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  • Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    Gail Shaw
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  • GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    Please do - it would be well worth it:cool:

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  • GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    An abstract of limericks! 🙂


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  • GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    We'd find great joy in that, even if you get cold feet and don't actually submit that version - post it here!

    Jim

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  • GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    That is something that would strongly tempt me to go to PASS. If it were in epic verse like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or Beowulf.

    Or Dr. Suess.

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  • I don't do epic verse.

    Though... (read attached at your own risk, very amateur attempt)

    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
  • GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    I don't do epic verse.

    Though... (read attached at your own risk, very amateur attempt)

    Apparently you do! Now to make it about SQL Server...

    My favorite version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight reads a hell of a lot like Dr. Seuss.

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    What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
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  • Stefan Krzywicki (4/26/2011)


    GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    That is something that would strongly tempt me to go to PASS...

    Even more tempting would be if the abstract was accepted and the whole preso were to be done in verse. I would definitely attend that session.

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • SQLRNNR (4/26/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/26/2011)


    GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    That is something that would strongly tempt me to go to PASS...

    Even more tempting would be if the abstract was accepted and the whole preso were to be done in verse. I would definitely attend that session.

    Indeed, that's what I'd be hoping for.

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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

  • [Jim].[dba].[Murphy] (4/26/2011)


    Nah, you're not an idiot, just focused on the question at hand.

    When the day comes when we meet in person, you'll know how stupid silly strange I really am. I don't think my strange humor comes across on paper screen unless you've sat down and found out what goes on in this little world of mine.

    I think it's a great place to hang out, but not everyone agrees, and it certainly has it's time and place. I certainly don't ever intend to annoy folks.

    Some day you'll have to sit down and tell me how to spell all of those acronyms [not] behind your name. The only one I know is ... ... <thinking> ... Ya, I got nothin'. I plugged all of those into Google and only got one result: Tom Thomson.

    Jim

    I, on the other hand, do occassionally intend to annoy folks. Usually works, too. Otherwise, ditto on the strange sense of humor and all that.

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  • GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    Haiku would be fun.

    Shakespearian iambic pentameter would be even better, for an interesting presentation. Might even be TED-worthy if done right.

    Edit: EVEN BETTER! Seusian verse!

    "I would not index that on a train

    I would not index that on a plain

    I do not like cluster fragmentation

    I do not like that data pagination..."

    On second thought, don't. Actually, it's probably best if everyone ignores any advice I give for about the next week or so.

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  • SQLRNNR (4/26/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/26/2011)


    GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    That is something that would strongly tempt me to go to PASS...

    Even more tempting would be if the abstract was accepted and the whole preso were to be done in verse. I would definitely attend that session.

    Err.... No.

    I ad-lib my presentations. Doing verse is hard enough. Doing it on the fly, no way.

    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
  • GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    SQLRNNR (4/26/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/26/2011)


    GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    That is something that would strongly tempt me to go to PASS...

    Even more tempting would be if the abstract was accepted and the whole preso were to be done in verse. I would definitely attend that session.

    Err.... No.

    I ad-lib my presentations. Doing verse is hard enough. Doing it on the fly, no way.

    Just 1 or 2 slides?

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    SQLRNNR (4/26/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/26/2011)


    GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    That is something that would strongly tempt me to go to PASS...

    Even more tempting would be if the abstract was accepted and the whole preso were to be done in verse. I would definitely attend that session.

    Err.... No.

    I ad-lib my presentations. Doing verse is hard enough. Doing it on the fly, no way.

    Aw, that would have been awesome. Even better would be when you'd then give the same SQL Server presentation at a Rennaisance Faire. In bardic costume.

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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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    What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
    You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams

  • Is it me, or are the posted questions from developers working on medical systems a little worrying?


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