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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736642 More actions · Answer 1

Definitely not SQL related, but my kid got his black belt today. Very proud of him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtIOe4IsUq8

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 2

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/22/2011)
Definitely not SQL related, but my kid got his black belt today. Very proud of him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtIOe4IsUq8

Congratulations to you and to the kid. A black belt is a valuable achievement whatever it's a black belt in (which you haven't told us).

But, I guess someone will ask so it may as well be me, which sport is it a black belt for? From what I can see, the dress is not what used to be used for Judo, or for Ju Jutsu, or for Aikido. There are no weapons visible to suggest Kendo or anything of that ilk. The wall marking seems to be a general "Martial Arts" thing, something I've never seen before, is there now a black belt in "general martial arts" for juniors (that's my best guess, I suppose) and if so what does it comprise - which martial arts are involved, and how does the junior grading work (we had enormous problems with that question for Judo in the UK a few decades ago, leading to even more disagreement between TAIJJA and BJA than there was before junior grading became an issue, with some traditionalists in the BJA who handled gradings determined to ensure that the transition from the BJA mon grades [invented to replace the traditional kyu grades] to adult [kyu and dan] grades was completely screwed up - and on the whole succeding quite well in the early days).

Tom

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

Tom.Thomson (1/22/2011)
But, I guess someone will ask so it may as well be me, which sport is it a black belt for?

Steve does karate iirc

Gail Shaw
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SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004441 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/22/2011)
Definitely not SQL related, but my kid got his black belt today. Very proud of him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtIOe4IsUq8

Very cool. Congrats to both of 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.

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)

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398916 More actions · Answer 5

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/22/2011)
Definitely not SQL related, but my kid got his black belt today. Very proud of him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtIOe4IsUq8

Congratulations to you both. That's quite the achievment.

"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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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004441 More actions · Answer 6

Slight departure from the norm on this thread. One of our own made an absolute killing on a nasty problem. See "mister.magoo"s final code post on the following thread. It's bloody genius at work...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1049892-392-1.aspx

Well done, Magoo!

--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)

Shawn Melton SSC-Insane Points: 24685 More actions · Answer 7

poojasharma.psoft

This guy is borderline spamming or is really proud of the courses he took at this place. He is also posting to post that are 2 or more years old.

Shawn Melton
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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259135 More actions · Answer 8

ALZDBA (1/22/2011)
enjoying star wars episodeIII for the moment. scene = the assembly of darth vader :w00t:

I saw the movie also 🙂

I hope they also rerun the original 3 episodes in the following weeks.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 9

Shawn Melton (1/23/2011)
poojasharma.psoft
This guy is borderline spamming or is really proud of the courses he took at this place. He is also posting to post that are 2 or more years old.

They're reported

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

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65144 More actions · Answer 10

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/22/2011)
Definitely not SQL related, but my kid got his black belt today. Very proud of him.

Excellent, send my congrats to him 🙂

I felt the same when my son got his black belt (Ju Jitsu) 😀

My wife also is a black belt and has been weapon training and now has her own Katana :Wow:

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

mister.magoo SSC-Forever Points: 47174 More actions · Answer 11

Jeff Moden (1/23/2011)
Slight departure from the norm on this thread. One of our own made an absolute killing on a nasty problem. See "mister.magoo"s final code post on the following thread. It's bloody genius at work...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1049892-392-1.aspx
Well done, Magoo!

thanks for those kind words Jeff.

MM

select geometry::STGeomFromWKB(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

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 12

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/22/2011)
Definitely not SQL related, but my kid got his black belt today. Very proud of him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtIOe4IsUq8

Congrats to both of you... Well done.

-Roy

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004441 More actions · Answer 13

mister.magoo (1/24/2011)
Jeff Moden (1/23/2011)
Slight departure from the norm on this thread. One of our own made an absolute killing on a nasty problem. See "mister.magoo"s final code post on the following thread. It's bloody genius at work...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1049892-392-1.aspx
Well done, Magoo!
thanks for those kind words Jeff.

You should write an article about it, Magoo. It's a classic example of where "doing things all in one query" is absolutely the wrong way to go. It's also an example of where "set based" thinking merges with Row-by-Row action and, most definitely, a good example of where "It Depends" comes into play to the max.

Me? I've got these sugar plums dancing in my head and I need to experiment with what you've done. Maybe there's a way to do a MERGE with this that will blow MERGE out of the water or create a hierarchical path from an Adjacency List more quickly.

Another clever thing you've done that (IIRC) adds a bit of speed... you were able to avoid BEGIN/END in the WHILE loop.

I don't mean to make it so your head can't fit through the door but I've got to say it again... absolutely brilliant code, Magoo.

--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: 1004441 More actions · Answer 14

Roy Ernest (1/24/2011)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/22/2011)
Definitely not SQL related, but my kid got his black belt today. Very proud of him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtIOe4IsUq8
Congrats to both of you... Well done.

Speaking of "well done", nice job on the "remote meeting" article, Roy. 🙂

--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)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736642 More actions · Answer 15

We both do kenpo karate, about 4 years for him. I've studied a few more arts, but this was a good local fit for my son. Lots of Muy Thai and Gracie jujitsu influence for our teacher.