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

Brandie Tarvin (1/9/2012)
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/9/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (1/9/2012)
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/9/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (1/9/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/6/2012)
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I made the top ten?
WHOOT!
No, you made the top 6 & by a very clear margin too!
What's fantastic is that I'm better at time-wastin' BS than Steve, apparently. @=)
(hehehehehehehe).
Aren't you a published fiction author???
Why are you so surprised :hehe:
@set Snobby = On;
Ex-squeeze me. My fiction does not "waste time." It is Art (with a capital A, even). True Art is never a waste of anyone's time as its edification capabilities enhance our cultural zeitgheist.
@set Snobby = Off;

That's not how I meant it to sound... I assumed a joke with Steve that I mirrored to you.

/bad jokes off with rollback immediate

:hehe:

There was a time I loved fiction, got any books to recommend?

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 2

Apparently I'm the person who prefers underscores to camelCase. I like it for case-sensitivity reasons. If I use all lower case and underscores I don't have to worry about case for my object names anyway.

I'm not a zealot about it or anything. I really just want there to be a standard in the company I work for.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

Ninja's_RGR'us (1/9/2012)
There was a time I loved fiction, got any books to recommend?

Yes

http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2012/01/01/2011-book-review/

http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/2011-the-year-in-books.aspx

We both have 2010 posts as well if you feel like hunting

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 4

Ninja's_RGR'us (1/9/2012)
GilaMonster (1/9/2012)
Roy Ernest (1/9/2012)
I see lots of comments regarding post counts... Does everybody have a target?
No, no targets here (though I'll take a screenshot of max_smallint when that happens)
Would be so funny if the site broke and all of a sudden because of that, no thread you ever participated in could load.

Lol.

Steve, this is probably a good time to check that the points aren't stored in a smallint. Just in case...

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

GilaMonster (1/9/2012)
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/9/2012)
There was a time I loved fiction, got any books to recommend?
Yes
http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2012/01/01/2011-book-review/
http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/2011-the-year-in-books.aspx
We both have 2010 posts as well if you feel like hunting

SET @JokesAvg_2012 FOR Ninja = 0%

P.S. Wow that's a lot of reading for 1 year! :Whistling:

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 6

Here is a connect item that I've raised as a result of the discussion about one of Paul's QotDs. I hope it will gather some votes from denizens of the thread.

Tom

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

L' Eomot Inversé (1/9/2012)
Here is a connect item that I've raised as a result of the discussion about one of Paul's QotDs. I hope it will gather some votes from denizens of the thread.

Voted.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

Roy Ernest (1/9/2012)
I see lots of comments regarding post counts... Does everybody have a target? I have never thought about it at all.
When I get time post some thing, Thats it. 🙂

Nope - no goals.

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Revenant SSC-Forever Points: 42467 More actions · Answer 9

Ninja's_RGR'us (1/9/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (1/9/2012)
Here is a connect item that I've raised as a result of the discussion about one of Paul's QotDs. I hope it will gather some votes from denizens of the thread.
Voted.

Me, too.

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 10

SQL Kiwi (1/9/2012)
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/9/2012)
Well new posts seem fine for me except the ones here where we did the tests.
Check Gail's original: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1232103.aspx
Most of the examples I posted were images, and therefore unlikely to change much 😉

Ah, good for perf. Good for design too if the coloring is done where it should be (client-side). (Sorry, Remi, I disagree with your "bad for design" suggestion.)

Tom

Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 11

L' Eomot Inversé (1/9/2012)
SQL Kiwi (1/9/2012)
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/9/2012)
Well new posts seem fine for me except the ones here where we did the tests.
Check Gail's original: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1232103.aspx
Most of the examples I posted were images, and therefore unlikely to change much 😉
Ah, good for perf. Good for design too if the coloring is done where it should be (client-side). (Sorry, Remi, I disagree with your "bad for design" suggestion.)

Nothing to disagree on, from the looks of this it seemed to be saved in the DB, but it's clearly not (well kind of hard to prove it, but not likely).

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 12

Roy Ernest (1/9/2012)
I see lots of comments regarding post counts... Does everybody have a target? I have never thought about it at all.
When I get time post some thing, Thats it. 🙂

Yuck! No way, no targets. I post what I can, when I can, if I think I can add to the conversation. Sometimes, if I'm busy, posting gets cut from the plan entirely (for example, I've been spotty for the last month). I do try to make it a point to post as often as possible over on ask.sqlservercentral.com, but that's a different critter entirely.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 13

Brandie Tarvin (1/9/2012)
@set Snobby = On;
Ex-squeeze me. My fiction does not "waste time." It is Art (with a capital A, even). True Art is never a waste of anyone's time as its edification capabilities enhance our cultural zeitgheist.
@set Snobby = Off;

Set Pedantic = On; Set BadJokes = On

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Set BadJokes = Off; Set Pedantic = Off;

Tom

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 14

Brandie Tarvin (1/9/2012)
I have this image in my head of me wearing a monocle and top hat while holding cane in one hand and a cuppa in the other.
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I would love to hear reviews if you happen to pick it up.

Really? Since we've never met, I sort of see you in a cross between pirate garb, cutlass included, and steampunk, but with a good SF blaster. But you can still have the cuppa.

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 15

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/6/2012)
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1.whatever per day sounds about right for me. No surprises there. Makes it about 1 in 10 of my posts or something in that range? I think I average about 10/day in most months.

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