Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

Gianluca Sartori (3/25/2011)
That's not fair. You owe me a copy of your book.

What book? <innocent look>

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

Fal Hall of Fame Points: 3143 More actions · Answer 2

Koen Verbeeck (3/25/2011)
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
Gianluca Sartori (3/25/2011)
Couldn't resist....
AHHHHHHH!!!!! You beat me of a couple of seconds!!!
That's cause I cheated. Hit quote and post, then went back and added something meaningful. 😀
That plan is so cunning you can put a tail on it and call it a weasel!

Or a lizard. 😉

Steve.

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173080 More actions · Answer 3

Are you people TRYING to kill my inbox? @=)

Looking forward to your secret book project, Gail.

Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

Kiara SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4185 More actions · Answer 4

Craig Farrell (3/24/2011)
Craig Farrell (3/24/2011)
Craig Farrell (3/24/2011)
WayneS (3/24/2011)
Almost at 25,000 posts here on The Thread! At today's rate, we'll hit it tonight.
Edit: 36 posts to go. (Watch Alvin post the next 36 messages...)
Now,
two
of

...and suddenly, the 70+ notifications about activity on The Thread that I awoke to this morning make a scary amount of sense...

-Ki

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Brandie Tarvin (3/25/2011)
Are you people TRYING to kill my inbox? @=)

No, but it's an amusing side-project

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

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

Congrats Gail on hitting the 25,000th post... 🙂 Since you hit the mark, you have to give us a present... 🙂 I think there is a good present that we would like to have. Your upcoming BOOK. 🙂

-Roy

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 7

Fal (3/25/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (3/25/2011)
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
That's cause I cheated. Hit quote and post, then went back and added something meaningful. 😀
That plan is so cunning you can put a tail on it and call it a weasel!
Or a lizard. 😉

Boy, it took me quite a while to get that joke :blush:

TGIF

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 8

A positive note to end the (work)week:

my SSIS Denali session is selected for the Belgian Community Day! :w00t:

The Community Day is a joint venture of different Microsoft User Groups. My user group, SQLUG (the Belgian PASS chapter), had to provide 2 sessions about SQL Server, and one of them is mine. W00t! 😎

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

Roy Ernest (3/25/2011)
I think there is a good present that we would like to have. Your upcoming BOOK. 🙂

What book? I'm not writing a book. 😀

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

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 10

GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
Roy Ernest (3/25/2011)
I think there is a good present that we would like to have. Your upcoming BOOK. 🙂
What book? I'm not writing a book. 😀

I wont talk about this "BOOK" if you let me take a sneak preview.... 😉

On another note, if you need help in your book, please, please please ask.. It would be my pleasure to help in which way I can. 🙂

-Roy

Fal Hall of Fame Points: 3143 More actions · Answer 11

I just popped along to the Guiness World Records website to see if we could lodge The Thread under a Longest Web Thread category or similar. There doesn't appear to be a category for that (yet) but neither was the concept on of their "barred" categories either.

Anyone else think this is an idea worth pursuing?

Steve.

Fal Hall of Fame Points: 3143 More actions · Answer 12

GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
Gianluca Sartori (3/25/2011)
Couldn't resist....
AHHHHHHH!!!!! You beat me of a couple of seconds!!!
That's cause I cheated. Hit quote and post, then went back and added something meaningful. 😀

You know, that seems to me to be a form of RBAR. I wouldn't have thought I'd see you engaging in looping practices, Gail. 😛

Steve.

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173080 More actions · Answer 13

Fal (3/25/2011)
I just popped along to the Guiness World Records website to see if we could lodge The Thread under a Longest Web Thread category or similar. There doesn't appear to be a category for that (yet) but neither was the concept on of their "barred" categories either.
Anyone else think this is an idea worth pursuing?

Heh. As soon as the category got created, you know a lot of people would be pushing to beat us.

Still, it might be fun. Get SQL Server Central's name out in the world and all that.

Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 14

Koen Verbeeck (3/25/2011)
Or that Microsoft has traded MS Access for MySQL. Because who needs Access right? 🙂

Hmm, I like that. It passes the first test... believability.

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

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 15

Congrats Gail on 25000! (And I think that this is the first major milestone on The Thread reached by a non-US Threadizen! Congrats again!)

Edit: Added image. Thanks Gianluca for the link!

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