April 25, 2012 at 10:19 am
Stefan Krzywicki (4/25/2012)
jcrawf02 (4/25/2012)
Jack Corbett (4/25/2012)
love seeing what y'all are reading. Because I'm cheap I'm going through the classics on my kindle. Currently reading my way through most of Dickens' books.Oh Dear Lord, don't waste your time. Maybe on A Tale of Two Cities, although that's kinda boring in places.
Look up Ben Franklin's autobiography, that was interesting. Let's see, what else, the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; the journals of Lewis and Clark; Jack London's stuff (Call Of The Wild/White Fang); Einstein's theories of relativity and gravitation; Kipling's Jungle Book; Count of Monte Cristo;Shakespeare;
I should see how much Twain is available
Don't forget to check out your local library's website too, they are starting to get more eBooks now.
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"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."
April 25, 2012 at 10:22 am
Anybody else wondering how this is going to affect our southern neighbor? That's a live shot of the volcano Popocatépetl, roughly 40 miles outside of Mexico City, waking up.
30 million people and the majority of central government affected
http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/popo/UltimaImagenVolcanI.html
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"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."
April 25, 2012 at 10:23 am
jcrawf02 (4/25/2012)
Stefan Krzywicki (4/25/2012)
jcrawf02 (4/25/2012)
Jack Corbett (4/25/2012)
love seeing what y'all are reading. Because I'm cheap I'm going through the classics on my kindle. Currently reading my way through most of Dickens' books.Oh Dear Lord, don't waste your time. Maybe on A Tale of Two Cities, although that's kinda boring in places.
Look up Ben Franklin's autobiography, that was interesting. Let's see, what else, the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; the journals of Lewis and Clark; Jack London's stuff (Call Of The Wild/White Fang); Einstein's theories of relativity and gravitation; Kipling's Jungle Book; Count of Monte Cristo;Shakespeare;
I should see how much Twain is available
Don't forget to check out your local library's website too, they are starting to get more eBooks now.
My fiancee is a librarian, I hear all about it. : -)
There's a problem with publishers though, they're doing some really assinine things with ebooks and libraries.
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April 25, 2012 at 10:41 am
jcrawf02 (4/25/2012)
Jack Corbett (4/25/2012)
love seeing what y'all are reading. Because I'm cheap I'm going through the classics on my kindle. Currently reading my way through most of Dickens' books.Oh Dear Lord, don't waste your time. Maybe on A Tale of Two Cities, although that's kinda boring in places.
Look up Ben Franklin's autobiography, that was interesting. Let's see, what else, the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; the journals of Lewis and Clark; Jack London's stuff (Call Of The Wild/White Fang); Einstein's theories of relativity and gravitation; Kipling's Jungle Book; Count of Monte Cristo;Shakespeare;
I agree about the Dickens, but think JKack London is a great deal worse!
If you want a really educational fun read, get hold of "The Annotated Alice".
If you want to unserstand what's happening in Western (USA, UK, France, etc) society/politics today read 1984, Animal Farm, and Fahrenheit 451. Plus a good dose of Kafka, Collins' The Path to Freedom, The Man who was Thursday and The Flying Inn. Maybe one of Clifford Simak's more pessimistic novels too.
Currently I'm mostly on Eric Flint and David Weber (separately, and - rarely - together), but that won't last long, unfortunately. And Julio Cortozar and Isabel Allende; rereading Marcel Pagnol, Stasheff. and Laumer. Plus Tormod MacGill-Eain (but that probably wouldn't be useful to anyone else on the list). MacMasters and Stirling and Drake if there's anything new in paperback, but these people are insufficiently prolific, new books are rare.
Tom
April 25, 2012 at 10:56 am
L' Eomot Inversé (4/25/2012)
jcrawf02 (4/25/2012)
Jack Corbett (4/25/2012)
love seeing what y'all are reading. Because I'm cheap I'm going through the classics on my kindle. Currently reading my way through most of Dickens' books.Oh Dear Lord, don't waste your time. Maybe on A Tale of Two Cities, although that's kinda boring in places.
Look up Ben Franklin's autobiography, that was interesting. Let's see, what else, the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; the journals of Lewis and Clark; Jack London's stuff (Call Of The Wild/White Fang); Einstein's theories of relativity and gravitation; Kipling's Jungle Book; Count of Monte Cristo;Shakespeare;
I agree about the Dickens, but think JKack London is a great deal worse!
If you want a really educational fun read, get hold of "The Annotated Alice".
If you want to unserstand what's happening in Western (USA, UK, France, etc) society/politics today read 1984, Animal Farm, and Fahrenheit 451. Plus a good dose of Kafka, Collins' The Path to Freedom, The Man who was Thursday and The Flying Inn. Maybe one of Clifford Simak's more pessimistic novels too.
Currently I'm mostly on Eric Flint and David Weber (separately, and - rarely - together), but that won't last long, unfortunately. And Julio Cortozar and Isabel Allende; rereading Marcel Pagnol, Stasheff. and Laumer. Plus Tormod MacGill-Eain (but that probably wouldn't be useful to anyone else on the list). MacMasters and Stirling and Drake if there's anything new in paperback, but these people are insufficiently prolific, new books are rare.
