October 1, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Ed Wagner (10/1/2013)
jasona.work (10/1/2013)
Thanks. I initially held off on doing that, kind of felt like bringing gun to a hammer fight...First of all, there's nothing wrong with being over-armed. Need I refer you back to the spud gun? 😀
Second, report them. I don't even use the MS forums because of the degrading and rude garbage I've seen posted, not to mention that they don't even get to the answer. I know this is only my experience alone, but they left a strong impression.
I think its about ten and a half years since I gave up on MS forums. Quite apart from the total absence of useful response and the predominance of self-aggrandisement and bullying, letting your email address be visible in there was a guaranteed opening for a deluge of spam (thank heavens for disposable addresses). They may have improved since. Or not.
Tom
October 1, 2013 at 4:04 pm
GilaMonster (10/1/2013)
SQLRNNR (10/1/2013)
Paul White (10/1/2013)
GilaMonster (10/1/2013)
And if you want details, come to the WIT lunch on the Thursday.I'll be there. A bit scared, probably, but I'll be there.
Good.
I'll probably be late to the WIT lunch. I have a commitment in the Community Zone for part of the lunch.
I'm on the panel this year, so being late is not an option. Don't know what nuggets of wisdom they expect me to impart, but whatever...
I'm at the official bloggers table for the WIT Lunch. Not sure what that means, but you lot had best keep in line. That's all I'm saying.
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October 1, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Ed Wagner (10/1/2013)
Stefan Krzywicki (10/1/2013)
Sean Lange (10/1/2013)
Stefan Krzywicki (10/1/2013)
jcrawf02 (10/1/2013)
Stefan Krzywicki (10/1/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (10/1/2013)
Stefan Krzywicki (10/1/2013)
I now know why people hire wedding planners. Wow, this is a lot of work.Yes. Yes it is. And you'll kick yourself for forgetting that one important thing that didn't seem important now but will become important on The Big Day.
Oh good, this should help my current stress levels, thanks! : -P
I think I've got everything set. I'm just agonizing over the music playlists and then I should be done.
We did screw up by not including a dress code in the invitations and by not registering until long after the invitations had gone out. We've gotten a lot of questions about those two things, but it's getting handled.
FWIW, people will wear whatever they want and buy you whatever they want anyway, even the ones that asked you. Good call on the music, we hired a DJ who asked us what we wanted and then played his own crap anyway.
Important thing is (and try to get your fiancee to do this too) to HAVE FUN YOURSELVES! Screw the guests, if they aren't having fun celebrating your joy, then they shouldn't come anyway. Don't stress about that one important thing, nothing is important except for each other. (and the license)
We did remember the license. : -)
We're telling people to wear what they like. SF/superhero garb (The invitation comic was a SF comic with a superhero themed text & a 1940s song lyric), medieval (the venue), formal (it is a wedding) or casual 'cause why not.
And yeah, I remember that happening with the music at a friends wedding. He specifically asked the DJ not to play certain songs, & the guy played them anyway.
The whole DJ nonsense is exactly why I took care of the music for our wedding. I hired a local big band. Being a musician myself we made a solid connection and he understood where I was coming from musically. They let me join them for a few songs and a number of family/friends are singers so they also got to join in as the even progressed. My wife and her uncle have a long history with polka dancing so the band even learned a polka for us. Honestly it was the band that took the atmosphere over the top for us. The rest of the evening was pretty traditional stuff.
Nice. I ran a wedding for my best friend around 15 years ago and did all his music for him, ripping it to CDs, worked really nicely.
One thing that would have been nice is if Emily and I had managed to take dance classes to do some swing dancing at the wedding. A nice foxtrot, jitterbug or lindy would have been fun.
Stefan - congratulations. Be sure to take the time during the day to have fun. Don't let the whirlwind of the day go by and wonder what happened. Recognize it as a special day and enjoy yourselves.
Also remember that after all the planning, details and cash you put into the day, what isn't planned by that day isn't going to get done. At that point, do what you're there to do, have fun and let someone else worry about the details.
Thanks
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October 1, 2013 at 4:14 pm
Grant Fritchey (10/1/2013)
GilaMonster (10/1/2013)
SQLRNNR (10/1/2013)
Paul White (10/1/2013)
GilaMonster (10/1/2013)
And if you want details, come to the WIT lunch on the Thursday.I'll be there. A bit scared, probably, but I'll be there.
Good.
I'll probably be late to the WIT lunch. I have a commitment in the Community Zone for part of the lunch.
I'm on the panel this year, so being late is not an option. Don't know what nuggets of wisdom they expect me to impart, but whatever...
I'm at the official bloggers table for the WIT Lunch. Not sure what that means, but you lot had best keep in line. That's all I'm saying.
You know us better than that Grant. Of course we won't keep in line.
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October 1, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Grant Fritchey (10/1/2013)
GilaMonster (10/1/2013)
SQLRNNR (10/1/2013)
Paul White (10/1/2013)
GilaMonster (10/1/2013)
And if you want details, come to the WIT lunch on the Thursday.I'll be there. A bit scared, probably, but I'll be there.
Good.
I'll probably be late to the WIT lunch. I have a commitment in the Community Zone for part of the lunch.
