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  • Has anyone seen St Michael of Earl? Curious if he may have left THE THREAD.

  • [font="Verdana"]Zzzzz... mumble mumble... Lynn... Soccer... mumble mumble... zzzzz[/font]

  • Lynn Pettis (3/17/2009)


    Has anyone seen St Michael of Earl? Curious if he may have left THE THREAD.

    May be taking a "desert sabatical", if he was paying attention to The Thread.

    (Free association error: Connection between Pern books and SQL Server being established ... reconciliation impossible ... the desert is --> that way.)

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  • GSquared (3/17/2009)


    May be taking a "desert sabatical", if he was paying attention to The Thread.

    (Free association error: Connection between Pern books and SQL Server being established ... reconciliation impossible ... the desert is --> that way.)

    [font="Verdana"]Mua'dib![/font]

  • Green Beer!!

    are we free associating now?

  • Bruce W Cassidy (3/17/2009)


    [font="Verdana"]Zzzzz... mumble mumble... Lynn... Soccer... mumble mumble... zzzzz[/font]

    What I didn't tell anyone is that the game i was officiating was my daughters JV Soccer Team. Thought I'd hear too much about conflict of interest before the game.

    Any way, they almost won their first game. They scored first early in the second half (interesting first half by the way, called handling on the keeper and my partner and I had to do some explaining about the current interpretation of the laws of the game). Late in the second half, perhaps less than two minutes left, while battling to keep the ball out of the penalty area, one of her teammates tried to clear the ball, and instead of kicking it, it glanced off her shin guard and into their goal for an own goal for the other team. Game ended in a 1 - 1 tie.

    My daughter was still excited as the first two games they played were 0 -9 and 0 - 8 blowouts they lost.

    My daughter was also unhappy with my partner, as he should have been in position to call handling in the first half during the indirect free kick at the top of their opponents goal area. During that kick, the girls moved to where I could not see the initial handling. Really nice that she is also a trained ref, as when everyone yelled "hand ball", I responded with "didn't see it", she looked at my position and where the players were and silently agreed. She filled me in on this after we got home (I got home later as I had a U-12 soccer team to coach right after the game).

    Over all, it was a good game, and I enjoyed watching her and her team from the best seat in the house, the pitch.

  • Most definitely, Steve !!

    Being the all-American Dutch-Scots-Irish-German-with-a-touch-of-snapping-turtle boy that I am, I am wearing the green and would proudly quaff a green beer with you in about two hours. What time is it where you are?

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  • Bob Hovious (3/17/2009)


    Most definitely, Steve !!

    Being the all-American Dutch-Scots-Irish-German-with-a-touch-of-snapping-turtle boy that I am, I am wearing the green and would proudly quaff a green beer with you in about two hours. What time is it where you are?

    Please, quaff one for me as well. Sorry my wife would kill me for drinking any beer, green or not!

  • Lynn Pettis (3/17/2009)


    called handling on the keeper and my partner and I had to do some explaining about the current interpretation of the laws of the game).

    How about explaining this to us too? I haven't been involved in soccer for about 5 years because of work, family, and moving so I've fallen a bit behind on any changes.

  • Steve Jones - Editor (3/17/2009)


    Green Beer!!

    are we free associating now?

    Beer! Hell yeah we know about this stuff! You want green beer? With or without the dye?

    Check this one out 😎

    SELECT TOP 5 mates

    FROM Contacts

    HAPPY JOIN

    (SELECT TOP 5 bar

    FROM dbo.bars

    WHERE BeerQuality > 5

    AND TrailerTrash IS NULL

    ORDER BY BeerQuality, DistanceFromRiver DESC)

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  • Lynn Pettis (3/17/2009)


    Bob Hovious (3/17/2009)


    Most definitely, Steve !!

    ....

    Please, quaff one for me as well. Sorry my wife would kill me for drinking any beer, green or not!

    Don't worry Lynn, we won't tell her if you do.



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  • Lynn Pettis (3/17/2009)


    Over all, it was a good game, and I enjoyed watching her and her team from the best seat in the house, the pitch.

    [font="Verdana"]It sounds like a great game! I'm not a great sport watcher, as I prefer to be involved, so reff'ing to me seems like a good way of both being watching and still being involved.[/font]

  • I've got a couple of good friends who are, or were, referees, Bruce. They both felt it was a great way to be "in" the game, as well as having the best "seat" in the house.

    Chris, great job of optimizing that last query.

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    Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

  • [font="Verdana"]Happy join? :w00t:

    I miss Oracle's natural join. "Just join the two tables, dammit! I've already told you what the foreign key relationship is..."

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  • Bruce W Cassidy (3/17/2009)


    [font="Verdana"]Happy join? :w00t:

    I miss Oracle's natural join. "Just join the two tables, dammit! I've already told you what the foreign key relationship is..."

    [/font]

    It was supposed to be a CROSS JOIN but it didn't look right in the same sentence as beer:-P

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    For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
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    Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

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