Don't even believe SSMS when you think it's telling the truth

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Published on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:00:00 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/28 15:31 UTC
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LiveJournal Tags: how To,ssms,tips and tricks,tsqlThis is in follow up to my last post How to make sure you see the truth in Management Studio which explained that the time that you see at the bottom of a Management Studio window cannot be believed to represent the time it takes for a query to execute as it also includes the time taken for SSMS to receive and format the data grid. Now, very soon after that went live I received a comment from Dave Ballantyne (Blog | Twitter) mentioning that having...(read more)

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