Paul White (@SQL_Kiwi) follows up a great post on calculating medians with some information on how locking can affect query performance, often undetected.
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Paul White (@SQL_Kiwi) demonstrates another case where a cursor might be the most efficient approach to solving a typically set-based problem: medians.
Tim Radney (@tradney) discusses some aspects of the msdb database that probably require more attention than they currently get in a lot of environments.