Yeah, I know that London is tripe, but it's at least more entertaining than Dickens. Great Expectations makes me want to murder him in his sleep.
1984 and Farenheit 451 I get, Animal Farm? Maybe I should re-read it. And that second paragraph is completely unknown to me, good list of things to check out, thanks!
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"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."
April 25, 2012 at 11:07 am
Another topic shift:
WHOOP! I'm getting to publish my article on catastrophic data loss wherein I get to call companies out by name! Yippee! Includes one link to my favorite, a manager tells the staff to skip production backups just before a major change to the production topology resulding in data loss and a one week service outage. WHOOOOOP!
By the way, want to give yourself constant shivers? Go read this site[/url]. It's horror stories for data professionals.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
April 25, 2012 at 11:23 am
Awesome.
I suspect my attempt at an article on bad management met an early grave. Think I'll stick to tech from now on.
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
April 25, 2012 at 11:30 am
Grant Fritchey (4/25/2012)
Another topic shift:WHOOP! I'm getting to publish my article on catastrophic data loss wherein I get to call companies out by name! Yippee! Includes one link to my favorite, a manager tells the staff to skip production backups just before a major change to the production topology resulding in data loss and a one week service outage. WHOOOOOP!
By the way, want to give yourself constant shivers? Go read this site[/url]. It's horror stories for data professionals.
Excellent, congratulations!
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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.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
April 25, 2012 at 12:11 pm
jcrawf02 (4/25/2012)
Jack Corbett (4/25/2012)
love seeing what y'all are reading. Because I'm cheap I'm going through the classics on my kindle. Currently reading my way through most of Dickens' books.Oh Dear Lord, don't waste your time. Maybe on A Tale of Two Cities, although that's kinda boring in places.
Look up Ben Franklin's autobiography, that was interesting. Let's see, what else, the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; the journals of Lewis and Clark; Jack London's stuff (Call Of The Wild/White Fang); Einstein's theories of relativity and gravitation; Kipling's Jungle Book; Count of Monte Cristo;Shakespeare;
Again, project Gutenberg is your friend. It has 232 Mark Twain texts available for download in ebook formats; some of course are duplicates, but I think that most of his work is there.
Tom
April 25, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Great now he-without-any-clues is looking for an SSRS expert. Like he will even give that person the information needed to really help either.
April 25, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Lynn Pettis (4/25/2012)
Great now he-without-any-clues is looking for an SSRS expert. Like he will even give that person the information needed to really help either.
hi how u make report from data?
i have 3 tables and need 2 charts
pls help
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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.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
April 25, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Any memory DMV experts out there with a minute to have a look?
Difference Between bpool_visible & max server memory
There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
--Plato
April 25, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Yet another topic shift...
If anyone's willing to offer suggestions, I'm looking for examples of two things:
Query optimisation/query execution myths (for a blog post series). Things like implicit conversions always cause table scans, subqueries are always slower than joins, etc, indexes enforce and guarantee physical storage order, etc Stuff that's blatantly not true that people just keep repeating.
Common misunderstandings (for a PASS abstract). Areas where people get caught because they draw incorrect conclusions from what they're seeing (example here would be something like adding a WHERE <identity column> > 0 to the where clause because it produces a seek in the execution plan rather than the scan that was there before)
Thanks
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
April 25, 2012 at 12:50 pm
GilaMonster (4/25/2012)
Yet another topic shift...If anyone's willing to offer suggestions, I'm looking for examples of two things:
Query optimisation/query execution myths (for a blog post series). Things like implicit conversions always cause table scans, subqueries are always slower than joins, etc, indexes enforce and guarantee physical storage order, etc Stuff that's blatantly not true that people just keep repeating.
Common misunderstandings (for a PASS abstract). Areas where people get caught because they draw incorrect conclusions from what they're seeing (example here would be something like adding a WHERE <identity column> > 0 to the where clause because it produces a seek in the execution plan rather than the scan that was there before)
Thanks
not sure if this fits, but WHERE EXISTS() (or NOT EXISTS()) with nothing in the subquery to match to the outer record, so it searches the entire table rather than the records that matter
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April 25, 2012 at 12:53 pm
GilaMonster (4/25/2012)
Yet another topic shift...If anyone's willing to offer suggestions, I'm looking for examples of two things:
Query optimisation/query execution myths (for a blog post series). Things like implicit conversions always cause table scans, subqueries are always slower than joins, etc, indexes enforce and guarantee physical storage order, etc Stuff that's blatantly not true that people just keep repeating.
Common misunderstandings (for a PASS abstract). Areas where people get caught because they draw incorrect conclusions from what they're seeing (example here would be something like adding a WHERE <identity column> > 0 to the where clause because it produces a seek in the execution plan rather than the scan that was there before)
Thanks
I know Paul Randal has addressed this, but nested transactions come to mind. I see it where I'm at now. Developers start a transaction and then start another one within it and do a rollback thinking only the inner transaction is rolled back.
Jack Corbett
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