April 27, 2011 at 11:48 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/27/2011)
Unfortunately, I think some people are going to have to get hurt, and companies sued before they start to really focus on the quality of their systems and people.I've avoided medical systems for the same reasons.
It has been going on for years and years, the companies involved, will settle a suit out of court, with the stipulation, that the suit and settlement will never be made public. And those who have been hurt/died and their next of kin suing, have too often agreed to that condition.
To those who are concerned about their and/or their kins medical care, and the accuracy of their medical records, particularly in the case of an accident or incident away from their normal doctor or hospital may I suggest (and yes my wife is a Walgreens mgr) purchasing a "care medical history bracelet" for $19.99 The device is basically a memory card with a USB connection, and can be read from any computer terminal. And yes, you the user load the medical history - so any errors are yours and yours alone.
For those interested:
http://www.walgreens.com/search/results.jsp?Ntt=care+medical+history&x=13&y=8
April 27, 2011 at 11:54 am
GilaMonster (4/26/2011)
I don't do epic verse.Though... (read attached at your own risk, very amateur attempt)
Wow. Gail, I loved the ice spirit story. That's beautiful and deserves a short story or a novel.
So awesome!!!
April 27, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Brandie Tarvin (4/27/2011)
GilaMonster (4/26/2011)
I don't do epic verse.Though... (read attached at your own risk, very amateur attempt)
Wow. Gail, I loved the ice spirit story. That's beautiful and deserves a short story or a novel.
They were written as background legends for a story I was writing at the time. I had maps, a language for one of the races, history, some pictures.
Plot bogged down part way through and I couldn't figure out how to get things back on track.
Is one of the things I want to get back to at some point.
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
April 27, 2011 at 3:00 pm
GilaMonster (4/27/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (4/27/2011)
GilaMonster (4/26/2011)
I don't do epic verse.Though... (read attached at your own risk, very amateur attempt)
Wow. Gail, I loved the ice spirit story. That's beautiful and deserves a short story or a novel.
They were written as background legends for a story I was writing at the time. I had maps, a language for one of the races, history, some pictures.
Plot bogged down part way through and I couldn't figure out how to get things back on track.
Is one of the things I want to get back to at some point.
My only critique is that you're far too reluctant to kill off your characters 😛
Great stuff!
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April 27, 2011 at 3:03 pm
GilaMonster (4/27/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (4/27/2011)
GilaMonster (4/26/2011)
I don't do epic verse.Though... (read attached at your own risk, very amateur attempt)
Wow. Gail, I loved the ice spirit story. That's beautiful and deserves a short story or a novel.
They were written as background legends for a story I was writing at the time. I had maps, a language for one of the races, history, some pictures.
Plot bogged down part way through and I couldn't figure out how to get things back on track.
Is one of the things I want to get back to at some point.
I hope you do. Not finishing stories I start is one of the things I regret.
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What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
April 27, 2011 at 4:14 pm
jcrawf02 (4/27/2011)
GilaMonster (4/27/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (4/27/2011)
GilaMonster (4/26/2011)
I don't do epic verse.Though... (read attached at your own risk, very amateur attempt)
Wow. Gail, I loved the ice spirit story. That's beautiful and deserves a short story or a novel.
They were written as background legends for a story I was writing at the time. I had maps, a language for one of the races, history, some pictures.
Plot bogged down part way through and I couldn't figure out how to get things back on track.
Is one of the things I want to get back to at some point.
My only critique is that you're far too reluctant to kill off your characters 😛
Great stuff!
Reluctant?
The narrator dies at the end of one of the pieces, and a character dies part way through the other. If that's reluctant, I'm not sure I want to see eager.
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
April 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Seeing as people like the stuff (for whatever reason), here's an old, humorous piece, written as an argument against critical fumbles rules in roleplaying (written shortly after our 1st level party TPK'd themselves almost due to a large number of fumbles and the severe effects that the rules we were using had in them)
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
April 27, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Favorite line: ""Oops." Amaroth muttered."
Jim Murphy
http://www.sqlwatchmen.com
@SQLMurph
April 27, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Got a hard 1 for you all. Get me all the queries sent through sp_prepare and executed via sp_execute (not sp_executesql).
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1099625-146-1.aspx
April 28, 2011 at 5:48 am
GilaMonster (4/27/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (4/27/2011)
GilaMonster (4/26/2011)
I don't do epic verse.Though... (read attached at your own risk, very amateur attempt)
Wow. Gail, I loved the ice spirit story. That's beautiful and deserves a short story or a novel.
They were written as background legends for a story I was writing at the time. I had maps, a language for one of the races, history, some pictures.
Plot bogged down part way through and I couldn't figure out how to get things back on track.
Is one of the things I want to get back to at some point.
When you get back and publish, let me know - you have a customer here. Conchobar was a great piece of verse, and a great story.
Tom
April 28, 2011 at 7:54 am
Tom.Thomson (4/26/2011)
Anyway, I don't dare use my apabet soup here - I'm frightened of how Jeff might react.
You, good sir, have proven time and again that you deserve to list them and because of the good person you are, haven't. There is no way to thank you enough for coming to my rescue when I was surrounded by a pack of wolves who were hell bent on chocking me with their rings. Your true pedigree is in the respect you've demonstrably earned and in the knowledge you've displayed. I'm very glad to have "met" you on these forums and hopefully our paths will cross someday.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
April 28, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Since I have the collective braintrust here, and you're posting technical stuff.
I posted a note about understanding your access patterns for data, meaning hitting tables how often and how concurrently. In the past I've gleaned this from Trace, and from knowing most of the queries in the application. However I wonder if there is a better way to do this in DMVs and if anyone else has a resource that might help someone understand how to track/measure the impact they are having on individual objects with queries.
April 28, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/28/2011)
Since I have the collective braintrust here, and you're posting technical stuff.I posted a note about understanding your access patterns for data, meaning hitting tables how often and how concurrently. In the past I've gleaned this from Trace, and from knowing most of the queries in the application. However I wonder if there is a better way to do this in DMVs and if anyone else has a resource that might help someone understand how to track/measure the impact they are having on individual objects with queries.
I'd look to sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats. That should give you a pretty good idea of what stuff is actually getting hit.
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April 28, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Grant Fritchey (4/28/2011)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/28/2011)
Since I have the collective braintrust here, and you're posting technical stuff.I posted a note about understanding your access patterns for data, meaning hitting tables how often and how concurrently. In the past I've gleaned this from Trace, and from knowing most of the queries in the application. However I wonder if there is a better way to do this in DMVs and if anyone else has a resource that might help someone understand how to track/measure the impact they are having on individual objects with queries.
I'd look to sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats. That should give you a pretty good idea of what stuff is actually getting hit.
That helps. Does that cover heaps?
However is there any way to discover concurrency for accesses? Other than knowing/analysing the query code?
April 28, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Haiku
Listen... can you tell?
Someone is using cursors.
Hear the pork chops fly!
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