May 27, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Grant Fritchey (5/27/2011)
Roy Ernest (5/27/2011)
WayneS (5/27/2011)
GilaMonster (5/27/2011)
Precon and spotlight! Could this PASS Summit get any better?So, you're aiming for a keynote address now?
Along with Dr DeWitte
She'll probably start correcting him.
Hot chocolate over monitor.
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 27, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/27/2011)
bitbucket-25253 (5/27/2011)
Driving a Mercedes 300 1992 (Diesel with super charger) now at 303,562 miles. Change oil every 5,000 ... maintence every 10,000 costs $90.00, and runs like a charm averaging slightyl over 30 mpgWondering why Steve has stopped blogging about his car .. ? ? ?
I had a '92 240D for a long time, I think from around 110k miles to 160k. Same story. Now the 911 does that job 😀
The car blogging got too many people upset. It's an emotional subject and the Prius creates all these weird feelings, either the tree-huggers or the tree-hugger-haters disliked my take.
Steve did you drive that '92 240D in Virginia when you lived and worked there. If so, you might have seen another same model, year '80 with a definitely unusual license plate, which was "I DUN NO". If you did it, was you and I passing each other.
May 27, 2011 at 3:48 pm
GilaMonster (5/27/2011)
Grant Fritchey (5/27/2011)
Roy Ernest (5/27/2011)
WayneS (5/27/2011)
GilaMonster (5/27/2011)
Precon and spotlight! Could this PASS Summit get any better?So, you're aiming for a keynote address now?
Along with Dr DeWitte
She'll probably start correcting him.
Hot chocolate over monitor.
bahahaha
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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May 27, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Lynn Pettis (5/27/2011)
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Kiara (5/27/2011)
GSquared (5/27/2011)
A friend of mine says that what a friend of his does is buy old clunker cars, usually for around $2,000 or so. Then the only maintenance he does is adding gas to the tank. The cars don't last long enough to need anything more than that. He usually goes through a car a year. Note that this is all friend-of-a-friend, so it may just be BS. But if it's true, he's paying less that way than most people making payments on a lease/lein on a more usual used car. Of course, he's also riding around in an old clunker that's likely to die halfway to work, and it certainly can't look good or be comfortable.That's actually a fairly common situation for commuters out here (Chicago area) or for folks who live downtown. If the car is pretty much only used to get to and from the train station, a clunker works well. And if the car is routinely parked outside on Chicago city streets and where public transit is a fairly common mode of transport, well, I know several people who vote for the clunker approach...
My father would like your friend, although he NEVER would have paid $2,000 for a car. His averaged about $500 every time. I grew up driving a Ford Pinto, then a Mercury Bobcat (knock-off Pinto), then Ford Festivas (had about three of those, one of which my older brother TOTALED by running into a STOP SIGN when avoiding a stray dog.
I'm convinced he was trying to kill us off by buying unsafe cars to save him even more money, but that may be unfair...
I loved my 1990 Ford Festiva. That's the car I went 30,000 miles without an oil change. It got 50 mpg, had its first mechanical work (right front toe arm) done at 101,000 miles, changed the original spark plugs, wire, rotor, and distributor at 105,521 miles (mpg had dropped to 40), and first (and only) brake work done shortly after that. The car was a trooper.
Yeah, well sounds like you got yours a bit newer than ours. Pretty sure each one was at least on 100k when he bought it.
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May 27, 2011 at 3:56 pm
SQLRNNR (5/27/2011)
GilaMonster (5/27/2011)
Grant Fritchey (5/27/2011)
Roy Ernest (5/27/2011)
WayneS (5/27/2011)
GilaMonster (5/27/2011)
Precon and spotlight! Could this PASS Summit get any better?So, you're aiming for a keynote address now?
Along with Dr DeWitte
She'll probably start correcting him.
Hot chocolate over monitor.
bahahaha
Well, at least we know she'd be polite enough to merely sail a paper airplane at him instead of borrowing the mike for a moment... 😉
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May 27, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/27/2011)
bitbucket-25253 (5/27/2011)
Driving a Mercedes 300 1992 (Diesel with super charger) now at 303,562 miles. Change oil every 5,000 ... maintence every 10,000 costs $90.00, and runs like a charm averaging slightyl over 30 mpgWondering why Steve has stopped blogging about his car .. ? ? ?
The car blogging got too many people upset. It's an emotional subject and the Prius creates all these weird feelings, either the tree-huggers or the tree-hugger-haters disliked my take.
Really? How weird.
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May 27, 2011 at 5:27 pm
bitbucket-25253 (5/27/2011)
Steve did you drive that '92 240D in Virginia when you lived and worked there. If so, you might have seen another same model, year '80 with a definitely unusual license plate, which was "I DUN NO". If you did it, was you and I passing each other.
