The rest of the team had gone home hours ago. Only the hum of cooling fans and the faint blue glow of monitor screens kept me company. Tonight’s target: a legacy financial database running on SQL Server 2014. The company called it "Project Phoenix" – rebirthing old data into new dashboards. I called it a headache.
The next morning, the team asked how I fixed it. I said, "SQL Studio 2014 – same tool you've been ignoring." They laughed.
SET STATISTICS TIME, IO ON; EXEC Dashboard.GetMonthlyReport @Year = 2024; Output: Table 'FactSales'. Scan count 1, logical reads 342, physical reads 0 SQL Server Execution Times: CPU time = 312 ms, elapsed time = 407 ms.