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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 737034 More actions · Answer 1

You guys are killing me today. I fly to KC and get off the plane with hundreds of notifications.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

Steve Jones - Editor (10/1/2010)
You guys are killing me today. I fly to KC and get off the plane with hundreds of notifications.

Heh... no whining. 😛

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

Roy Ernest (10/1/2010)
I just wanted to let you all know that Jeff Moden gave a great presentation for our user group yesterday using Netmeeting. Everyone loved it. And they like the idea of Netmeeting as well. Thanks Jeff for taking time to give us this presentation. 🙂
I talked to couple of guys today morning and they want you back... 😀

Ah, thanks Roy. You made it all very easy with the time you took to figure out how to do it all. You've got a good group of folks there, Roy. They made me feel right at home. I think it would be a really cool thing if you wrote an article on how you did it all. It would be a big help to other PASS Chapter leaders.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 4

Stefan Krzywicki (10/1/2010)
Jeff Moden (9/30/2010)
Kit G (9/30/2010)
WayneS (9/30/2010)
Steve Jones - Editor (9/30/2010)
You can pay at the door. I'll have Grant standing there intimidating people into giving up $30 or a ticket :-P:w00t:
If he's in his kilt you might have people running away from it! :w00t:
Hey! Kilts are sexy! (But you do need the socks that are part of the ensemble.)
Ok, Kit... you brought it up. Why do women think that kilts on men is sexy?
I would have to guess it is for similar reasons for why men think skirts on women are sexy.

Heh... Maybe... but I'm actually not interested in what a guy thinks about it. 😉

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Steve Jones - Editor (10/1/2010)
Roy Ernest (10/1/2010)
I just wanted to let you all know that Jeff Moden gave a great presentation for our user group yesterday using Netmeeting. Everyone loved it. And they like the idea of Netmeeting as well. Thanks Jeff for taking time to give us this presentation. 🙂
I talked to couple of guys today morning and they want you back... 😀
Woo-hoo! Congrats Jeff, and thanks for helping the community.

Thanks Steve. I've really got Roy to thank. He did all the leg work and the setup. Now, I'm trying to talk Roy into writing an article as to how he did it all including getting the net meeting account that all Pass Chapters can be provided.

I've always known that such a remote meeting could be done with net meeting but haven't actually done one before. It was actually very easy as a speaker. The only bad part about it is you don't actually get to go someplace different in person. It DOES, however, save a huge amount on travel $$$ and hotel $$$. It was great but not quite as good as actually being there.

It COULD be a great enhancement to SQL Saturdays... you might get more of the big dogs to speak if they didn't have to travel to do it.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (10/1/2010)
jcrawf02 (10/1/2010)
Just realized the solution, I'll have to find a carrier pigeon to tie a flash drive to and send it your way.... 😉
I look forward to the delivery. It would be faster than me trying to download them. :w00t: :hehe:
Though, was fairly impressed with the download of 2008 SP2 last night. Averaged around 55kb/s. Took just under 2 hours to download 350MB. Must have been a local cached copy, it would not have been that fast downloading from source.

Gosh... seems to me that I remember some sort of actual test along those lines from somewhere in the UK. It had to do with doing a remote restore from a large set of DB's. The carrier pigeon won by a lot.

I did something similar when I had to move a handful of servers from Michigan to New York except the preverbial pigeon took a plane.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 7

Luke L (10/1/2010)
Roy Ernest (10/1/2010)
I just wanted to let you all know that Jeff Moden gave a great presentation for our user group yesterday using Netmeeting. Everyone loved it. And they like the idea of Netmeeting as well. Thanks Jeff for taking time to give us this presentation. 🙂
I talked to couple of guys today morning and they want you back... 😀
Any chance there is a recording posted somewhere?
-Luke.

That may be the one thing that both of us forgot to do... hit the record button.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 8

Craig Farrell (10/1/2010)
While we're on the subject of sample data, anyone know where I can get 300,000+ records of description data with 400-6000 character average ( no, I didn't lose the zero 🙂 ) ? I put up a post a while ago but it died the ugly death of the shrug, I dunno...
Could be anything for what I want, car auction descriptions, personal ads, etc. Anything with commonly repeated characters as words (ie: obo is a word in classified ads). Trying to work out an alternate search algorithm but I never seem to get my hands on something that large that's *not* proprietary. The public IMBD was close but that's a tragedy to try to reformat into something usable. I just need to make sure it's open data in case I need to distribute the test harness.

Not sure it'll help but the text from Moby Dick is online somewhere. Just google for it.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 9

CirquedeSQLeil (10/1/2010)
On a different note, I have finally broken into the Top 8 posters.

Whup! Well done, Jason!

