @foo1 = 0, @foo2 = 0, @foo3 = 0

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