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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398916 More actions · Answer 1

GilaMonster (11/2/2010)
Grant Fritchey (11/2/2010)
For those who don't know, several of our locals are up for an award at SQLServerPedia for blog posts done over the last year. Gail is in three different categories and looks good to win two of them. I'm in two and actually possibly a contender in one. Please support us, or whoever you think is better, and go vote.
Big thank you to everyone here who has voted, I'm now second overall (for a little while anyway) :w00t: 😎 :w00t:

And my thanks to the voters too. I'm leading my Category, which when one considers who I'm competing with, is all I can expect.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398916 More actions · Answer 2

CirquedeSQLeil (11/2/2010)
GilaMonster (11/2/2010)
Grant Fritchey (11/2/2010)
For those who don't know, several of our locals are up for an award at SQLServerPedia for blog posts done over the last year. Gail is in three different categories and looks good to win two of them. I'm in two and actually possibly a contender in one. Please support us, or whoever you think is better, and go vote.
Big thank you to everyone here who has voted, I'm now second overall (for a little while anyway) :w00t: 😎 :w00t:
Hey - how about throwing some votes my way too!!!

You got my vote for new blogger already.

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- Theodore Roosevelt

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398916 More actions · Answer 3

Kit G (11/2/2010)
Roy Ernest (11/2/2010)
Tail of Tropical Storm Tomas hit Curacao (My island) leaving 3 people dead, lots material damage, 280 mm of rain and lightning. We are expecting more rain tonight. No power at home. Our house got hit by lightning yesterday night. It is a mess here now.
Yeeouch. Glad you and yours are okay. Hope the power comes back soon and there isn't much more rain headed your way. Are electrical systems in your house damaged by the lightning? Hope it's easy to fix if it is. Best wishes to you and yours and everyone else down there getting rained on by Tomas.

Yeah, please, stay safe Roy

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

Grant Fritchey (11/2/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (11/2/2010)
GilaMonster (11/2/2010)
Grant Fritchey (11/2/2010)
For those who don't know, several of our locals are up for an award at SQLServerPedia for blog posts done over the last year. Gail is in three different categories and looks good to win two of them. I'm in two and actually possibly a contender in one. Please support us, or whoever you think is better, and go vote.
Big thank you to everyone here who has voted, I'm now second overall (for a little while anyway) :w00t: 😎 :w00t:
Hey - how about throwing some votes my way too!!!
You got my vote for new blogger already.

Woot

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 5

Roy Ernest (11/2/2010)
Tail of Tropical Storm Tomas hit Curacao (My island) leaving 3 people dead, lots material damage, 280 mm of rain and lightning. We are expecting more rain tonight. No power at home. Our house got hit by lightning yesterday night. It is a mess here now.

Wow Roy, we'll be praying for you and your family

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How best to post your question[/url]
How to post performance problems[/url]
Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 6

Thank You. I saw some sunlight about 5 minutes back. So that is a good sign. 🙂 After 24 hrs.. 🙂

-Roy

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 7

Roy Ernest

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November 2, 2010 at 2:24 pm

#1245725

Voted for all 3 of you ... 🙂

-Roy

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

Roy Ernest (11/2/2010)
Voted for all 3 of you ... 🙂

thanks

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events

Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 9

Roy Ernest (11/2/2010)
Thank You. I saw some sunlight about 5 minutes back. So that is a good sign. 🙂 After 24 hrs.. 🙂

Must have been one wild ride. Glad you're well!

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004441 More actions · Answer 10

GSquared (11/2/2010)
Of course, alcohol will sterilize water too,

Oh, be careful now. There are 3 basic types of alcohol... two can easily make you go blind or kill you.

--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.

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 11

Jeff Moden (11/2/2010)
GSquared (11/2/2010)
Of course, alcohol will sterilize water too,
Oh, be careful now. There are 3 basic types of alcohol... two can easily make you go blind or kill you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210

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How best to post your question[/url]
How to post performance problems[/url]
Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 12

Jeff Moden (11/2/2010)
Grant Fritchey (11/2/2010)
For those who don't know, several of our locals are up for an award at SQLServerPedia for blog posts done over the last year. Gail is in three different categories and looks good to win two of them. I'm in two and actually possibly a contender in one. Please support us, or whoever you think is better, and go vote.
Thanks.
Grant... the link doesn't work. At least for me, it doesn't.

It worked for me - maybe Grant fixed it before I saw it.

Tom

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19256 More actions · Answer 13

I wouldn't say that. There's still a week of voting and the down votes make changes happen quick. Someone can vote up another guy and vote me down and the switch is 2 points in that direction. This one, really doesn't matter, but I'm with Hudson, I like winning, it's better than losing.

It looks like they've removed the ability to down-vote, making a much better competition. I don't see any articles that warrant a negative vote.

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173083 More actions · Answer 14

Just got me a Dev copy of R2 and am uninstalling the regular 2k8 eval copy from my laptop now. Gonna play, gonna play.

I'm debating on getting a Dev copy of regular 2k8 too. Anyone know if I can have both without them hating each other the way 2k5 Express tends to cause problems for 2k5 other editions? Or has anyone actually tried that yet?

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135381 More actions · Answer 15

Brandie Tarvin (11/3/2010)
Just got me a Dev copy of R2 and am uninstalling the regular 2k8 eval copy from my laptop now. Gonna play, gonna play.
I'm debating on getting a Dev copy of regular 2k8 too. Anyone know if I can have both without them hating each other the way 2k5 Express tends to cause problems for 2k5 other editions? Or has anyone actually tried that yet?

I did uninstall my sql2008dev before installing my sql2008R2dev.

But then again, I have SQL2000pe, SQL2005Dev and SQL2008R2Dev installed on my laptop.

I only start the instance I want to play with 😉

And if things don't work like I would expect, in RDP to a dev box :Whistling:

Johan

Learn to play, play to learn !

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