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Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 1

jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/15/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/15/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/15/2011)
Hey, I like the condensed version of The Thread...
Same here.
No offense if I forgot anything else. I didn't reread the whole 2 weeks either :hehe:.
Hmmm, if I knew you were presenting this summary, I would'nt have to go through 100 emails.
But thanks anyway 🙂
You know you can just open the FIRST one and read on through right? Saves a lot of time :hehe:
I've changed my forum settings, and I've noticed two things:
* my finger hurts from scrolling 🙂
* I see 5 times as much nonsense at the same time
Time for another trick. Buy a mouse with hyperscroll.
1 swing of the finger and he mouse can scroll for about 1 minute (free wheel scroller).
*cough* Page Down button *cough*
excuse me...

Too much work.

Also e-mail notifications usually brings you to the correct bookmark. Even less work :-D.

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 2

jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/15/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/15/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/15/2011)
Hey, I like the condensed version of The Thread...
Same here.
No offense if I forgot anything else. I didn't reread the whole 2 weeks either :hehe:.
Hmmm, if I knew you were presenting this summary, I would'nt have to go through 100 emails.
But thanks anyway 🙂
You know you can just open the FIRST one and read on through right? Saves a lot of time :hehe:
I know I know 😀
But I still have to read 10 pages here on the forum 🙂
I still don't get why you guys do email notifications. I just save the current page in my favorites, and overwrite it when I get caught up. No emails, lots of thready goodness.

Because if I want to check it throughout the day, the emails tell me there's something new to look at, so I'm not checking and seeing nothing. It also prompts me to take quick breaks from work at random intervals.

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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
--------------------------------------
It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams

Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 3

jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
L' Eomot Inversé (11/15/2011)
"yell":
/*
AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA RRRRR GGGG HH HH ######
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG GG HH HH ######
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG HH HH ####
AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA RRRRR GG GGG HHHHHH ##
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG GG HH HH
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GGG G HH HH ##
*/very handy...:hehe:
I had a very yell moment half a day ago, and I've been consigned to the doghouse.
Back in August I booked flights for me and Ann to get back to the UK for medical checks and stuff; for the last week, I've been telling Ann when she asks me (several times a day) that the flight was at about 8pm, and we'd be through customs at Manchester airport about 1am today. She spent a lot of phone time making arrangements to meet people while we were in the UK, and at lunchtime (about 13:20) opened her diary to enter all the agreed meets - to discover a note that we were taking the 13:15 flight. My name is mud. Even more mud because I booked on a no show no refund basis, and she counts the pennies against me as well as the pain. We will be flying on Saturday instead of yesterday. I may live it down by Christmas, or may not (the latter seems more likely). The only good thing is that I hadn't booked flights back here (because you can never tell how long the medics will take).
I urgently need advice on how to use dbcc timewarp to make my SQL Server installation warn me yesterday that I was going to screw up so that I didn't.
Ouch. If it makes you feel any better, I almost pulled something similar for our honeymoon. Accidentally must have hit the scroll on the mouse before I lost focus on the date, if we hadn't fried our laptop with the e-tickets a week before and had to call the airline (whereupon we discovered and corrected the issue), we would have missed our honeymoon flight by 24 hours...almost ended my marriage on the same day it began...:hehe:
Reminds me of when I booked the flight... to the wrong town!
I had to rent a mustang to drive the couple hours drive between the airports :-D.
at least it wasn't an Edsel

No it was like Miami instead of Orlando. Not sure about the former. It was a nice fun ride in that car in sunny weather. That's all I care to remember. 😎

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/15/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/15/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/15/2011)
Hey, I like the condensed version of The Thread...
Same here.
No offense if I forgot anything else. I didn't reread the whole 2 weeks either :hehe:.
Hmmm, if I knew you were presenting this summary, I would'nt have to go through 100 emails.
But thanks anyway 🙂
You know you can just open the FIRST one and read on through right? Saves a lot of time :hehe:
I've changed my forum settings, and I've noticed two things:
* my finger hurts from scrolling 🙂
* I see 5 times as much nonsense at the same time
Time for another trick. Buy a mouse with hyperscroll.
1 swing of the finger and he mouse can scroll for about 1 minute (free wheel scroller).
*cough* Page Down button *cough*
excuse me...

