December 27, 2011 at 11:16 am
Grant Fritchey (12/27/2011)
Jeff Moden (12/26/2011)
I have a serious question for my fellow Threadizens...Based on the fact that we can't get people to run good sets of backups despite Umptymillion articles, blog posts, presentations, webcasts and screaming lightning talks, I don't think you're going to be giving away the secrets of the universe. In fact, I think you could publish the secrets of the universe and they'd still be mostly safe because of a serious inability to RTFM/A/B by most people. Heck, I'd say that 1 in 20 actively resists fundamental advice "Yeah, that WHILE loop that you're using to load a million rows inside of a multi-statement UDF that gets joined to another multi-statement UDF with a WHILE loop... that's your problem" "Oh, well, I don't want to change that. What else can we do?"
In short, go for it. It'll prove useful to those who care and can actively learn from it.
Wait just a minute! Who leaked the secrets of the universe to you? We had to sign security bonds and all that! I ... oh ... you're being metaphorical is all, right? Never mind. I didn't say a thing. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Move along.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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December 27, 2011 at 8:02 pm
I am putting the finishing touches on an article. Anybody interested in reviewing/critiquing it?
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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December 27, 2011 at 8:55 pm
SQLRNNR (12/27/2011)
I am putting the finishing touches on an article. Anybody interested in reviewing/critiquing it?
I will rise to the bait.
December 28, 2011 at 6:16 am
SQLRNNR (12/27/2011)
I am putting the finishing touches on an article. Anybody interested in reviewing/critiquing it?
Me too...
-Roy
December 28, 2011 at 6:22 am
SQLRNNR (12/27/2011)
I am putting the finishing touches on an article. Anybody interested in reviewing/critiquing it?
Send it over here.
December 28, 2011 at 7:31 am
*sigh.
I think I'm going to start voting for people I don't like. Every time I cast a vote in any election, the people I like end up losing.
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December 28, 2011 at 7:37 am
jcrawf02 (12/28/2011)
*sigh.I think I'm going to start voting for people I don't like. Every time I cast a vote in any election, the people I like end up losing.
Oh?
I've been voting for people I don't like for years. Every election in my adult life has been about chosing the politician I felt might be the less destructive of the two I could choose from. Not "the one I think will do the best" but "the one I think will do slightly less harm".
"99% of politicians are giving the rest of them a bad name" is one of my favorite quotes.
Or do you mean something other than politics? (And with me on this forum, honestly, who's bored enough to bring up politics and get me going again?)
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December 28, 2011 at 7:49 am
GSquared (12/28/2011)
jcrawf02 (12/28/2011)
*sigh.I think I'm going to start voting for people I don't like. Every time I cast a vote in any election, the people I like end up losing.
Oh?
I've been voting for people I don't like for years. Every election in my adult life has been about chosing the politician I felt might be the less destructive of the two I could choose from. Not "the one I think will do the best" but "the one I think will do slightly less harm".
"99% of politicians are giving the rest of them a bad name" is one of my favorite quotes.
Or do you mean something other than politics? (And with me on this forum, honestly, who's bored enough to bring up politics and get me going again?)
Please no politics here. (I agree that it’s better than comic section in newspapers. They have more humour :hehe:)
December 28, 2011 at 7:51 am
I have a feeling that they are one of them was talking about the SQL Pass Election.. Maybe I am mistaken... 🙂
-Roy
December 28, 2011 at 8:24 am
Roy Ernest (12/28/2011)
I have a feeling that they are one of them was talking about the SQL Pass Election.. Maybe I am mistaken... 🙂
That's what I was thinking too. Of the winners, the only name I was familiar with is Rob Farley. Here is a link to the results:
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December 28, 2011 at 8:28 am
I know all of them. Had the chance to interview them. All of them were strong candidates. I knew that there would always be disappointments.
-Roy
December 28, 2011 at 9:51 am
There are a lot of terrific people in SQL who I don't know. So I'm sure the winners were great.
Anyway, I was surprised by this map. Guess which states have the most tech workers? I wonder why Colorado and Virginia are so high on that scale. Mississippi being on the bottom was no surprise though...
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December 28, 2011 at 10:09 am
mtillman-921105 (12/28/2011)
There are a lot of terrific people in SQL who I don't know. So I'm sure the winners were great.Anyway, I was surprised by this map. Guess which states have the most tech workers? I wonder why Colorado and Virginia are so high on that scale. Mississippi being on the bottom was no surprise though...
The coloring is a % of workers in the state that are tech workers. MD and VA are high because of governement positions (the article says VA is probably high because of the CIA being located there). Colorado has a low population which means a smaller total number will give similar % to MD, VA, and MA, but NORAD is out there, so that might account for part of it. CA is lighter green than CO, WA, MD, MA and VA, despite having Silicon Valley and other hihg-tech hubs just because its population is so large.
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December 28, 2011 at 10:11 am
mtillman-921105 (12/28/2011)
There are a lot of terrific people in SQL who I don't know. So I'm sure the winners were great.Anyway, I was surprised by this map. Guess which states have the most tech workers? I wonder why Colorado and Virginia are so high on that scale. Mississippi being on the bottom was no surprise though...
AOL is based out of the Washington DC area, and lots of tech jobs in the 90s were built around that. A lot of tech companies there from that time. That's Virginia, for most of them.
Not sure about Colorado.
Edit: Washington DC area also includes a lot of Maryland residents, of course.
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December 28, 2011 at 10:41 am
Then that makes sense for Virginia.
But I'd like to know more about Colorado - especially since I'm lucky enough to live here now. 🙂
Steve, maybe you could let us know. I did just read that people here are more educated than in most other (US) states. That doesn't hurt.
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