George,


>No you didn't. What you did question was whether or not what I was saying was "common wisdom" or fact. It's fact.

One for your sig,

It's a fact that there is a difference.
It's unfounded 'common wisdom' its significant enough to make a difference.

amen..

>Further, it is a terribly bad practice to rely on undocumented features.

Agreed.

>Don't try to twist this into something I'm using by utilizing SET ENGINEBEHAVIOR. It's not because the usage is documented.

Twisting. I'm not. The scope of the dicussion here is if the MAX() function produced significant overhead.

Walter,