When I read Bob Pusateri invite to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, it brought me back to my college days where I actually studied Thermal Dynamics and what the Coefficent of Thermal Expansion was. I will admit that I didn’t have a clue (too many years gone by) and had to look it up.
So for you fellow nerds out there: Coefficient of Thermal Dynamics is the degree of expansion divided by the change in temperature in some sort of material. Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation on it. I did have a brief (real brief) thought about trying to determine what the coefficient of the hard drive might be while running a SQL CTE, but then I realized that I wouldn’t even know where to start with that. Plus, that would probably make this post a very long read, so I ditched that idea. Ah well, moving on!