Note: this isint related to my other thread.<BR><BR>Hey<BR><BR>Im writing a php app to collect statistics about our platform. I have about 40 different count(*) querys to run against a mysql database.
A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...
Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...