Are the posted questions getting worse?
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Jack Corbett (8/24/2011)
SQLRNNR (8/24/2011)
Roy Ernest (8/24/2011)
LOL... The name Roy Ernest and nominated for pass board does not go together. 🙂We will just do reviews on the applicants for board members. I hope we do not piss too many people off 🙂 But it will be fun.
So you think it is fun to piss people off?
Actually I do think it is fun to piss people off! 😀
It's a good group on the NomCom. I know Bradley Ball since he is in the Orlando area and, of course, I know Roy from SSC, even though we've never met in person. Tom & Wayne are good to work with as well.
It's a small world we live in. I know all 3 folks added to the NomCom; have met two, and have worked with one. I agree that it is a
goodgreat group of folks.Wayne
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Fal (8/24/2011)
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Stefan Krzywicki (8/23/2011)
Earthquake in CO yesterday and now one in VA that I felt all the way in Boston.Hope everyone in the affected area is okay. Did anyone's DR plans get put into action?
Steve.
I temporarily shifted my household to the generator to save the beer popsicles, just in case.
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Jeff Moden (8/24/2011)
Fal (8/24/2011)
Jeff Moden (8/23/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (8/23/2011)
Earthquake in CO yesterday and now one in VA that I felt all the way in Boston.Hope everyone in the affected area is okay. Did anyone's DR plans get put into action?
Steve.
I temporarily shifted my household to the generator to save the beer popsicles, just in case.
Sure am glad that someone remember those beer popsicles! It would be a disaster of untold proportions if anything happened to them. :w00t:
Wayne
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Jeff Moden (8/24/2011)
Fal (8/24/2011)
Jeff Moden (8/23/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (8/23/2011)
Earthquake in CO yesterday and now one in VA that I felt all the way in Boston.Hope everyone in the affected area is okay. Did anyone's DR plans get put into action?
Steve.
I temporarily shifted my household to the generator to save the beer popsicles, just in case.
So did it all go according to DR plan? Or did you discover a shortcoming, like the generator runs off mains power?
Steve.
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bitbucket-25253 (8/24/2011)
Recieved e-mail one hour ago from Pass[delete]Nominated for the Pass Board of Directors[/delete]
[correction]
The 2011 Nomination Committee (NomCom) – a team that assesses and reviews all PASS Board of Director applicants [/correction]
Jack Corbett, Roy Ernest
CONGRATULATIONS
http://www.sqlpass.org/Community/PASSBlog/entryid/366/NomCom-Finalized.aspx
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Excellent !
Congrats to you both ! ( and Bradley Ball of course ).
Thomas LaRock and Wayne Snyder will be member of a great team !
Johan
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Jeff Moden (8/24/2011)
Fal (8/24/2011)
Jeff Moden (8/23/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (8/23/2011)
Earthquake in CO yesterday and now one in VA that I felt all the way in Boston.Hope everyone in the affected area is okay. Did anyone's DR plans get put into action?
Steve.
I temporarily shifted my household to the generator to save the beer popsicles, just in case.
What about the pork chops? Defrosted by now?:-D
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Grant Fritchey (8/16/2011)
BrainDonor (8/16/2011)
Grant Fritchey (8/12/2011)
Hey guys, want a free little toy from Red Gate? It's called Tab Magic and remembers what tabs you had open when you close SSMS. Kinda cool. A product of the down tools week experimentation they allow at the company. Check it out.Very useful little thing, but if you open an execution plan in XML (because I'm currently reading your SQL Server Execution Plans book) it raises an error when you go back to another tab. It doesn't crash anything so I'm sticking with it, but it doesn't appear to like the XML tabs. It sends an error report, so they may have suddenly seen a handful of these back at Redgate.
I've actually found it to be quite buggy. But, it's a beta product. If you use it, send some feedback & then uninstall it.
Quite buggy indeed! I come back from vacation and every time I open a new .sql file or execute it, it's suddenly erroring out all over the place.