I'm on the panel this year, so being late is not an option. Don't know what nuggets of wisdom they expect me to impart, but whatever...
I'm at the official bloggers table for the WIT Lunch. Not sure what that means, but you lot had best keep in line. That's all I'm saying.
There's a blogger's table at lunch now? Isn't that going a little far?
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
October 1, 2013 at 5:54 pm
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Could be the best thing to happen in years.
Living in Thailand, I'm hoping our government follows suit.
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My advice:
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October 1, 2013 at 11:39 pm
Sean Lange (10/1/2013)
Stefan Krzywicki (10/1/2013)
I now know why people hire wedding planners. Wow, this is a lot of work.haha. I picked the band, the food and the tuxedos. Other than that the phrase most often heard from me around those planning my wedding was "tell me where to stand". My wife and mother in-law spent countless hours fretting over all the details. In the end it was worth the effort they put into it though. It has been 11 years (this month) and we still hear from relatives how much fun our wedding was.
Yes, I didn't have much say in the planning of my wedding back in 86, nor much say in the divorce in 11. Looking forward to the reconciliation when I redeploy to the States from Afghanistan!
October 2, 2013 at 1:02 am
L' Eomot Inversé (10/1/2013)
Ed Wagner (10/1/2013)
jasona.work (10/1/2013)
Thanks. I initially held off on doing that, kind of felt like bringing gun to a hammer fight...First of all, there's nothing wrong with being over-armed. Need I refer you back to the spud gun? 😀
Second, report them. I don't even use the MS forums because of the degrading and rude garbage I've seen posted, not to mention that they don't even get to the answer. I know this is only my experience alone, but they left a strong impression.
I think its about ten and a half years since I gave up on MS forums. Quite apart from the total absence of useful response and the predominance of self-aggrandisement and bullying, letting your email address be visible in there was a guaranteed opening for a deluge of spam (thank heavens for disposable addresses). They may have improved since. Or not.
They have improved a bit (not regarding layout though). You sign in with the Microsoft Live ID, so your email is not visible.
I only speak from experience in the SSIS forum, but that one is quite useful. There are more MVPs and SSIS experts lurking on that forum than here for example.
From time to time though you have those persons from a certain country in the east trying to score as much points as possible, leading to ridiculous answers or just answers repeating other answers.
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October 2, 2013 at 1:24 am
On topic:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1500646-1292-1.aspx
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October 2, 2013 at 5:40 am
Koen Verbeeck (10/2/2013)
On topic:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1500646-1292-1.aspx
Wow.
Servers dedicated to a dataset.
Never worked somewhere where that was an option.
I feel like asking if the data sets come from the same database and it is beng replicated to the other servers.:-D
October 2, 2013 at 6:12 am
GilaMonster (10/1/2013)
Grant Fritchey (10/1/2013)
GilaMonster (10/1/2013)
SQLRNNR (10/1/2013)
Paul White (10/1/2013)
GilaMonster (10/1/2013)
And if you want details, come to the WIT lunch on the Thursday.I'll be there. A bit scared, probably, but I'll be there.
Good.
I'll probably be late to the WIT lunch. I have a commitment in the Community Zone for part of the lunch.
I'm on the panel this year, so being late is not an option. Don't know what nuggets of wisdom they expect me to impart, but whatever...
I'm at the official bloggers table for the WIT Lunch. Not sure what that means, but you lot had best keep in line. That's all I'm saying.
There's a blogger's table at lunch now? Isn't that going a little far?
Yeah, probably. But they asked, so I said yes.
"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
October 2, 2013 at 7:31 am
Lynn Pettis (10/1/2013)
Sean Lange (10/1/2013)
Stefan Krzywicki (10/1/2013)
I now know why people hire wedding planners. Wow, this is a lot of work.haha. I picked the band, the food and the tuxedos. Other than that the phrase most often heard from me around those planning my wedding was "tell me where to stand". My wife and mother in-law spent countless hours fretting over all the details. In the end it was worth the effort they put into it though. It has been 11 years (this month) and we still hear from relatives how much fun our wedding was.
Yes, I didn't have much say in the planning of my wedding back in 86, nor much say in the divorce in 11. Looking forward to the reconciliation when I redeploy to the States from Afghanistan!
Great luck to you!
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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
October 2, 2013 at 8:08 am
Koen Verbeeck (10/2/2013)
On topic:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1500646-1292-1.aspx
Oh my. I hope that's not what they're teaching in "university" now. :sick:
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
October 2, 2013 at 8:30 am
Jeff Moden (10/2/2013)
Koen Verbeeck (10/2/2013)
On topic:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1500646-1292-1.aspx
Oh my. I hope that's not what they're teaching in "university" now. :sick:
If you have read any of the other posts by that person you would know that if they actually went to "university" they didn't learn anything. There have been numerous threads about using dynamic sql, all of which have had some of us responding to cease and desist with the approach being taken. All in all quite scary to say the least.
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October 2, 2013 at 8:45 am
Jeff Moden (10/2/2013)
Koen Verbeeck (10/2/2013)
On topic:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1500646-1292-1.aspx
Oh my. I hope that's not what they're teaching in "university" now. :sick:
It is probably a university course. It is not too far from what one of my courses was. Yeah, the professor was unqualified and the content shallow at best, but the course was required.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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