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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 1

GSquared (9/1/2011)
I've hated horses ever since I had to ride them every day to get to the school bus. It was only up hill one way, but it was through 3 feet (1m) of snow, 35 degrees below 0 (F or C), in the dark, riding bareback 3 miles (5km) each way.
I've been stepped on, kicked, head-butted, run through low branches, bitten, et al.
So, I hate horses. They seem to reciprocate the feeling.
I get along well with cats, dogs, iguanas, and birds, but not horses. Never had any trouble with the goats or the cow when milking them (though I hated doing so, it wasn't a get-along-with problem). But horses and me just didn't work out well.

I've been kicked by horses, run over by sheep, had a cat that enjoyed getting on top of the top shelf in the closet to piss on my clothes and attacked by fighting cocks.

I had the cat put down, ran the cocks till they wheezed and fainted. Of all of that, I don't like cats much but hated putting that cat down. I really do not like fighting cocks.

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 2

SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
GSquared (9/1/2011)
I've hated horses ever since I had to ride them every day to get to the school bus. It was only up hill one way, but it was through 3 feet (1m) of snow, 35 degrees below 0 (F or C), in the dark, riding bareback 3 miles (5km) each way.
I've been stepped on, kicked, head-butted, run through low branches, bitten, et al.
So, I hate horses. They seem to reciprocate the feeling.
I get along well with cats, dogs, iguanas, and birds, but not horses. Never had any trouble with the goats or the cow when milking them (though I hated doing so, it wasn't a get-along-with problem). But horses and me just didn't work out well.
I've been kicked by horses, run over by sheep, had a cat that enjoyed getting on top of the top shelf in the closet to piss on my clothes and attacked by fighting cocks.
I had the cat put down, ran the cocks till they wheezed and fainted. Of all of that, I don't like cats much but hated putting that cat down. I really do not like fighting cocks.

I was once bitten on the butt by a goose (goosed by a gander, to be precise).

My step-sister was chased all over the farm by love-crazed turkey toms (males) once. It was hillarious to everyone except her. Every time she'd scream (which was frequent), they'd go into a whole chorus of gobble-gobble noises that were just too funny for words to express it.

Alfred Hitchcock wasn't too far off in his movie about the descendents of velociraptors!

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 3

GSquared (9/1/2011)
SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
GSquared (9/1/2011)
I've hated horses ever since I had to ride them every day to get to the school bus. It was only up hill one way, but it was through 3 feet (1m) of snow, 35 degrees below 0 (F or C), in the dark, riding bareback 3 miles (5km) each way.
I've been stepped on, kicked, head-butted, run through low branches, bitten, et al.
So, I hate horses. They seem to reciprocate the feeling.
I get along well with cats, dogs, iguanas, and birds, but not horses. Never had any trouble with the goats or the cow when milking them (though I hated doing so, it wasn't a get-along-with problem). But horses and me just didn't work out well.
I've been kicked by horses, run over by sheep, had a cat that enjoyed getting on top of the top shelf in the closet to piss on my clothes and attacked by fighting cocks.
I had the cat put down, ran the cocks till they wheezed and fainted. Of all of that, I don't like cats much but hated putting that cat down. I really do not like fighting cocks.
I was once bitten on the butt by a goose (goosed by a gander, to be precise).
My step-sister was chased all over the farm by love-crazed turkey toms (males) once. It was hillarious to everyone except her. Every time she'd scream (which was frequent), they'd go into a whole chorus of gobble-gobble noises that were just too funny for words to express it.
Alfred Hitchcock wasn't too far off in his movie about the descendents of velociraptors!

Reminds me of a story about my mother-in-law. A duck was in her garden. She went to chase it away and the duck bit back. She decided a little game of golf with the duck was a better option. Fore - quaaaaaack.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
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SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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LutzM SSC Guru Points: 107049 More actions · Answer 4

Is there a Service Broker guru around?

I could need some help on this thread: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1167028.aspx

I think I narrowed it down to the WMIEventProviderNotificationQueue associated with the

SQL/Notifications/ProcessWMIEventProviderNotification/v1.0 message type.

But since I never worked with WMI events I cannot help to find the process actually sending those messages.

It seems like the messages simply fill up the queue but never get received leading to a growing msdb. I currently try to talk the OP out of recreating msdb....

Lutz
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 5

SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
GSquared (9/1/2011)
I've hated horses ever since I had to ride them every day to get to the school bus. It was only up hill one way, but it was through 3 feet (1m) of snow, 35 degrees below 0 (F or C), in the dark, riding bareback 3 miles (5km) each way.
I've been stepped on, kicked, head-butted, run through low branches, bitten, et al.
So, I hate horses. They seem to reciprocate the feeling.
I get along well with cats, dogs, iguanas, and birds, but not horses. Never had any trouble with the goats or the cow when milking them (though I hated doing so, it wasn't a get-along-with problem). But horses and me just didn't work out well.
I've been kicked by horses, run over by sheep, had a cat that enjoyed getting on top of the top shelf in the closet to piss on my clothes and attacked by fighting cocks.
I had the cat put down, ran the cocks till they wheezed and fainted. Of all of that, I don't like cats much but hated putting that cat down. I really do not like fighting cocks.