*cough*

end button

*cough*

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

Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 5

SQLRNNR (11/16/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/15/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/15/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/15/2011)
Hey, I like the condensed version of The Thread...
Same here.
No offense if I forgot anything else. I didn't reread the whole 2 weeks either :hehe:.
Hmmm, if I knew you were presenting this summary, I would'nt have to go through 100 emails.
But thanks anyway 🙂
You know you can just open the FIRST one and read on through right? Saves a lot of time :hehe:
I've changed my forum settings, and I've noticed two things:
* my finger hurts from scrolling 🙂
* I see 5 times as much nonsense at the same time
Time for another trick. Buy a mouse with hyperscroll.
1 swing of the finger and he mouse can scroll for about 1 minute (free wheel scroller).
*cough* Page Down button *cough*
excuse me...
*cough*
end button
*cough*

There's a virus on the thread, RUN.

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 6

SQLRNNR (11/16/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (11/15/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/15/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/15/2011)
Hey, I like the condensed version of The Thread...
Same here.
No offense if I forgot anything else. I didn't reread the whole 2 weeks either :hehe:.
Hmmm, if I knew you were presenting this summary, I would'nt have to go through 100 emails.
But thanks anyway 🙂
You know you can just open the FIRST one and read on through right? Saves a lot of time :hehe:
I've changed my forum settings, and I've noticed two things:
* my finger hurts from scrolling 🙂
* I see 5 times as much nonsense at the same time
Time for another trick. Buy a mouse with hyperscroll.
1 swing of the finger and he mouse can scroll for about 1 minute (free wheel scroller).
*cough* Page Down button *cough*
excuse me...
*cough*
end button
*cough*

Is everyone feeling alright? There's a lot of coughing going on. Please remember to cover your keyboards when you cough so the rest of us don't catch anything.

Go get your flu shots!

--------------------------------------
When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
--------------------------------------
It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams

Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 7

I got to remember that one!

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1206736-391-1.aspx

GilaMonster (11/16/2011)
ashuthinks (11/16/2011)
i.m just using this stored procedure for reporting purpose..
please let me know my usage is at right or not?
Since when does reporting run deletes?
Why are you so determined to use this hint? It's not as if you're paid by the number of keywords or features that you use.

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 8

Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
L' Eomot Inversé (11/15/2011)
"yell":
/*
AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA RRRRR GGGG HH HH ######
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG GG HH HH ######
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG HH HH ####
AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA RRRRR GG GGG HHHHHH ##
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG GG HH HH
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GGG G HH HH ##
*/very handy...:hehe:
I had a very yell moment half a day ago, and I've been consigned to the doghouse.
Back in August I booked flights for me and Ann to get back to the UK for medical checks and stuff; for the last week, I've been telling Ann when she asks me (several times a day) that the flight was at about 8pm, and we'd be through customs at Manchester airport about 1am today. She spent a lot of phone time making arrangements to meet people while we were in the UK, and at lunchtime (about 13:20) opened her diary to enter all the agreed meets - to discover a note that we were taking the 13:15 flight. My name is mud. Even more mud because I booked on a no show no refund basis, and she counts the pennies against me as well as the pain. We will be flying on Saturday instead of yesterday. I may live it down by Christmas, or may not (the latter seems more likely). The only good thing is that I hadn't booked flights back here (because you can never tell how long the medics will take).
I urgently need advice on how to use dbcc timewarp to make my SQL Server installation warn me yesterday that I was going to screw up so that I didn't.
Ouch. If it makes you feel any better, I almost pulled something similar for our honeymoon. Accidentally must have hit the scroll on the mouse before I lost focus on the date, if we hadn't fried our laptop with the e-tickets a week before and had to call the airline (whereupon we discovered and corrected the issue), we would have missed our honeymoon flight by 24 hours...almost ended my marriage on the same day it began...:hehe:
Reminds me of when I booked the flight... to the wrong town!
I had to rent a mustang to drive the couple hours drive between the airports :-D.
at least it wasn't an Edsel
No it was like Miami instead of Orlando. Not sure about the former. It was a nice fun ride in that car in sunny weather. That's all I care to remember. 😎

The last time I went to Japan I was certain the flight left from Newark. We got a hotel near there and drove in in the morning. As we were checking for what gate, while still in the car, we realized it left from JFK. Fortunately they're close enough and we were early enough that we still made the flight, but boy did I feel stupid.

