March 25, 2011 at 8:50 am
GSquared (3/25/2011)
I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.
RBDM!
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
March 25, 2011 at 8:58 am
At risk of turning this into a technical discussion again. Aren't bulk insert operations minimally logged? Haven't they been since at least SQL 2000?
I ask because a MS document I'm reading says:
Eager Write
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 uses eager writes to post data pages associated with nonlogged operations (commonly bulk insert/select into).
Now I wonder if this is where the myth that bulk insert isn't logged comes from. Assuming that I'm correct about the minimal logging, that is.
March 25, 2011 at 9:05 am
Brandie Tarvin (3/25/2011)
At risk of turning this into a technical discussion again. Aren't bulk insert operations minimally logged? Haven't they been since at least SQL 2000?
In bulk-logged and simple recovery models, yes, providing some conditions hold true. Fully logged in full recovery
I ask because a MS document I'm reading says:
Eager Write
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 uses eager writes to post data pages associated with nonlogged operations (commonly bulk insert/select into).
Now I wonder if this is where the myth that bulk insert isn't logged comes from. Assuming that I'm correct about the minimal logging, that is.
Probably a left-over from an earlier edition (like 6.5 or earlier). I know there were unlogged operations in the earlier versions.
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
March 25, 2011 at 9:14 am
Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
[I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.What do you think of 3E and 4E or are you still playing with the original hardcovers? Or with the original booklets?! Do you ever run other systems?
3E was much better than 2E (too much math in that edition). I REALLY like 4E. 1st level wizards aren't single-shot muskets any more in that one, and the melee classes are MUCH more interesting to play. The DMG is finally a working definition of what it means to DM, instead of just "these are the rules the players aren't supposed to know but probably have memorized anyway". Much needed improvement. Monster Manual is a bit of a pain to look stuff up in, but it's not that big a deal (needs better indexes).
I haven't run much outside of 4E D&D recently, but I've run all prior D&D versions, Shadowrun, Vampire/Werewolf/Mage (all the White Wolf stuff), Gamma World (old version, not the 4E one), Top Secret, The Fantasy Trip, GURPS, Star Wars, and a few others. I also have my own system that I use for interactive storytelling that works well when you don't have paper or dice available (Kit and I used to do this while walking to work). Mostly for RP, but wherever dice are needed, I pick a number and a range, tell the player(s) to pick a number in the range, and the closer they are to the number I'm thinking of, the better the results. Works well enough.
I'm currently putting together a 4E world that's younger than most. The world isn't a finished product yet, as in the gods and primordial elementals are still wearing hard hats and even squabling over who's in charge of what. They don't even have geography fully ironed out yet, with landmasses not only in a bit of flux, but some are not connected directly to the rest of the world yet. Continents and seas that are, for all practical purposes, floating in the sky, because they haven't yet decided which ones connect to which other ones. Got part of the idea from an incomplete puzzle, with some bits hooked together, but the final picture still unclear, and no box cover to guide you. Even the historical timeline is in a bit of flux, with parts of the world older than other parts, even if some of the "older" parts were created later than "younger" parts, since the history can be part of the creation (got that idea from "scientific creationism" and the whole thing of "maybe the fossiles were created with partial carbon decay already in place"). Should be interesting when/if I start playtesting with it. Allows for all kinds of fantastical elements, all within the same setting.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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March 25, 2011 at 9:17 am
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.RBDM!
You lost me. I'm assuming RBDM != "Risk-Based Decision Making" here, but has something to do with dungeon mastering, but I can't think of what.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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March 25, 2011 at 9:23 am
GSquared (3/25/2011)
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.RBDM!
You lost me. I'm assuming RBDM != "Risk-Based Decision Making" here, but has something to do with dungeon mastering, but I can't think of what.
Rat Bastard DM.
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
March 25, 2011 at 9:33 am
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.RBDM!
You lost me. I'm assuming RBDM != "Risk-Based Decision Making" here, but has something to do with dungeon mastering, but I can't think of what.
Rat Bastard DM.
Ah! Yes, if the players don't at least occassionally think that, then you're not doing it right.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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March 25, 2011 at 9:49 am
GSquared (3/25/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
[I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.What do you think of 3E and 4E or are you still playing with the original hardcovers? Or with the original booklets?! Do you ever run other systems?
3E was much better than 2E (too much math in that edition). I REALLY like 4E. 1st level wizards aren't single-shot muskets any more in that one, and the melee classes are MUCH more interesting to play. The DMG is finally a working definition of what it means to DM, instead of just "these are the rules the players aren't supposed to know but probably have memorized anyway". Much needed improvement. Monster Manual is a bit of a pain to look stuff up in, but it's not that big a deal (needs better indexes).
I haven't run much outside of 4E D&D recently, but I've run all prior D&D versions, Shadowrun, Vampire/Werewolf/Mage (all the White Wolf stuff), Gamma World (old version, not the 4E one), Top Secret, The Fantasy Trip, GURPS, Star Wars, and a few others. I also have my own system that I use for interactive storytelling that works well when you don't have paper or dice available (Kit and I used to do this while walking to work). Mostly for RP, but wherever dice are needed, I pick a number and a range, tell the player(s) to pick a number in the range, and the closer they are to the number I'm thinking of, the better the results. Works well enough.
