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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www2.sqlblog.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Adam Machanic : Performance, datetime</title><link>http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/Performance/datetime/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Performance, datetime</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)</generator><item><title>T-SQL Tuesday #001: Exploring "Fuzzy" Interval Islands Using SQLCLR</title><link>http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2009/12/08/t-sql-tuesday-001-exploring-fuzzy-interval-islands-using-sqlclr.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:13:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:19621</guid><dc:creator>Adam Machanic</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/comments/19621.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/commentrss.aspx?PostID=19621</wfw:commentRss><description>When working with time intervals, we often want to ask a couple of basic questions: Which time periods are not covered by our intervals? These are known as "gaps". What are the time ranges that we are fully covering? These are known as "islands". If you're...(&lt;a href="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2009/12/08/t-sql-tuesday-001-exploring-fuzzy-interval-islands-using-sqlclr.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www2.sqlblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=19621" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/attachment/19621.ashx" length="2111" type="application/x-zip-compressed" /><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/Performance/default.aspx">Performance</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/SQLCLR/default.aspx">SQLCLR</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/datetime/default.aspx">datetime</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/date/default.aspx">date</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/T-SQL+Tuesday/default.aspx">T-SQL Tuesday</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/time/default.aspx">time</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/gaps/default.aspx">gaps</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/islands/default.aspx">islands</category></item><item><title>What Happened Today? DATE and Date Ranges Over DATETIME</title><link>http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2009/10/20/what-happened-today-date-and-date-ranges-over-datetime.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:18023</guid><dc:creator>Adam Machanic</dc:creator><slash:comments>14</slash:comments><comments>http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/comments/18023.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/commentrss.aspx?PostID=18023</wfw:commentRss><description>A few days ago Aaron posted yet another fantastic entry in his Bad Habits series, this one discussing mishandling of date ranges in queries . This is a topic near and dear to me, having had to clean up a lot of poorly thought out code in the past few...(&lt;a href="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2009/10/20/what-happened-today-date-and-date-ranges-over-datetime.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www2.sqlblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=18023" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/Performance/default.aspx">Performance</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/T-SQL/default.aspx">T-SQL</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/Optimization/default.aspx">Optimization</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/datetime/default.aspx">datetime</category><category domain="http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/tags/date/default.aspx">date</category></item></channel></rss>