Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Brandie Tarvin (7/21/2011)


    I'm curious. How many people subscribe to a job service (or keep in touch with job sites / recruiters) because they're currently looking?

    Or do you just keep in touch just to keep an eye on the market?

    I keep the emails coming from monster, dice, et al, to keep an eye on the market. Since my resume is public an dactive recruiters contact me regularly.

    I need to do a better job keeping in touch with the recruiters I've worked with to keep my eye on the market, especially since I'm working contracts now.

  • Gianluca Sartori (7/19/2011)


    There's someone you all know that deserves your vote here[/url].

    I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. πŸ˜‰

    Vote added.

    Thank you Jeff for all the help you provided so far and -in advance- for the solutions you'll provide in the future!!

    I've learned a LOT from your articles and posts!! THANK YOU!!

    Especially when taking into account what the winner will get, I think it would simply fit best this year. Right?

    But I'm a little bit scared, too: I may have learned too much from you, since my beard slowly start to change color... ;-):-P



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  • Gianluca Sartori (7/19/2011)


    There's someone you all know that deserves your vote here[/url].

    I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. πŸ˜‰

    Jeff gets my vote.

    One of the first articles I read on this site was his one on triangular joins -- it was eye opening.

    I thought I knew T-SQL fairly well, but I approached it like a procedural coder (cursors; encapsulating logic in multi-statement tvfs, etc.). Jeff's articles have made me a set-based evangelist; completely changed the way I model my procedures.

    Now I try to pass that mind set onto my junior developers so that they don't develop RBAR habits.

    Thanks for all the help, Jeff.

  • And now for something completely different. Applies to DBA's as well.

    http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/lazy-sysadmin/[/url]

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  • GabyYYZ (7/22/2011)


    And now for something completely different. Applies to DBA's as well.

    http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/lazy-sysadmin/[/url]

    Wow, nice one!

    Where's the forward button for All_Clients πŸ˜‰

  • GabyYYZ (7/22/2011)


    And now for something completely different. Applies to DBA's as well.

    http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/lazy-sysadmin/[/url]

    Interesting. Not sure all the analogies hold, but not a bad set of reasons to be lazy.

  • GabyYYZ (7/22/2011)


    And now for something completely different. Applies to DBA's as well.

    http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/lazy-sysadmin/[/url]

    I like it.

    Not sure about the command-line bit, but if I stretch that to scripting instead of using wizards, then it applies.

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    Jeff Moden (7/20/2011)


    I understand that Gail Shaw will be co-presenting with you...

    Yup, Grant and I are doing comed^H^H^H^H^H execution plans as a precon on the Monday.

    What are you going to be covering?

    Execution plans, everything we can fit into 7 hours on execution plans (generating, extracting, reading, etc)

    Who are you planning to execute? Or are you taking nominations?

    1 vote in already in for JC (not talking about Jesus-CX). :hehe:

    Jack and I protest the coincidence of initials...

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  • mtillman-921105 (7/20/2011)


    When the Space Shuttle lands, everybody wear ape suits, pass it on.

    hahahahahaha!!!!! :-D:hehe:

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    How to post performance problems[/url]
    Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

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    Ninja's_RGR'us (7/20/2011)


    The Dixie Flatline (7/20/2011)


    GilaMonster (7/20/2011)


    Ninja's_RGR'us (7/20/2011)


    GilaMonster (7/20/2011)


    Jeff Moden (7/20/2011)


    I understand that Gail Shaw will be co-presenting with you...

    Yup, Grant and I are doing comed^H^H^H^H^H execution plans as a precon on the Monday.

    What are you going to be covering?

    Execution plans, everything we can fit into 7 hours on execution plans (generating, extracting, reading, etc)

    Who are you planning to execute? Or are you taking nominations?

    1 vote in already in for JC (not talking about Jesus-CX). :hehe:

    Jack and I protest the coincidence of initials...

    You guys are not in the running.

  • GabyYYZ (7/22/2011)


    And now for something completely different. Applies to DBA's as well.

    http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/lazy-sysadmin/[/url]

    But it contains one big mistake: it claims that it's OK for developers not to be lazy. Any developer who isn't sufficiently lazy to want to avoid time spent on fixing bugs is a waste of space; any developer who isn't sufficiently lazy to make sure his system uses only a small part of available resources is a waste of space; any developer who is too stupid to write reusable code to avoid having to do the same job twice is an idiot; and so on - just like good admins.

    Tom

  • Tom.Thomson (7/22/2011)


    GabyYYZ (7/22/2011)


    And now for something completely different. Applies to DBA's as well.

    http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/lazy-sysadmin/[/url]

    But it contains one big mistake: it claims that it's OK for developers not to be lazy. Any developer who isn't sufficiently lazy to want to avoid time spent on fixing bugs is a waste of space; any developer who isn't sufficiently lazy to make sure his system uses only a small part of available resources is a waste of space; any developer who is too stupid to write reusable code to avoid having to do the same job twice is an idiot; and so on - just like good admins.

    True, computers are intended to allow us to be lazier / enhance our abilities[/url]. Anyone who is using them to be *busier* is doing it wrong.

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  • Interesting reaction from this OP.

    -Roy

  • Roy Ernest (7/25/2011)


    Interesting reaction from this OP.

    Quite. I haven't heard anything like that. I posted my experience for the op, hoping to reassure.

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