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

Kit G (10/1/2010)
Jeff Moden (9/30/2010)
Kit G (9/30/2010)
WayneS (9/30/2010)
Steve Jones - Editor (9/30/2010)
You can pay at the door. I'll have Grant standing there intimidating people into giving up $30 or a ticket :-P:w00t:
If he's in his kilt you might have people running away from it! :w00t:
Hey! Kilts are sexy! (But you do need the socks that are part of the ensemble.)
Ok, Kit... you brought it up. Why do women think that kilts on men is sexy?
Heh, yes I did. It is hard to explain exactly why I think Kilts are sexy. It could be because of the Scottish blood that runs through my veins that allows me to like bagpipe music (played well, that is). Just as a side note, I am also a sucker for a good fitting tux. Do the Prince Charlie vest and kilt (the formal getup for a kilt) and I'm swooning! <sigh>
On the other side of things, given today's cultural fashion, it does take a bit of guts for an American to wear a kilt. Scots don't count as the entire world knows they are crazy. 😉 Given that, it tells me that the guy bucks the system a bit and that catches my eye as well. But, while the kilt does buck the accepted norm, other fashion trends that buck the norm I don't like - most notably the "show my underwear with the waist of my jeans half way down my butt". Ugh, talk about an instant turnoff. Yes, I'm showing my age, but still, what woman wants to get it on with a guy who can't even dress himself properly? I know you have to train guys once you get them, but they should already have the basics down before you get them. 😉
I think kilts are in good taste (but you do need the socks to go with them). Bare legs with a kilt just doesn't cut it. :w00t: A kilt gives a good shape to the body. And there is this as well, a kilt takes a bit of care to maintain and wear properly. If a guy can do that, he scores a few points in the "Can he take care of me?" department as a potential mate. That is one of the things that does determine "sexy/attractive". Does the attribute in question say "I can take care of you and support you and any children we have"?
That said, fashion is a very subjective subject. I like a guy in a tux because it puts some very nice lines on the male body. I don't really like the overly-muscled types, however, I can admire Arnie's body when he was in his prime. There are reasons he took Mr. Universe four years in a row. But then, with Arnie's body, it was all in proportion. I happen to like kilts and I think guys who wear them are sexy. I know others have very different opinions.
That might or might not answer your question, but I figured it was better than saying "Kilts are sexy because!" 😀

And I DID ask. Yes. That answers my question. Thanks for the bit of insight, Kit.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 11

Trey Staker (10/1/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/1/2010)
Jason,
After looking at that thread you just posted in, I think it's time to write up a best practice for SSIS configuration and deployment.
I'm getting tired of reading about how some people have such a hard time doing something that can be very simple. What does it take? I only takes a little bit of planning before getting too deep.
Which thread...Jason's posts in almost every thread. jk lol.

Isn't that the truth!

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 12

Craig Farrell (10/1/2010)
GilaMonster (10/1/2010)
Craig Farrell (10/1/2010)
... only 4:12 PM here. 🙂
Shouldn't you be in the pub then? Maybe it's an African thing (I doubt), but friday post 4pm here just about no one is at their desks.
Guess y'all start at one of them ungodly hours of the morning where the word 'dawn' can be involved.

Not at all. 8-5's the norm here, fridays tend to have 5pm come very early.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden (10/1/2010)
GilaMonster (10/1/2010)
jcrawf02 (10/1/2010)
Just realized the solution, I'll have to find a carrier pigeon to tie a flash drive to and send it your way.... 😉
I look forward to the delivery. It would be faster than me trying to download them. :w00t: :hehe:
Though, was fairly impressed with the download of 2008 SP2 last night. Averaged around 55kb/s. Took just under 2 hours to download 350MB. Must have been a local cached copy, it would not have been that fast downloading from source.
Gosh... seems to me that I remember some sort of actual test along those lines from somewhere in the UK. It had to do with doing a remote restore from a large set of DB's. The carrier pigeon won by a lot.

Wasn't from the UK and wasn't that large a set of DBs. I believe it was around 4GB of data and across a 60 mile distance. Took 2 hours to copy onto flash, for the pigeon to fly and for the data to be copied onto the destination server. In that time 160 MB of the data had copied across the ADSL.

There's a local saying. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a bakkie full of backup tapes driving up the M1 highway.

There was another test, several years ago now, where someone found that it was faster and cheaper to download (I think) 20GB or 50GB by flying to Hong Kong, downloading the data at an internet cafe there, burning to DVD and flying home than it was to buy the capacity and download locally.

I know it's certainly faster and cheaper for me to buy an external drive or stack of DVDs while I'm in the USA and download all the large stuff I need than doing it locally.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 14

Local news: Lots of changes on 1 October. GST went up, income tax came down, and Internet bandwidth increased to 15Mbps from 10Mbps. And I'm moving house.

Paul White
All articles available on SQL.kiwi
@SQL_Kiwi

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 15

Paul White NZ (10/2/2010)
Local news: Lots of changes on 1 October. GST went up, income tax came down, and Internet bandwidth increased to 15Mbps from 10Mbps. And I'm moving house.

Congrats! Where are you moving to?

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2