July 18, 2012 at 1:50 pm
SQLRNNR (7/17/2012)
capn.hector (7/17/2012)
Lynn Pettis (7/17/2012)
Really???does not seem to be the same welsh as when i first started posting.
or is it
I have wondered the same thing
Hmmm, so I'm not the only one who was thinking that.
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July 18, 2012 at 2:09 pm
SQLRNNR (7/18/2012)
GilaMonster (7/18/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/18/2012)
WayneS (7/18/2012)
Gianluca Sartori (7/18/2012)
SQLRNNR (7/17/2012)
Congrats to Gail and Grant on the new book coming out in November.http://www.apress.com/9781430247708
Here's another one coming out in August (by a couple of other threadizens).
http://www.amazon.com/Server-2012-T-SQL-Recipes-Problem-Solution/dp/1430242000
Yeah! Congrats indeed!
That second one looks like it would be pretty good. (But then again, I just might be biased.)
Added it to my list of QOD ads in the newsletter 😉
The first one as well as the second please? It has some deep stuff in, I promise,
I concur. Grant and Gails book should be included in ads.
Definitely - their book looks to be one of those must haves.
Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes
July 18, 2012 at 2:20 pm
GilaMonster (7/18/2012)
The first one as well as the second please? It has some deep stuff in, I promise,
Already added that one 😉
July 18, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/18/2012)
GilaMonster (7/18/2012)
The first one as well as the second please? It has some deep stuff in, I promise,
Already added that one 😉
Steve, how do you manage to read 100 books a year? That's like one book every 2.5 days if you keep Saturdays for cleaning the barn and Sundays for spending with the family. Plus you do have a daytime job?
I manage maybe one book a month, and that's when I really have nothing else to do.
But yes, I agree with you, reading is one of these things that keep your mind going. My kids (now 18, 16 and 16) somehow enherited this passion from both myself and my wife. Keeps them from sitting in front of the TV or PC as well. On the other hand, they take their books wherever they go and therefore their friends kinda look down upon them. Geez, they read BOOKS?
July 18, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/18/2012)
GilaMonster (7/18/2012)
The first one as well as the second please? It has some deep stuff in, I promise,
Already added that one 😉
Steve, how do you manage to read 100 books a year? That's like one book every 2.5 days if you keep Saturdays for cleaning the barn and Sundays for spending with the family. Plus you do have a daytime job?
I manage maybe one book a month, and that's when I really have nothing else to do.
But yes, I agree with you, reading is one of these things that keep your mind going. My kids (now 18, 16 and 16) somehow enherited this passion from both myself and my wife. Keeps them from sitting in front of the TV or PC as well. On the other hand, they take their books wherever they go and therefore their friends kinda look down upon them. Geez, they read BOOKS?
Not to mention the looks you must get for being such a strict parent and not letting them have any fun 😉
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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July 18, 2012 at 5:07 pm
SQLRNNR (7/18/2012)
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/18/2012)
GilaMonster (7/18/2012)
The first one as well as the second please? It has some deep stuff in, I promise,
Already added that one 😉
Steve, how do you manage to read 100 books a year? That's like one book every 2.5 days if you keep Saturdays for cleaning the barn and Sundays for spending with the family. Plus you do have a daytime job?
I manage maybe one book a month, and that's when I really have nothing else to do.
But yes, I agree with you, reading is one of these things that keep your mind going. My kids (now 18, 16 and 16) somehow enherited this passion from both myself and my wife. Keeps them from sitting in front of the TV or PC as well. On the other hand, they take their books wherever they go and therefore their friends kinda look down upon them. Geez, they read BOOKS?
Not to mention the looks you must get for being such a strict parent and not letting them have any fun 😉
Dunno, but it might well be they do that exactly for the purpose of embarrasing us parents?
July 18, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
SQLRNNR (7/18/2012)
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/18/2012)
GilaMonster (7/18/2012)
The first one as well as the second please? It has some deep stuff in, I promise,
Already added that one 😉
Steve, how do you manage to read 100 books a year? That's like one book every 2.5 days if you keep Saturdays for cleaning the barn and Sundays for spending with the family. Plus you do have a daytime job?
I manage maybe one book a month, and that's when I really have nothing else to do.
But yes, I agree with you, reading is one of these things that keep your mind going. My kids (now 18, 16 and 16) somehow enherited this passion from both myself and my wife. Keeps them from sitting in front of the TV or PC as well. On the other hand, they take their books wherever they go and therefore their friends kinda look down upon them. Geez, they read BOOKS?
Not to mention the looks you must get for being such a strict parent and not letting them have any fun 😉
Dunno, but it might well be they do that exactly for the purpose of embarrasing us parents?
ha, wouldn't embarrass me.:cool:
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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SQL RNNR
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July 18, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
Steve, how do you manage to read 100 books a year? That's like one book every 2.5 days if you keep Saturdays for cleaning the barn and Sundays for spending with the family. Plus you do have a daytime job?I manage maybe one book a month, and that's when I really have nothing else to do.
But yes, I agree with you, reading is one of these things that keep your mind going. My kids (now 18, 16 and 16) somehow enherited this passion from both myself and my wife. Keeps them from sitting in front of the TV or PC as well. On the other hand, they take their books wherever they go and therefore their friends kinda look down upon them. Geez, they read BOOKS?
My youngest are 4 and 6 - I think there are months where I go through 100 books.
I know that's not what you meant, but that was what went through my mind first 🙂
I'm lucky to get through 20/year, and that includes audiobooks.
