Are the posted questions getting worse?
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Greg Edwards-268690 (4/20/2014)
dwain.c (4/20/2014)
Greg Edwards-268690 (4/20/2014)
Dwain -Hope my car is faster, as I can't even stretch a fish lie to make one that big. 😀
Not the '66, but still have a Goat in the garage.
This summer's project.
If you ever make it near Minnesota, look me up.
That's pretty cool. Had a lot of fun with my '68. What year is the Goat in your garage?
A friend of mine had a '66 GTO with the triple carbs. He also had a couple of others, a '70 that was pretty fast and another I believe that I can't recall the year on.
I still remember the old couple across the street from my house that had a mint '69 sitting in his driveway (many years after it was made) and I think it had like 30,000m on the clock. I had a standing offer to him to buy it but he wasn't selling.
Unlikely I'll ever make it to Minnesota (brrr!) but I'll keep your offer in mind. Same to you if you ever make it to BKK.
1969 GTO Judge - has a RAIII, but had a full tilt RAIV in it when my dad bought it back in the mid 70's.
Neither is the numbers matching engine, and it still has the deep gears and high stall converter.
So fun around town, but road trips are out of the question.
One of the neighbors has a '66 Tri Power 4 speed.
Don't see many of those anymore.
One of these?
Wow! An awesome street marauder!
My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?
My advice:
INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
[url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St -
Greg Edwards-268690 (4/20/2014)
Bucket List Challenge - teach Jim to Filet a fish properly.I'll keep trying, but I may fail miserably.
Fillet "a fish" is not a good test. I can fillet brown trout, dover sole, lemon sole, sea trout, see bass, hake, lythe, saithe, and salmon (and a few other NE Atlantic and Mediterranean fish whose English names I dont know) because they are worth filleting. I can also fillet rainbow trout, but most Americans and Canadians who know me think I can't because my method of filleting it doesn't separate any bits (I just chuck the whole fish in the rubbish bin). I haven't a clue how to fillet the sort of stuff that you guys catch (well, maybe my rainbow trout treatment would be appropriate, but maybe not) but I don't think that detracts from my dba abilities, because actually, I have no dba abilites to detract from - I'm totally aganst this over-specialisation thing that invented dbas - but I have to admit I'm probably overspecialised when it comes to fish filleting.
Tom
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TomThomson (4/20/2014)
Greg Edwards-268690 (4/20/2014)
Bucket List Challenge - teach Jim to Filet a fish properly.I'll keep trying, but I may fail miserably.
Fillet "a fish" is not a good test. I can fillet brown trout, dover sole, lemon sole, sea trout, see bass, hake, lythe, saithe, and salmon (and a few other NE Atlantic and Mediterranean fish whose English names I dont know) because they are worth filleting. I can also fillet rainbow trout, but most Americans and Canadians who know me think I can't because my method of filleting it doesn't separate any bits (I just chuck the whole fish in the rubbish bin). I haven't a clue how to fillet the sort of stuff that you guys catch (well, maybe my rainbow trout treatment would be appropriate, but maybe not) but I don't think that detracts from my dba abilities, because actually, I have no dba abilites to detract from - I'm totally aganst this over-specialisation thing that invented dbas - but I have to admit I'm probably overspecialised when it comes to fish filleting.
If I could teach Jim to filet a fish properly, like I could teach him to do anything.
Ever have someone "I've got it", then blazes ahead doing exactly what you've said not to do?
Mike and I filet, so Jim and Anatoly can have some fish to eat.
Never have gotten Anatoly to wield a knife, so I feel we have a second challenge available.
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Dwain -
More like a barn find than the one in your picture.
But very little rust, and only 24k original miles.
You can see it's been awhile since dad last drove it. 😀
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:crying:
Why, oh why, oh why do people insist on pulling scripts off the internet then asking us to modify them to do what they want the scripts to do without trying to learn how the scripts work in the first place?
I mean, if someone is going to do fancy things with a script, I'd think they would want to know how to support (and why it does or doesn't work) so they wouldn't waste their time when things go wrong.
Is it so wrong of me to hold that opinion?
SIGH.
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Brandie Tarvin (4/21/2014)
:crying:Why, oh why, oh why do people insist on pulling scripts off the internet then asking us to modify them to do what they want the scripts to do without trying to learn how the scripts work in the first place?
I mean, if someone is going to do fancy things with a script, I'd think they would want to know how to support (and why it does or doesn't work) so they wouldn't waste their time when things go wrong.
Is it so wrong of me to hold that opinion?
SIGH.
Because they are entitled to free support and are not responsible for the code not working if it came from the internet. It was out there for everyone to use so it must be right.
