Brent Ozar is a madman and I love it:
Wanna play some Texas Hold ‘Em style poker and make a pile of Query Bucks? Wanna watch other database people playing?
Click through to learn more about the game itself, but also the strategic choices Brent made and a bit of an after-action report on what it took to generate this code.
Also, shout out to Brad Shultz, whose blog I miss. It was his T-SQL Tuesday on the APPLY operator that really opened my eyes to how good that operator is.
Finally, I’m giving this post the most coveted tag in Curated SQL: Wacky Ideas. It’s rare that I get to use this one.