I like cats.... but I can't eat a whole one. :hehe:

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 6

Jeff Moden (9/1/2011)
SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
GSquared (9/1/2011)
I've hated horses ever since I had to ride them every day to get to the school bus. It was only up hill one way, but it was through 3 feet (1m) of snow, 35 degrees below 0 (F or C), in the dark, riding bareback 3 miles (5km) each way.
I've been stepped on, kicked, head-butted, run through low branches, bitten, et al.
So, I hate horses. They seem to reciprocate the feeling.
I get along well with cats, dogs, iguanas, and birds, but not horses. Never had any trouble with the goats or the cow when milking them (though I hated doing so, it wasn't a get-along-with problem). But horses and me just didn't work out well.
I've been kicked by horses, run over by sheep, had a cat that enjoyed getting on top of the top shelf in the closet to piss on my clothes and attacked by fighting cocks.
I had the cat put down, ran the cocks till they wheezed and fainted. Of all of that, I don't like cats much but hated putting that cat down. I really do not like fighting cocks.
I like cats.... but I can't eat a whole one. :hehe:

Cats ... hmmm

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 7

SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)

Reminds me of a story about my mother-in-law. A duck was in her garden. She went to chase it away and the duck bit back. She decided a little game of golf with the duck was a better option. Fore - quaaaaaack.

How did it taste?

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

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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mtillman-921105 SSCertifiable Points: 7156 More actions · Answer 8

GilaMonster (9/1/2011)

SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
Reminds me of a story about my mother-in-law. A duck was in her garden. She went to chase it away and the duck bit back. She decided a little game of golf with the duck was a better option. Fore - quaaaaaack.
How did it taste?

Gail, since you live in Africa, I can't help but wonder if you've had any interesting animal encounters...

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 9

GilaMonster (9/1/2011)
SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
Reminds me of a story about my mother-in-law. A duck was in her garden. She went to chase it away and the duck bit back. She decided a little game of golf with the duck was a better option. Fore - quaaaaaack.
How did it taste?

The duck lived on after the encounter with a pegleg

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

mtillman-921105 (9/1/2011)

GilaMonster (9/1/2011)
SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
Reminds me of a story about my mother-in-law. A duck was in her garden. She went to chase it away and the duck bit back. She decided a little game of golf with the duck was a better option. Fore - quaaaaaack.
How did it taste?
Gail, since you live in Africa, I can't help but wonder if you've had any interesting animal encounters...

We don't have lions, leopards, elephants or rhinos roaming the main cities. Even the rural areas are mostly free of big game.

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

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 11

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September 2, 2011 at 1:27 am

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Rush hour in Calgary...

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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 12

GilaMonster (9/1/2011)

mtillman-921105 (9/1/2011)
GilaMonster (9/1/2011)
SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
Reminds me of a story about my mother-in-law. A duck was in her garden. She went to chase it away and the duck bit back. She decided a little game of golf with the duck was a better option. Fore - quaaaaaack.
How did it taste?
Gail, since you live in Africa, I can't help but wonder if you've had any interesting animal encounters...
We don't have lions, leopards, elephants or rhinos roaming the main cities. Even the rural areas are mostly free of big game.

In Cape Town we do get the occasional baboon rummaging through the dustbins though. Stay clear of them!

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 13

Jan Van der Eecken (9/2/2011)

GilaMonster (9/1/2011)
mtillman-921105 (9/1/2011)
GilaMonster (9/1/2011)
SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
Reminds me of a story about my mother-in-law. A duck was in her garden. She went to chase it away and the duck bit back. She decided a little game of golf with the duck was a better option. Fore - quaaaaaack.
How did it taste?
Gail, since you live in Africa, I can't help but wonder if you've had any interesting animal encounters...
We don't have lions, leopards, elephants or rhinos roaming the main cities. Even the rural areas are mostly free of big game.
In Cape Town we do get the occasional baboon rummaging through the dustbins though. Stay clear of them!

You get them in the Eastern Cape too. Up here it's mostly mongooses (mongeese?) crossing roads, Hadedas chasing cats and other such small events.

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

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 14

BrainDonor (9/2/2011)
Rush hour in Calgary...

That's a pretty straggly-looking deer 😛

Paul White
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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 15

GilaMonster (9/1/2011)

mtillman-921105 (9/1/2011)
GilaMonster (9/1/2011)
SQLRNNR (9/1/2011)
Reminds me of a story about my mother-in-law. A duck was in her garden. She went to chase it away and the duck bit back. She decided a little game of golf with the duck was a better option. Fore - quaaaaaack.
How did it taste?
Gail, since you live in Africa, I can't help but wonder if you've had any interesting animal encounters...
We don't have lions, leopards, elephants or rhinos roaming the main cities. Even the rural areas are mostly free of big game.

I guess the animals you do have in big cities are much more dangerous than any of those.

Tom