May 2, 2011 at 4:08 pm
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Hey Grant, due to the Order By that SQL Pass uses on the submitted sessions page, you and I are listed consecutively for all sessions. 🙂Totally irrelevant and useless, I know.
This is irrelevant.
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May 2, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Stefan Krzywicki (5/2/2011)
Fal (5/1/2011)
After a horror week in which half my mirrors crashed, a royal wedding saturated the TV, radio, newspapers (as well as my dreams after a derriere walked up the aisle) and I got waaay behind on reading The Thread, I thought I'd do a bit of gardening - and dug up a dead body.Yes indeed. Finding an old packet of carrots on Sunday I grabbed my daughters, chose a spot in the yard for a vege patch and got digging. About 5cm under the daisies I hit a rock. "No worries," I thinks to meself. "I'll just grub it out." As I levered it out of the ground I noticed writing on it, and realised I'd just found someone's poor Rover.
Steve.
How long gone? Was it a "ah, some old bones" moment or an "oh no, what is that smell, girls don't look" moment?
Quite some time. I could read "Jan 16" but not the year. I didn't find any bones which was probably just as well as my daughters would likely try to defragment them. (Hmmm. Thinking about it, maybe it wasn't a pet...) But once I had the tombstone out I had enough depth for the carrots so quit then. (Hmmm. Maybe I should check the year and make sure I really want to eat those carrots.)
And my apologies for my delay in responding. There's been some 70-odd posts since I last popped by less than 12 hours ago. No wonder I get behind on reading The Thread.
Actually Stefan, between you and me, the name on the tombstone was "Stephen".
Steve.
May 2, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Woot!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.allenkinsel.com/archive/2011/05/further-promoting-the-growth-of-speakers/
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
May 2, 2011 at 5:22 pm
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Woot!!!!!!!!!!
You did an awesome job on that presentation. Except for picking on BOTH developers and DBA's! What's up with that?
I especially enjoyed all of the juicy, tasty bits of code. Congratulations.
Jim
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May 2, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Fal (5/2/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (5/2/2011)
Fal (5/1/2011)
After a horror week in which half my mirrors crashed, a royal wedding saturated the TV, radio, newspapers (as well as my dreams after a derriere walked up the aisle) and I got waaay behind on reading The Thread, I thought I'd do a bit of gardening - and dug up a dead body.Yes indeed. Finding an old packet of carrots on Sunday I grabbed my daughters, chose a spot in the yard for a vege patch and got digging. About 5cm under the daisies I hit a rock. "No worries," I thinks to meself. "I'll just grub it out." As I levered it out of the ground I noticed writing on it, and realised I'd just found someone's poor Rover.
Steve.
How long gone? Was it a "ah, some old bones" moment or an "oh no, what is that smell, girls don't look" moment?
Quite some time. I could read "Jan 16" but not the year. I didn't find any bones which was probably just as well as my daughters would likely try to defragment them. (Hmmm. Thinking about it, maybe it wasn't a pet...) But once I had the tombstone out I had enough depth for the carrots so quit then. (Hmmm. Maybe I should check the year and make sure I really want to eat those carrots.)
And my apologies for my delay in responding. There's been some 70-odd posts since I last popped by less than 12 hours ago. No wonder I get behind on reading The Thread.
Actually Stefan, between you and me, the name on the tombstone was "Stephen".
Steve.
You'll want to eat them, that's good fertilizer!
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May 2, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Stefan Krzywicki (5/2/2011)
Fal (5/2/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (5/2/2011)
Fal (5/1/2011)
After a horror week in which half my mirrors crashed, a royal wedding saturated the TV, radio, newspapers (as well as my dreams after a derriere walked up the aisle) and I got waaay behind on reading The Thread, I thought I'd do a bit of gardening - and dug up a dead body.Yes indeed. Finding an old packet of carrots on Sunday I grabbed my daughters, chose a spot in the yard for a vege patch and got digging. About 5cm under the daisies I hit a rock. "No worries," I thinks to meself. "I'll just grub it out." As I levered it out of the ground I noticed writing on it, and realised I'd just found someone's poor Rover.
Steve.
How long gone? Was it a "ah, some old bones" moment or an "oh no, what is that smell, girls don't look" moment?
Quite some time. I could read "Jan 16" but not the year. I didn't find any bones which was probably just as well as my daughters would likely try to defragment them. (Hmmm. Thinking about it, maybe it wasn't a pet...) But once I had the tombstone out I had enough depth for the carrots so quit then. (Hmmm. Maybe I should check the year and make sure I really want to eat those carrots.)
And my apologies for my delay in responding. There's been some 70-odd posts since I last popped by less than 12 hours ago. No wonder I get behind on reading The Thread.
Actually Stefan, between you and me, the name on the tombstone was "Stephen".
Steve.
You'll want to eat them, that's good fertilizer!
Depends what Rover died of.
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May 2, 2011 at 8:27 pm
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Hey Grant, due to the Order By that SQL Pass uses on the submitted sessions page, you and I are listed consecutively for all sessions. 🙂Totally irrelevant and useless, I know.
Good. People will get that far down, get scared and won't bother submitting. We can do three or four sessions apiece.