Set several different error reports and uninstalled it. It's making SSMS freeze and I don't have time to deal with that right now. Too much to do. Also, didn't like that it didn't save the tabs of the last SSMS window opened.
Situation: I left tabs open in an SSMS window to test the toy. Closed it at end of day. Next morning, open SSMS in 2 windows and all my tabs are there. Great! Close the tabs in the second window (which I close first at the end of Day 2), but leave the tabs open in the first window. Close window 1 last (right before I leave). On Day 3, when I open up SSMS, it saves the settings from the second window (causing me to reopen the tabs) instead of the first window which was closed last.
Bleargh. It's a cute toy. If it weren't so buggy, I might use it. But not now. It's too annoying.
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I saw this in an SS Central topic, and responded appropriately - I hope. If anyone thionks I was inappropriately heavy, let me know.
Tom
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Tom.Thomson (8/25/2011)
I saw this in an SS Central topic, and responded appropriately - I hope. If anyone thionks I was inappropriately heavy, let me know.The first line is not something I'd want to see in a professional communication ("appallingly silly"), but the rest of the post seems to be a fair summary of the situation.
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Tom.Thomson (8/25/2011)
I saw this in an SS Central topic, and responded appropriately - I hope. If anyone thionks I was inappropriately heavy, let me know.Grrr. What a narrow-minded view. My guess, he's a DBA and wants to feel superior to the 'stupid' developers..
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GilaMonster (8/25/2011)
Tom.Thomson (8/25/2011)
I saw this in an SS Central topic, and responded appropriately - I hope. If anyone thionks I was inappropriately heavy, let me know.Grrr. What a narrow-minded view. My guess, he's a DBA and wants to feel superior to the 'stupid' developers..
Talking about narrow minded... will he ever shut up?
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Brandie Tarvin (8/25/2011)
Tom.Thomson (8/25/2011)
I saw this in an SS Central topic, and responded appropriately - I hope. If anyone thionks I was inappropriately heavy, let me know.The first line is not something I'd want to see in a professional communication ("appallingly silly"), but the rest of the post seems to be a fair summary of the situation.
I don't know, sometimes you need forthright communication like that even in a professional communication. Dancing around a topic or phrasing it more gently sometimes lets people ignore it.
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Ninja's_RGR'us (8/25/2011)
GilaMonster (8/25/2011)
Tom.Thomson (8/25/2011)
I saw this in an SS Central topic, and responded appropriately - I hope. If anyone thionks I was inappropriately heavy, let me know.Grrr. What a narrow-minded view. My guess, he's a DBA and wants to feel superior to the 'stupid' developers..
Talking about narrow minded... will he every shut up?
Still funny, and appropriate at the moment (Sandroid)!
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Stefan Krzywicki (8/25/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (8/25/2011)
Tom.Thomson (8/25/2011)
I saw this in an SS Central topic, and responded appropriately - I hope. If anyone thionks I was inappropriately heavy, let me know.The first line is not something I'd want to see in a professional communication ("appallingly silly"), but the rest of the post seems to be a fair summary of the situation.
I don't know, sometimes you need forthright communication like that even in a professional communication. Dancing around a topic or phrasing it more gently sometimes lets people ignore it.
Kind of why I made the point off saying *I*, so it wouldn't come off as a "don't ever do that." It's just my opinion.
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Stefan Krzywicki (8/25/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (8/25/2011)
Tom.Thomson (8/25/2011)
I saw this in an SS Central topic, and responded appropriately - I hope. If anyone thionks I was inappropriately heavy, let me know.The first line is not something I'd want to see in a professional communication ("appallingly silly"), but the rest of the post seems to be a fair summary of the situation.
I don't know, sometimes you need forthright communication like that even in a professional communication. Dancing around a topic or phrasing it more gently sometimes lets people ignore it.
Sometimes calling a pile of dong a piece of sh*t is just what the patient needs.
IIRC that's the only thing that finally made Syed shut it with his crappy advices. No it's not "professional" but letting that go on is far worse IMHO.
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