Querying Quotes

“The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“There is no room for reverence in a mind fettered with ceaseless query.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“You should be querying why you consider a violent society as being normal.”
― Steven Magee

“If astronomers do not like the truth, they should be querying why.”
― Steven Magee

“Neither did the biblio...worthies themselves allege much tangible objection against the work offered to their acceptance,--which they yet seemed unanimous in rejecting; excepting that there was something new and queer about "the thing" they did not like! They could not say exactly what it was--but it was not written in the way Lady This, That, or the Other (it was the time of the supremacy of fashionable slip-slop) "wrote things!”
― Emma Robinson, Mauleverer s Divorce, Vol. 2 of 3: A Story of Woman's Wrongs

“If your query returns a small number of rows but filters inefficiently, the database might still have to scan a large portion of the table and sort all those matching rows, which involves temporary memory, CPU, and often some significant amount of disk I/O - especially without an index on the field you're ordering by. Keep this in mind when considering whether to sort the results of your query using .orderBy() or .orderByDesc(), and be sure never to do so either willily, or nillily.”
― Tim Woodruff, ServiceNow Development Handbook - 4th Edition: A compendium of ServiceNow "NOW" platform development and architecture pro-tips, guidelines, and best practices