I'm currently putting together a 4E world that's younger than most. The world isn't a finished product yet, as in the gods and primordial elementals are still wearing hard hats and even squabling over who's in charge of what. They don't even have geography fully ironed out yet, with landmasses not only in a bit of flux, but some are not connected directly to the rest of the world yet. Continents and seas that are, for all practical purposes, floating in the sky, because they haven't yet decided which ones connect to which other ones. Got part of the idea from an incomplete puzzle, with some bits hooked together, but the final picture still unclear, and no box cover to guide you. Even the historical timeline is in a bit of flux, with parts of the world older than other parts, even if some of the "older" parts were created later than "younger" parts, since the history can be part of the creation (got that idea from "scientific creationism" and the whole thing of "maybe the fossiles were created with partial carbon decay already in place"). Should be interesting when/if I start playtesting with it. Allows for all kinds of fantastical elements, all within the same setting.
No superheroes? Villains & Vigilantes, Champions, etc...? How about Paranioa?
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
March 25, 2011 at 9:50 am
Jeff Moden (3/24/2011)
Grant Fritchey (3/24/2011)
Jeff Moden (3/24/2011)
Oh, very cool... I just found out that one of my favorite novels is going to be made into a movie. "The Martian Tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs" which some people know as "John Carter of Mars". There are 11 "books" to the Novel. I've not done much research on which book they're actually going to do but I've been waiting for this for a long time. I hope it's not book #11 because that was pretty well screwed up. Most people believe that Burroughs didn't even write that one.I also hope they don't screw up the movie with cheap tricks. One book I really enjoyed was "At the Earth's Core" (also by Burroughs) and the idiots that made the movie really screwed it up. It worse than most "B" movies I've ever seen.
For those that don't remember, Burroughs also wrote the famous Tarzan series which, of course, has been serialized into multiple old black'n'white movies, more modern "color" flicks, and even cartoon based movies like what Disney did.
John Carter of Mars was also serialized in comic books way back when. Anyone remember the "Zeta" beam?
BTW, there was already one made that went straight to video. It was pretty bad. My son and I sat and watched it one night. I do love a "good" b-movie every so often.
If it's anything like what they did to "At the Earth's Core", I believe I'll have to pass. That move sucked so bad that it had it's own gravity field. 😛
No, they honestly made an effort to follow the book. It was a seriously failed and flawed effort, but at least they tried.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
March 25, 2011 at 9:51 am
Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
[I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.What do you think of 3E and 4E or are you still playing with the original hardcovers? Or with the original booklets?! Do you ever run other systems?
3E was much better than 2E (too much math in that edition). I REALLY like 4E. 1st level wizards aren't single-shot muskets any more in that one, and the melee classes are MUCH more interesting to play. The DMG is finally a working definition of what it means to DM, instead of just "these are the rules the players aren't supposed to know but probably have memorized anyway". Much needed improvement. Monster Manual is a bit of a pain to look stuff up in, but it's not that big a deal (needs better indexes).
I haven't run much outside of 4E D&D recently, but I've run all prior D&D versions, Shadowrun, Vampire/Werewolf/Mage (all the White Wolf stuff), Gamma World (old version, not the 4E one), Top Secret, The Fantasy Trip, GURPS, Star Wars, and a few others. I also have my own system that I use for interactive storytelling that works well when you don't have paper or dice available (Kit and I used to do this while walking to work). Mostly for RP, but wherever dice are needed, I pick a number and a range, tell the player(s) to pick a number in the range, and the closer they are to the number I'm thinking of, the better the results. Works well enough.
I'm currently putting together a 4E world that's younger than most. The world isn't a finished product yet, as in the gods and primordial elementals are still wearing hard hats and even squabling over who's in charge of what. They don't even have geography fully ironed out yet, with landmasses not only in a bit of flux, but some are not connected directly to the rest of the world yet. Continents and seas that are, for all practical purposes, floating in the sky, because they haven't yet decided which ones connect to which other ones. Got part of the idea from an incomplete puzzle, with some bits hooked together, but the final picture still unclear, and no box cover to guide you. Even the historical timeline is in a bit of flux, with parts of the world older than other parts, even if some of the "older" parts were created later than "younger" parts, since the history can be part of the creation (got that idea from "scientific creationism" and the whole thing of "maybe the fossiles were created with partial carbon decay already in place"). Should be interesting when/if I start playtesting with it. Allows for all kinds of fantastical elements, all within the same setting.
No superheroes? Villains & Vigilantes, Champions, etc...? How about Paranioa?
Champions and their later attempt at a sort of GURPS system. Tried out V&V for an evening or so one time, but as a player, not a DM. Had a copy of Paranoia, but couldn't convince anyone to let me either play or DM, probably out of some desperate need to retain a vestige of sanity on their part. 🙂
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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March 25, 2011 at 9:55 am
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
WayneS (3/25/2011)
Need an app that adds an "unused" folder to your system, takes a screen shot of the desktop, moves all icons to the unused folder, and replaces the background with the screen shot just taken.Why doesn't anything work when I click on it?