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May 2, 2011 at 8:28 pm
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Woot!!!!!!!!!!http://www.allenkinsel.com/archive/2011/05/further-promoting-the-growth-of-speakers/
Well earned too. Congratulations! Nothing like knowing you have a reservation.
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SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
May 2, 2011 at 8:49 pm
jcrawf02 (5/2/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (5/2/2011)
Fal (5/2/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (5/2/2011)
Fal (5/1/2011)
After a horror week in which half my mirrors crashed, a royal wedding saturated the TV, radio, newspapers (as well as my dreams after a derriere walked up the aisle) and I got waaay behind on reading The Thread, I thought I'd do a bit of gardening - and dug up a dead body.Yes indeed. Finding an old packet of carrots on Sunday I grabbed my daughters, chose a spot in the yard for a vege patch and got digging. About 5cm under the daisies I hit a rock. "No worries," I thinks to meself. "I'll just grub it out." As I levered it out of the ground I noticed writing on it, and realised I'd just found someone's poor Rover.
Steve.
How long gone? Was it a "ah, some old bones" moment or an "oh no, what is that smell, girls don't look" moment?
Quite some time. I could read "Jan 16" but not the year. I didn't find any bones which was probably just as well as my daughters would likely try to defragment them. (Hmmm. Thinking about it, maybe it wasn't a pet...) But once I had the tombstone out I had enough depth for the carrots so quit then. (Hmmm. Maybe I should check the year and make sure I really want to eat those carrots.)
And my apologies for my delay in responding. There's been some 70-odd posts since I last popped by less than 12 hours ago. No wonder I get behind on reading The Thread.
Actually Stefan, between you and me, the name on the tombstone was "Stephen".
Steve.
You'll want to eat them, that's good fertilizer!
Depends what Rover died of.
I suspect he was running round and round in circles chasing his own tail, when a pork chop got him.
Steve.
May 2, 2011 at 9:57 pm
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Woot!!!!!!!!!!http://www.allenkinsel.com/archive/2011/05/further-promoting-the-growth-of-speakers/
Well done. It was a very good presentation.
May 2, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Grant Fritchey (5/2/2011)
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Woot!!!!!!!!!!http://www.allenkinsel.com/archive/2011/05/further-promoting-the-growth-of-speakers/
Well earned too. Congratulations! Nothing like knowing you have a reservation.
And an invitation for a spotlight that I thought I'd missed out on by not being there last year
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
May 3, 2011 at 4:32 am
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Woot!!!!!!!!!!http://www.allenkinsel.com/archive/2011/05/further-promoting-the-growth-of-speakers/
Congrats, Gail!
May 3, 2011 at 5:15 am
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Woot!!!!!!!!!!http://www.allenkinsel.com/archive/2011/05/further-promoting-the-growth-of-speakers/
Congratulations!
-Ki
May 3, 2011 at 6:43 am
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Grant Fritchey (5/2/2011)
GilaMonster (5/2/2011)
Woot!!!!!!!!!!http://www.allenkinsel.com/archive/2011/05/further-promoting-the-growth-of-speakers/
Well earned too. Congratulations! Nothing like knowing you have a reservation.
And an invitation for a spotlight that I thought I'd missed out on by not being there last year
Congrats on both.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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May 3, 2011 at 8:52 am
Tom.Thomson (5/2/2011)
ChrisM@home (5/2/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (5/1/2011)
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LutzM (4/30/2011)
Slightly different over here in Germany: if a holiday falls on a Sunday (as it happens with May 1st this year), we won't get a public holiday during the week (e.g. following Monday or previous Friday).This year is particulary "bad" in terms of holidays falling on Sunday: May 1st, Christmas Day, Jan 1st 2012, and one or two more I can't remember right now.
But I won't complain either: unlike in other countries we have quite a few days available for paid vacation...
You also have arguably the best little microbreweries in the world 🙂
Aside from Belgium, that is 😉
<<Sucks air through teeth>> Close call, Koen.
Well, you two can argue which of those two countries comes third and which fourth.
Of course most people on this list would probably think they were in heaven drinking good Dutch or German beer (or even bad Dutch or German beer), because they are used to the u/s products of the USA. I used to fly back to Europe from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle or Boston quite often and every time even the most disgusting fizzy third rate hellesbier tasted wonderful after tasting the product of California's, Washington's, or Massachussets' microbreweries (vouched for as the nation's best beers by the inhabitants of those states).
But both Dutch and German beers are outclassed by craft microbreweries like Beartown (English) and Williams Brothers (Scottish). Williams has grown a lot since it started up in 1988 , and Beartown has grown since its beginnings in 1994, but last time I looked each was still a long way way below the limit in the USA legal (for tax purposes) definition of a microbrewery, which is, frankly, a gross misuse of the prefix "micro". The USA definition is reputed to have been set that high for protectionist reasons - use tax to enable medium to fairly large breweries in Washington State and the New England states to undercut the price of beers from similar sized breweries in Canada, where the tax relief for microbreweries cuts off at 30% of the annual output limit specified for USA microbreweries, but no doubt the representatives from those states can refute that charge (they will certainly deny it, and as for refute - well, pigs are not altogether unable to fly, Jeff does make bits of them fly now and again).
Reminds me of the purpose of the human body. It's the most efficient machine ever created for turning European beer into American beer.
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