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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 1

Ugh, sick for a week blows. I miss anything of import since last Tuesday?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

Evil Kraig F (7/31/2012)
Ugh, sick for a week blows. I miss anything of import since last Tuesday?

Vacation! Mine! (no, you're not invited 🙂 )

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster (7/31/2012)
Evil Kraig F (7/31/2012)
Ugh, sick for a week blows. I miss anything of import since last Tuesday?
Vacation! Mine! (no, you're not invited 🙂 )

speaking of vacations, I just got back from Machu Picchu, Peru!

spent a week with my wife marching my fat butt up and down some mountains filled with some beautiful ruins.

Lowell

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736478 More actions · Answer 4

Lowell (7/31/2012)
speaking of vacations, I just got back from Machu Picchu, Peru!
spent a week with my wife marching my fat butt up and down some mountains filled with some beautiful ruins.

Uh, that doesn't look like marching.

george sibbald SSC Guru Points: 104210 More actions · Answer 5

Lowell is demonstrating the principle that an army marches on its stomach

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Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86978 More actions · Answer 6

SQLRNNR (7/27/2012)
SQL Kiwi (7/27/2012)
And people ask me why I don't post as much on SSC as I used to 🙁
Really unfortunate - I would love to see more from you here on SSC.

Paul - I would have to agree with this. You've made some excellent contributions in the past (that I have seen, being a relatively recent joiner) and it would be shameful to lose such a helpful and knowledgeable contributor just because a few non-sensical conflicts.

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 7

dwain.c (7/31/2012)
SQLRNNR (7/27/2012)
SQL Kiwi (7/27/2012)
And people ask me why I don't post as much on SSC as I used to 🙁
Really unfortunate - I would love to see more from you here on SSC.
Paul - I would have to agree with this. You've made some excellent contributions in the past (that I have seen, being a relatively recent joiner) and it would be shameful to lose such a helpful and knowledgeable contributor just because a few non-sensical conflicts.

Another vote here. Few of your posts offer merely a solution, Paul. There's usually an eye-opening lagniappe or caveat for us to explore. Please don't give up.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 8

ChrisM@Work (8/1/2012)
dwain.c (7/31/2012)
SQLRNNR (7/27/2012)
SQL Kiwi (7/27/2012)
And people ask me why I don't post as much on SSC as I used to 🙁
Really unfortunate - I would love to see more from you here on SSC.
Paul - I would have to agree with this. You've made some excellent contributions in the past (that I have seen, being a relatively recent joiner) and it would be shameful to lose such a helpful and knowledgeable contributor just because a few non-sensical conflicts.
Another vote here. Few of your posts offer merely a solution, Paul. There's usually an eye-opening lagniappe or caveat for us to explore. Please don't give up.

And another vote here, Paul. You make some of the best contributions.

Tom

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 9

L' Eomot Inversé (8/1/2012)
ChrisM@Work (8/1/2012)
dwain.c (7/31/2012)
SQLRNNR (7/27/2012)
SQL Kiwi (7/27/2012)
And people ask me why I don't post as much on SSC as I used to 🙁
Really unfortunate - I would love to see more from you here on SSC.
Paul - I would have to agree with this. You've made some excellent contributions in the past (that I have seen, being a relatively recent joiner) and it would be shameful to lose such a helpful and knowledgeable contributor just because a few non-sensical conflicts.
Another vote here. Few of your posts offer merely a solution, Paul. There's usually an eye-opening lagniappe or caveat for us to explore. Please don't give up.
And another vote here, Paul. You make some of the best contributions.

+1 Who else will correct my crappy TSQL? 😀

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173080 More actions · Answer 10

george sibbald (7/31/2012)
Lowell is demonstrating the principle that an army marches on its stomach

Bwhahahahahaha.

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Kiara SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4185 More actions · Answer 11

Does this look like a giant advertisement to anyone else?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1039196-391-1.aspx

-Ki

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 12

Kiara (8/1/2012)
Does this look like a giant advertisement to anyone else?
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1039196-391-1.aspx

Nah, I'm sure 5 different people are going to swoop in and post once time on the same forum just by coincidence...

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 13

Grant Fritchey (8/1/2012)
Kiara (8/1/2012)
Does this look like a giant advertisement to anyone else?
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1039196-391-1.aspx
Nah, I'm sure 5 different people are going to swoop in and post once time on the same forum just by coincidence...

Well, some of it certainly looks like a snake-oil salesman and his sock-puppets. But it seems pretty likely that anyone reading the whole discussion would cross the plugged product off their list of candidates for purchase, so it's not a very successful advertising effort (unlesss you believe that all publicity is good publicity, so acquiring a reputation even for over-puffed snake oil is good for sales).

A giant screwed-up attempt at advertising, perhaps?

Tom

GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 14

L' Eomot Inversé (8/1/2012)
Grant Fritchey (8/1/2012)
Kiara (8/1/2012)
Does this look like a giant advertisement to anyone else?
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1039196-391-1.aspx
Nah, I'm sure 5 different people are going to swoop in and post once time on the same forum just by coincidence...
Well, some of it certainly looks like a snake-oil salesman and his sock-puppets. But it seems pretty likely that anyone reading the whole discussion would cross the plugged product off their list of candidates for purchase, so it's not a very successful advertising effort (unlesss you believe that all publicity is good publicity, so acquiring a reputation even for over-puffed snake oil is good for sales).
A giant screwed-up attempt at advertising, perhaps?

Considering the date-stamps, I doubt it was a marketing campaign. More like someone posted some negative data, and a sales/marketing person from the company tried to make it look good, but others then, over time, posted mostly negative about it. Too much time between posts for it to be a campaign.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736478 More actions · Answer 15

GSquared (8/1/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (8/1/2012)
Grant Fritchey (8/1/2012)
Kiara (8/1/2012)
Does this look like a giant advertisement to anyone else?
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1039196-391-1.aspx
Nah, I'm sure 5 different people are going to swoop in and post once time on the same forum just by coincidence...
Well, some of it certainly looks like a snake-oil salesman and his sock-puppets. But it seems pretty likely that anyone reading the whole discussion would cross the plugged product off their list of candidates for purchase, so it's not a very successful advertising effort (unlesss you believe that all publicity is good publicity, so acquiring a reputation even for over-puffed snake oil is good for sales).
A giant screwed-up attempt at advertising, perhaps?
Considering the date-stamps, I doubt it was a marketing campaign. More like someone posted some negative data, and a sales/marketing person from the company tried to make it look good, but others then, over time, posted mostly negative about it. Too much time between posts for it to be a campaign.

Possibly. I've seen a few talks on the product and some people seem to like it, but it's a bit of a paradigm shift for how you work.