July 18, 2012 at 5:13 pm
SQLRNNR (7/18/2012)
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
SQLRNNR (7/18/2012)
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/18/2012)
GilaMonster (7/18/2012)
The first one as well as the second please? It has some deep stuff in, I promise,
Already added that one 😉
Steve, how do you manage to read 100 books a year? That's like one book every 2.5 days if you keep Saturdays for cleaning the barn and Sundays for spending with the family. Plus you do have a daytime job?
I manage maybe one book a month, and that's when I really have nothing else to do.
But yes, I agree with you, reading is one of these things that keep your mind going. My kids (now 18, 16 and 16) somehow enherited this passion from both myself and my wife. Keeps them from sitting in front of the TV or PC as well. On the other hand, they take their books wherever they go and therefore their friends kinda look down upon them. Geez, they read BOOKS?
Not to mention the looks you must get for being such a strict parent and not letting them have any fun 😉
Dunno, but it might well be they do that exactly for the purpose of embarrasing us parents?
ha, wouldn't embarrass me.:cool:
Me neither - my daughter broke the school's all-time record for reading this last year. I was careful to encourage but not push (I wanted reading to be something she wanted to do, not something she felt forced or obligated to do). Boy was I proud. Both my daughters read EVERYWHERE. One of them went through the entire Harry Potter series in less than a month.
July 18, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Chad Crawford (7/18/2012)
SQLRNNR (7/18/2012)
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
SQLRNNR (7/18/2012)
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/18/2012)
GilaMonster (7/18/2012)
The first one as well as the second please? It has some deep stuff in, I promise,
Already added that one 😉
Steve, how do you manage to read 100 books a year? That's like one book every 2.5 days if you keep Saturdays for cleaning the barn and Sundays for spending with the family. Plus you do have a daytime job?
I manage maybe one book a month, and that's when I really have nothing else to do.
But yes, I agree with you, reading is one of these things that keep your mind going. My kids (now 18, 16 and 16) somehow enherited this passion from both myself and my wife. Keeps them from sitting in front of the TV or PC as well. On the other hand, they take their books wherever they go and therefore their friends kinda look down upon them. Geez, they read BOOKS?
Not to mention the looks you must get for being such a strict parent and not letting them have any fun 😉
Dunno, but it might well be they do that exactly for the purpose of embarrasing us parents?
ha, wouldn't embarrass me.:cool:
Me neither - my daughter broke the school's all-time record for reading this last year. I was careful to encourage but not push (I wanted reading to be something she wanted to do, not something she felt forced or obligated to do). Boy was I proud. Both my daughters read EVERYWHERE. One of them went through the entire Harry Potter series in less than a month.
I was just kidding, I don't feel embarrased at all. Actually I'm very proud of them for doing so, and therefore standing out of the crowd. All I meant was that they DO stand out of the crowd, and some of their friends make fun about it. But it seems they aren't too bothered about it. Good for them, it'll help them in more than one way.
July 18, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Jan Van der Eecken (7/18/2012)
Steve, how do you manage to read 100 books a year? That's like one book every 2.5 days if you keep Saturdays for cleaning the barn and Sundays for spending with the family. Plus you do have a daytime job?
I read fast. Usually. It depends on the material. I read a lot of fiction as a release, and in 3 hours I can knock out a 300-400 page paperback in fiction. Business stuff takes longer, and I'll usually read 10-15 minutes at a time and stop.
Lots of 10 minutes at a time. I used to carry books, now I read on my phone/Kindle, and always have books. I'll read during lunch a bit, maybe in bed at night, so it varies. Some days, no reading. Most days a bit, and then I'll find time once a week or so to read for a couple hours in a row.
On trips I tend to read in airplanes/airports. I'm not usually good at focusing then on tasks, so I read. I knocked out 2.5 on the LHR-DEN flights. Read another, or most of another, at night/mornings before/after the event.
Some weeks nothing, sometimes more. I ended up at 5.5 across 5 days going to London. Add in 12 trips a year, and I can often read 30-40 books in that time. The rest come along slowly. Vidal's Lincoln took me about 3 months, but I read other stuff in the middle of that.
July 18, 2012 at 9:07 pm
I'll also say it helps to have a bit of a reading club. When I read something Gail or Paul Randal recommend, it gets me excited. Andy Warren and I talk books often, and we share things that are worth reading. He likes more practical stuff, and I have to balance that out with fun stuff. That usually pushes me to read a bit more. Both my boys like to read, and we'll share books or talk about them, which is motivating as well.
My son got me to read The Hunger Games (like 2 days, stayed up way too late to finish it) and The Unincorporated Man. I turned him on to the Solar Clipper series and The Lost Fleet.
Downtime for me is often reading.
July 19, 2012 at 5:37 am
The Lost Fleet series is excellent.
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
July 19, 2012 at 5:42 am
100 books? I'm glad I can read 2 on a whole year (technical books not included).
Don't get me wrong, I love to read (read the whole Dexter series last year), I just can't find the time.
I have the Lord of the Rings saga waiting for me, but I never get around to start reading them.
Maybe it's the little kids who take away time and energy? I usually just stick to comic books and graphic novels, they read pretty fast 🙂
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July 19, 2012 at 7:13 am
Koen Verbeeck (7/19/2012)
I have the Lord of the Rings saga waiting for me, but I never get around to start reading them.
Does that include the Hobbit? I would definitely suggest starting there, then the trilogy, then the Silmarillion as a bonus, if you enjoy the LOTR.
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