--------------------------------------
When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
--------------------------------------
It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams

Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 9

Stefan Krzywicki (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
L' Eomot Inversé (11/15/2011)
"yell":
/*
AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA RRRRR GGGG HH HH ######
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG GG HH HH ######
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG HH HH ####
AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA RRRRR GG GGG HHHHHH ##
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG GG HH HH
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GGG G HH HH ##
*/very handy...:hehe:
I had a very yell moment half a day ago, and I've been consigned to the doghouse.
Back in August I booked flights for me and Ann to get back to the UK for medical checks and stuff; for the last week, I've been telling Ann when she asks me (several times a day) that the flight was at about 8pm, and we'd be through customs at Manchester airport about 1am today. She spent a lot of phone time making arrangements to meet people while we were in the UK, and at lunchtime (about 13:20) opened her diary to enter all the agreed meets - to discover a note that we were taking the 13:15 flight. My name is mud. Even more mud because I booked on a no show no refund basis, and she counts the pennies against me as well as the pain. We will be flying on Saturday instead of yesterday. I may live it down by Christmas, or may not (the latter seems more likely). The only good thing is that I hadn't booked flights back here (because you can never tell how long the medics will take).
I urgently need advice on how to use dbcc timewarp to make my SQL Server installation warn me yesterday that I was going to screw up so that I didn't.
Ouch. If it makes you feel any better, I almost pulled something similar for our honeymoon. Accidentally must have hit the scroll on the mouse before I lost focus on the date, if we hadn't fried our laptop with the e-tickets a week before and had to call the airline (whereupon we discovered and corrected the issue), we would have missed our honeymoon flight by 24 hours...almost ended my marriage on the same day it began...:hehe:
Reminds me of when I booked the flight... to the wrong town!
I had to rent a mustang to drive the couple hours drive between the airports :-D.
at least it wasn't an Edsel
No it was like Miami instead of Orlando. Not sure about the former. It was a nice fun ride in that car in sunny weather. That's all I care to remember. 😎
The last time I went to Japan I was certain the flight left from Newark. We got a hotel near there and drove in in the morning. As we were checking for what gate, while still in the car, we realized it left from JFK. Fortunately they're close enough and we were early enough that we still made the flight, but boy did I feel stupid.

:-D.

Worse comes to worse, you could have taken to bus or trolley between them. It's the nice thing about having 3 airports so close!

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 10

Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
I got to remember that one!
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1206736-391-1.aspx
GilaMonster (11/16/2011)
ashuthinks (11/16/2011)
i.m just using this stored procedure for reporting purpose..
please let me know my usage is at right or not?
Since when does reporting run deletes?
Why are you so determined to use this hint? It's not as if you're paid by the number of keywords or features that you use.

