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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 1

jcrawf02 (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Are we there yet?
Damn, two in one day? That's just unfair....

Actually, it's 4 in a day. I also made the round trip to and from work safely. 😛

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
jcrawf02 (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Are we there yet?
Damn, two in one day? That's just unfair....
Actually, it's 4 in a day. I also made the round trip to and from work safely. 😛

Now that you have used up your luck - you won't win the lottery.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398911 More actions · Answer 3

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Maybe I've gone round the bend. Possibly senility has finally kicked in good and hard. Maybe it's just me, but does this sound a little bit nuts to anyone else?
They're planning to:
A) toss normalization
B) Use GUIDs but no other unique constraints
C) Toss RI because it's "too much work"
D) Use triggers for RI instead
Unless I'm completely missing the boat because of encroaching senility, insanity or just plain old stupidity.
You're a Navy guy, SNAFU.

As long as I'm not delusional.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398911 More actions · Answer 4

Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Are we there yet?

See what I miss by trying to have a life & stuff. Gotta stop doing things away from The Thread.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 5

Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Are we there yet?
See what I miss by trying to have a life & stuff. Gotta stop doing things away from The Thread.

There's life outside the Thread? :unsure:

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398911 More actions · Answer 6

Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Are we there yet?
See what I miss by trying to have a life & stuff. Gotta stop doing things away from The Thread.
There's life outside the Thread? :unsure:

Actually I'm volunteering for a election campaign, my first time. I was doing calls tonight. It was suggested by one person that I called, that I perform an act that is anatomically impossible. Good times.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 7

Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Are we there yet?
See what I miss by trying to have a life & stuff. Gotta stop doing things away from The Thread.
There's life outside the Thread? :unsure:
Actually I'm volunteering for a election campaign, my first time. I was doing calls tonight. It was suggested by one person that I called, that I perform an act that is anatomically impossible. Good times.

Someone suggested you rub your ear with your elbow? 😛

Alvin Ramard
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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Are we there yet?
See what I miss by trying to have a life & stuff. Gotta stop doing things away from The Thread.
There's life outside the Thread? :unsure:
Actually I'm volunteering for a election campaign, my first time. I was doing calls tonight. It was suggested by one person that I called, that I perform an act that is anatomically impossible. Good times.

Did you ask them what they would say if you had been calling on behalf of the other party in the election?

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398911 More actions · Answer 9

Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Are we there yet?
See what I miss by trying to have a life & stuff. Gotta stop doing things away from The Thread.
There's life outside the Thread? :unsure:
Actually I'm volunteering for a election campaign, my first time. I was doing calls tonight. It was suggested by one person that I called, that I perform an act that is anatomically impossible. Good times.
Someone suggested you rub your ear with your elbow? 😛

That would be more possible than what was suggested.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398911 More actions · Answer 10

CirquedeSQLeil (10/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (10/6/2010)
Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Are we there yet?
See what I miss by trying to have a life & stuff. Gotta stop doing things away from The Thread.
There's life outside the Thread? :unsure:
Actually I'm volunteering for a election campaign, my first time. I was doing calls tonight. It was suggested by one person that I called, that I perform an act that is anatomically impossible. Good times.
Did you ask them what they would say if you had been calling on behalf of the other party in the election?

Didn't get the chance. They made their pithy remark & hung up.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 11

This has got to take some form of prize. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1000227.aspx

Time to get the crystal ball out again.

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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 12

Could have been worse. OP could have said

Error: -2147218798 😛

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004433 More actions · Answer 13

Hmmm... more than a million posts... congrats SSC and Steve Jones!

I wonder what the distribution on "the thread" is. You know, like Steve did before.

--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.

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173080 More actions · Answer 14

GilaMonster (10/7/2010)
This has got to take some form of prize. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1000227.aspx
Time to get the crystal ball out again.

Apparently it's my turn to feel snippy. I couldn't resist.

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Greg Edwards-268690 SSC-Insane Points: 20680 More actions · Answer 15

Alvin Ramard (10/6/2010)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/6/2010)
Alvin,
Congrats again, and check your email. I sent you a little something as a prize for hitting the mark.
Wow, thanks Steve. i wasn't expecting anything. 🙂

A personal invitation to ThreadAholics Anonymous.....:-D

Both in one day, buy me a lottery ticket.

Greg E