October 2, 2010 at 3:31 am
WayneS (10/2/2010)
Congrats! Where are you moving to?
Just locally, 5km or so. The new place is on the hillside overlooking the Tasman Sea and Kapiti Island.
October 2, 2010 at 4:09 am
Hey guys, thanks for dumping a load of... something into my in box. What the heck were you guys smoking in here last night?
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October 2, 2010 at 5:52 am
It's this race to 1mm posts and 20k in the Thread that has people fooling around.
October 2, 2010 at 8:04 am
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 - buying or just moving?
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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October 2, 2010 at 8:06 am
Steve Jones - Editor (10/2/2010)
It's this race to 1mm posts and 20k in the Thread that has people fooling around.
Shhh - it was supposed to be an ancient Chinese secret.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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October 2, 2010 at 8:07 am
Grant Fritchey (10/2/2010)
Hey guys, thanks for dumping a load of... something into my in box. What the heck were you guys smoking in here last night?
No need for any substance here:-D
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
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October 2, 2010 at 8:22 am
CirquedeSQLeil (10/2/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/2/2010)
Hey guys, thanks for dumping a load of... something into my in box. What the heck were you guys smoking in here last night?No need for any substance here:-D
Need? No. Want?
The less said in public, the better. Wouldn't want the forum police to smite us for biltong blasphemy... @=)
October 2, 2010 at 8:42 am
Brandie Tarvin (10/2/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (10/2/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/2/2010)
Hey guys, thanks for dumping a load of... something into my in box. What the heck were you guys smoking in here last night?No need for any substance here:-D
Need? No. Want?
The less said in public, the better. Wouldn't want the forum police to smite us for biltong blasphemy... @=)
Biltongonous blasphemer
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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SQL RNNR
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October 2, 2010 at 9:51 am
Paul White NZ (10/2/2010)
WayneS (10/2/2010)
Congrats! Where are you moving to?Just locally, 5km or so. The new place is on the hillside overlooking the Tasman Sea and Kapiti Island.
Looks gorgeous. I envy you your view!
Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes
October 2, 2010 at 6:37 pm
WayneS (10/2/2010)
Looks gorgeous. I envy you your view!
Maybe, but you wouldn't have envied me and Justin carrying a sofa and six-burner BBQ up the stairs this morning. Comedy.
October 3, 2010 at 1:11 am
Paul White NZ (10/2/2010)
WayneS (10/2/2010)
Looks gorgeous. I envy you your view!Maybe, but you wouldn't have envied me and Justin carrying a sofa and six-burner BBQ up the stairs this morning. Comedy.
Heh, been there done that - even with a piano. Nope - no envy at all. Picture being on the down end of the piano going up the stairs - only person holding it there, and everybody else takes a break. Yup - fun times.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events
October 3, 2010 at 1:50 am
CirquedeSQLeil (10/3/2010)
Picture being on the down end of the piano going up the stairs - only person holding it there, and everybody else takes a break. Yup - fun times.
Ouch!
October 3, 2010 at 2:03 am
Thats sqlbits all over with now , great conference. My talk seemed to go pretty well, room full of blank faces when i asked "who uses tally tables". Just hope i didnt suck to much, now waiting for the feedback forms.
October 3, 2010 at 2:16 am
Paul White NZ (10/2/2010)
WayneS (10/2/2010)
Looks gorgeous. I envy you your view!Maybe, but you wouldn't have envied me and Justin carrying a sofa and six-burner BBQ up the stairs this morning. Comedy.
I remember trying to get a 35kg barbell set up 2 flights of stairs. Took a while...
When I moved in to my current place, it took 4 strong people to get my desk up the stairs and inside. It was almost too large to fit through the door. The sofas were almost as large a challenge
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
October 3, 2010 at 6:19 am
Today I wanted to fnd out where hashbytes has got to in 2008 R2, so I looked it up (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174415.aspx).
I was appalled by what I found - the hashbytes function is pretty useless if you want a government approved secure hash.
It's now more than four and a half years since (on March 15 2006) NIST instructed Federal Agencies to stop using SHA1 as soon as possible for most applications and start using the SHA2 family of hashes (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512) instead, and proposed that from the beginning of 2011 (less than 3 months from now) use of SHA1 for anything other than HMACs (excluding digital signatures and digital timestamps and anything else that needs a collision resistance better than about 50 bits), KDFs, and PRNGs would be forbidden (and even where not forbidden, SHA1 is deprecated). But SQL Server still supports only MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA and SHA1. That means that there's a large range of applications for which SQL Server should not be used by Federal Agencies simply because it does not support the required functions, unless the Agency is prepared to code around the problem and provide its own hashing functions. And of course the USA is not the only country where government agencies are required (note that I don't say "expected": long experience has led me to expect performance of most government agencies to be well below requirements) to do things properly. So that doesn't look too good for SQL Server.
Anyone know of any MS plans to improve in this area?
Tom
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