Not me, I'm a generic plate guy. Like my anonymity as much as I can get it. It was an ugly yellow, so not hard to spot.
May 27, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Jack Corbett (5/27/2011)
GilaMonster (5/27/2011)
Precon and spotlight! Could this PASS Summit get any better?Sure, I could go, and attend the precon and the spotlight!
Side note for those not on Twitter, I accepted a 6 month contract position in Concord, NH today. The majority of the work will be performance tuning stored procedures for an application ported from Oracle to SQL Server. One of the curses of having been a jack of all trades is that they always find .NET work for me to do too.
Congratulations Jack! Man, that is excellent news. I'll take credit for the shout out in my SQLRally blog post. I figure out of the 7 people who hit the page, 2 didn't bounce and one of them hired you. I'm kidding. Sort of. 8-|
I'm glad you found something. No more squirming, wondering what will happen next.
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May 27, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Grant Fritchey (5/27/2011)
Roy Ernest (5/27/2011)
WayneS (5/27/2011)
GilaMonster (5/27/2011)
Precon and spotlight! Could this PASS Summit get any better?So, you're aiming for a keynote address now?
Along with Dr DeWitte
She'll probably start correcting him.
Hhhhhhhhhhhahahaha. <struggling to catch my breath>. Now I have to explain to my wife why I laughed so hard that I snorted. Embarrassing.
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May 27, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/27/2011)
bitbucket-25253 (5/27/2011)
Steve did you drive that '92 240D in Virginia when you lived and worked there. If so, you might have seen another same model, year '80 with a definitely unusual license plate, which was "I DUN NO". If you did it, was you and I passing each other.Not me, I'm a generic plate guy. Like my anonymity as much as I can get it. It was an ugly yellow, so not hard to spot.
I've been meaning to ask, how are your horses doing? I hear there's a quarantine in Colorado right now.
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May 27, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Craig Farrell (5/27/2011)
SQLRNNR (5/27/2011)
GilaMonster (5/27/2011)
Grant Fritchey (5/27/2011)
Roy Ernest (5/27/2011)
WayneS (5/27/2011)
GilaMonster (5/27/2011)
Precon and spotlight! Could this PASS Summit get any better?So, you're aiming for a keynote address now?
Along with Dr DeWitte
She'll probably start correcting him.
Hot chocolate over monitor.
bahahaha
Well, at least we know she'd be polite enough to merely sail a paper airplane at him instead of borrowing the mike for a moment... 😉
<giggle>. This is probably Grant's biggest fear for the precon. Especially since Jen says that "book authors don't know anything" at SQLRally. For clarification, (inside joke) Jen misspoke and turned bright red when she realized what came out of her mouth instead of 'book authors don't know everything'. The whole conference was poking at her for that wonderful quote. Almost brought down the twitter server.
Jim Murphy
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May 27, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Stefan Krzywicki (5/27/2011)
I've been meaning to ask, how are your horses doing? I hear there's a quarantine in Colorado right now.
We're fine. Horses have been on property for weeks, so no infection here. There was a bad outbreak of Equine Hepatitis in Utah, a number of horses put down. Restrictions on crossing state lines. My wife was supposed to be in NM this week with 2 horses for training and had to cancel. Can't take the chance of traveling and getting exposed.
May 28, 2011 at 3:15 am
Jim Murphy (5/27/2011)
<giggle>. This is probably Grant's biggest fear for the precon. Especially since Jen says that "book authors don't know anything" at SQLRally. For clarification, (inside joke) Jen misspoke and turned bright red when she realized what came out of her mouth instead of 'book authors don't know everything'. The whole conference was poking at her for that wonderful quote. Almost brought down the twitter server.
Ah, I got half of that joke, not the full thing. I heard what she said, not the context.
I've contributed to one book, busy with a contribution to a second, so I think I qualify as 'author' too...
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 28, 2011 at 5:59 am
*chanting*
I will not smack Syed with a heavy hand...
I will not smack Syed with a heavy hand...
I will not smack...
*mumbles off to another room, still chanting*
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May 28, 2011 at 6:11 am
Craig Farrell (5/28/2011)
*chanting*I will not smack Syed with a heavy hand...
I will not smack Syed with a heavy hand...
I will not smack...
*mumbles off to another room, still chanting*
I'm not even sure if (s)he's even interested in answering a specific question but rather throwing in his/her alphabet soup and blog link. Look at the recent posts: either a one-liner or a copy+paste of the same performance queries (some of them leaving room for improvemet as Grant pointed out in one of the threads).
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