ay yay yay

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

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 11

Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
jcrawf02 (11/16/2011)
L' Eomot Inversé (11/15/2011)
"yell":
/*
AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA RRRRR GGGG HH HH ######
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG GG HH HH ######
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG HH HH ####
AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA RRRRR GG GGG HHHHHH ##
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GG GG HH HH
AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA RR RR GGG G HH HH ##
*/very handy...:hehe:
I had a very yell moment half a day ago, and I've been consigned to the doghouse.
Back in August I booked flights for me and Ann to get back to the UK for medical checks and stuff; for the last week, I've been telling Ann when she asks me (several times a day) that the flight was at about 8pm, and we'd be through customs at Manchester airport about 1am today. She spent a lot of phone time making arrangements to meet people while we were in the UK, and at lunchtime (about 13:20) opened her diary to enter all the agreed meets - to discover a note that we were taking the 13:15 flight. My name is mud. Even more mud because I booked on a no show no refund basis, and she counts the pennies against me as well as the pain. We will be flying on Saturday instead of yesterday. I may live it down by Christmas, or may not (the latter seems more likely). The only good thing is that I hadn't booked flights back here (because you can never tell how long the medics will take).
I urgently need advice on how to use dbcc timewarp to make my SQL Server installation warn me yesterday that I was going to screw up so that I didn't.
Ouch. If it makes you feel any better, I almost pulled something similar for our honeymoon. Accidentally must have hit the scroll on the mouse before I lost focus on the date, if we hadn't fried our laptop with the e-tickets a week before and had to call the airline (whereupon we discovered and corrected the issue), we would have missed our honeymoon flight by 24 hours...almost ended my marriage on the same day it began...:hehe:
Reminds me of when I booked the flight... to the wrong town!
I had to rent a mustang to drive the couple hours drive between the airports :-D.
at least it wasn't an Edsel
No it was like Miami instead of Orlando. Not sure about the former. It was a nice fun ride in that car in sunny weather. That's all I care to remember. 😎
The last time I went to Japan I was certain the flight left from Newark. We got a hotel near there and drove in in the morning. As we were checking for what gate, while still in the car, we realized it left from JFK. Fortunately they're close enough and we were early enough that we still made the flight, but boy did I feel stupid.
:-D.
Worse comes to worse, you could have taken to bus or trolley between them. It's the nice thing about having 3 airports so close!

Very true. And we'd ended up getting started over an hour early, so that got us to JFK right on time. We were fortunate.

--------------------------------------
When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
--------------------------------------
It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 12

Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
I got to remember that one!
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1206736-391-1.aspx
GilaMonster (11/16/2011)
ashuthinks (11/16/2011)
i.m just using this stored procedure for reporting purpose..
please let me know my usage is at right or not?
Since when does reporting run deletes?
Why are you so determined to use this hint? It's not as if you're paid by the number of keywords or features that you use.

Definitely one to be treasured!

Tom

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173083 More actions · Answer 13

L' Eomot Inversé (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
I got to remember that one!
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1206736-391-1.aspx
GilaMonster (11/16/2011)
ashuthinks (11/16/2011)
i.m just using this stored procedure for reporting purpose..
please let me know my usage is at right or not?
Since when does reporting run deletes?
Why are you so determined to use this hint? It's not as if you're paid by the number of keywords or features that you use.
Definitely one to be treasured!

May I just say that at least one of us on this thread DOES get paid by the word on some of her jobs? 😉

And not much at that, so I have to cram as much BS in as I can.

What is really amazing is that I actually get paid to lie to people for a living... except I'm not making much of a living at it. @=( (Pity me)

Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 14

Brandie Tarvin (11/16/2011)
L' Eomot Inversé (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
I got to remember that one!
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1206736-391-1.aspx
GilaMonster (11/16/2011)
ashuthinks (11/16/2011)
i.m just using this stored procedure for reporting purpose..
please let me know my usage is at right or not?
Since when does reporting run deletes?
Why are you so determined to use this hint? It's not as if you're paid by the number of keywords or features that you use.
Definitely one to be treasured!
May I just say that at least one of us on this thread DOES get paid by the word on some of her jobs? 😉
And not much at that, so I have to cram as much BS in as I can.
What is really amazing is that I actually get paid to lie to people for a living... except I'm not making much of a living at it. @=( (Pity me)

So you work for the CIA?

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

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173083 More actions · Answer 15

SQLRNNR (11/16/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (11/16/2011)
L' Eomot Inversé (11/16/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/16/2011)
I got to remember that one!
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1206736-391-1.aspx
GilaMonster (11/16/2011)
ashuthinks (11/16/2011)
i.m just using this stored procedure for reporting purpose..
please let me know my usage is at right or not?
Since when does reporting run deletes?
Why are you so determined to use this hint? It's not as if you're paid by the number of keywords or features that you use.
Definitely one to be treasured!
May I just say that at least one of us on this thread DOES get paid by the word on some of her jobs? 😉
And not much at that, so I have to cram as much BS in as I can.
What is really amazing is that I actually get paid to lie to people for a living... except I'm not making much of a living at it. @=( (Pity me)
So you work for the CIA?

ROTFLOL!

You made me cackle!!!! I'm so glad my teammates are out to lunch right now. @=)

Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.