I did that once (windows 95). Fun.
Then someone tried to do it to me. However my machine was running an alternate windows shell (not explorer) and they couldn't find paint, let alone control panel. :hehe:
lol
We had a coworker go on vacation, so the team moved all her files on the shared drive into another folder, then left one text file that said "Your last action has successfully deleted all files in this folder", which she actually believed for several hours.
Not the way to come back from vacation...believe it or not, I actually abstained from that one, too mean.
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March 25, 2011 at 9:55 am
GSquared (3/25/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
[I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.What do you think of 3E and 4E or are you still playing with the original hardcovers? Or with the original booklets?! Do you ever run other systems?
3E was much better than 2E (too much math in that edition). I REALLY like 4E. 1st level wizards aren't single-shot muskets any more in that one, and the melee classes are MUCH more interesting to play. The DMG is finally a working definition of what it means to DM, instead of just "these are the rules the players aren't supposed to know but probably have memorized anyway". Much needed improvement. Monster Manual is a bit of a pain to look stuff up in, but it's not that big a deal (needs better indexes).
I haven't run much outside of 4E D&D recently, but I've run all prior D&D versions, Shadowrun, Vampire/Werewolf/Mage (all the White Wolf stuff), Gamma World (old version, not the 4E one), Top Secret, The Fantasy Trip, GURPS, Star Wars, and a few others. I also have my own system that I use for interactive storytelling that works well when you don't have paper or dice available (Kit and I used to do this while walking to work). Mostly for RP, but wherever dice are needed, I pick a number and a range, tell the player(s) to pick a number in the range, and the closer they are to the number I'm thinking of, the better the results. Works well enough.
I'm currently putting together a 4E world that's younger than most. The world isn't a finished product yet, as in the gods and primordial elementals are still wearing hard hats and even squabling over who's in charge of what. They don't even have geography fully ironed out yet, with landmasses not only in a bit of flux, but some are not connected directly to the rest of the world yet. Continents and seas that are, for all practical purposes, floating in the sky, because they haven't yet decided which ones connect to which other ones. Got part of the idea from an incomplete puzzle, with some bits hooked together, but the final picture still unclear, and no box cover to guide you. Even the historical timeline is in a bit of flux, with parts of the world older than other parts, even if some of the "older" parts were created later than "younger" parts, since the history can be part of the creation (got that idea from "scientific creationism" and the whole thing of "maybe the fossiles were created with partial carbon decay already in place"). Should be interesting when/if I start playtesting with it. Allows for all kinds of fantastical elements, all within the same setting.
No superheroes? Villains & Vigilantes, Champions, etc...? How about Paranioa?
Champions and their later attempt at a sort of GURPS system. Tried out V&V for an evening or so one time, but as a player, not a DM. Had a copy of Paranoia, but couldn't convince anyone to let me either play or DM, probably out of some desperate need to retain a vestige of sanity on their part. 🙂
I still like V&V for the hilarity of random character generation. The results from rolling up all your powers is a fun way to spend time with friends.
I used to enjoy Paranoia because it used to let me start game sessions when no-one expected it. Just look to someone and say "What do you do?" and the game is off and running.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
March 25, 2011 at 9:56 am
Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
jcrawf02 (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
I just realised I don't have an April Fools day blog post planned. 🙁So start a completely serious post with, "I had this idea for an April Fools post ..." Leave everyone wondering where the joke is. Inverted "gotcha".
Your evil continues to amuse me. 😀
I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.
What do you think of 3E and 4E or are you still playing with the original hardcovers? Or with the original booklets?! Do you ever run other systems?
I just want to know who bought a Surface table to play on...
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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."
March 25, 2011 at 9:58 am
jcrawf02 (3/25/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
jcrawf02 (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
I just realised I don't have an April Fools day blog post planned. 🙁So start a completely serious post with, "I had this idea for an April Fools post ..." Leave everyone wondering where the joke is. Inverted "gotcha".
Your evil continues to amuse me. 😀
I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.
What do you think of 3E and 4E or are you still playing with the original hardcovers? Or with the original booklets?! Do you ever run other systems?
I just want to know who bought a Surface table to play on...
Surface table?
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
March 25, 2011 at 9:59 am
jcrawf02 (3/25/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
jcrawf02 (3/25/2011)
GSquared (3/25/2011)
GilaMonster (3/25/2011)
I just realised I don't have an April Fools day blog post planned. 🙁So start a completely serious post with, "I had this idea for an April Fools post ..." Leave everyone wondering where the joke is. Inverted "gotcha".
Your evil continues to amuse me. 😀
I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.
What do you think of 3E and 4E or are you still playing with the original hardcovers? Or with the original booklets?! Do you ever run other systems?
I just want to know who bought a Surface table to play on...
Ooooohhhhh, I WISH!!! That was the first thing I thought of when I saw a demo of that thing. Made me wonder if the engineers were gamers.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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