Did I use just the right amount of sarcasm??
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Lynn Pettis (4/21/2014)
Brandie Tarvin (4/21/2014)
:crying:Why, oh why, oh why do people insist on pulling scripts off the internet then asking us to modify them to do what they want the scripts to do without trying to learn how the scripts work in the first place?
I mean, if someone is going to do fancy things with a script, I'd think they would want to know how to support (and why it does or doesn't work) so they wouldn't waste their time when things go wrong.
Is it so wrong of me to hold that opinion?
SIGH.
Because they are entitled to free support and are not responsible for the code not working if it came from the internet. It was out there for everyone to use so it must be right.
Did I use just the right amount of sarcasm??
Yeah, I'd say that's about right. I thought I saw the sarcasm icon in there. The sad part is that it's so very true. They're both entitled and not responsible, both of which drive me crazy.
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Ed Wagner (4/21/2014)
Lynn Pettis (4/21/2014)
Brandie Tarvin (4/21/2014)
:crying:Why, oh why, oh why do people insist on pulling scripts off the internet then asking us to modify them to do what they want the scripts to do without trying to learn how the scripts work in the first place?
I mean, if someone is going to do fancy things with a script, I'd think they would want to know how to support (and why it does or doesn't work) so they wouldn't waste their time when things go wrong.
Is it so wrong of me to hold that opinion?
SIGH.
Because they are entitled to free support and are not responsible for the code not working if it came from the internet. It was out there for everyone to use so it must be right.
Did I use just the right amount of sarcasm??
Yeah, I'd say that's about right. I thought I saw the sarcasm icon in there. The sad part is that it's so very true. They're both entitled and not responsible, both of which drive me crazy.
If you have someone else to blame, and can get them to do your work for free, doesn't that naturally free up more time to enjoy as you please?
Wait until someone creates the business model where you pay for being able to submit answers.
Might create some stupidly rich people. 😀
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Greg Edwards-268690 (4/21/2014)
Dwain -More like a barn find than the one in your picture.
But very little rust, and only 24k original miles.
You can see it's been awhile since dad last drove it. 😀
Still sweet! It's even the same color as my '68 was originally.
My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?
My advice:
INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
[url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St -
Greg Edwards-268690 (4/21/2014)
TomThomson (4/20/2014)
Greg Edwards-268690 (4/20/2014)
Bucket List Challenge - teach Jim to Filet a fish properly.I'll keep trying, but I may fail miserably.
Fillet "a fish" is not a good test. I can fillet brown trout, dover sole, lemon sole, sea trout, see bass, hake, lythe, saithe, and salmon (and a few other NE Atlantic and Mediterranean fish whose English names I dont know) because they are worth filleting. I can also fillet rainbow trout, but most Americans and Canadians who know me think I can't because my method of filleting it doesn't separate any bits (I just chuck the whole fish in the rubbish bin). I haven't a clue how to fillet the sort of stuff that you guys catch (well, maybe my rainbow trout treatment would be appropriate, but maybe not) but I don't think that detracts from my dba abilities, because actually, I have no dba abilites to detract from - I'm totally aganst this over-specialisation thing that invented dbas - but I have to admit I'm probably overspecialised when it comes to fish filleting.
If I could teach Jim to filet a fish properly, like I could teach him to do anything.
Ever have someone "I've got it", then blazes ahead doing exactly what you've said not to do?
Mike and I filet, so Jim and Anatoly can have some fish to eat.
Never have gotten Anatoly to wield a knife, so I feel we have a second challenge available.
Buy a man a fish and he can feed his family for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he can feed his family forever.
Teach a man to fillet a fish and he can still only feed his family for a day.
My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?
My advice:
INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
[url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St -
dwain.c (4/21/2014)
Greg Edwards-268690 (4/21/2014)
TomThomson (4/20/2014)
Greg Edwards-268690 (4/20/2014)
Bucket List Challenge - teach Jim to Filet a fish properly.I'll keep trying, but I may fail miserably.
Fillet "a fish" is not a good test. I can fillet brown trout, dover sole, lemon sole, sea trout, see bass, hake, lythe, saithe, and salmon (and a few other NE Atlantic and Mediterranean fish whose English names I dont know) because they are worth filleting. I can also fillet rainbow trout, but most Americans and Canadians who know me think I can't because my method of filleting it doesn't separate any bits (I just chuck the whole fish in the rubbish bin). I haven't a clue how to fillet the sort of stuff that you guys catch (well, maybe my rainbow trout treatment would be appropriate, but maybe not) but I don't think that detracts from my dba abilities, because actually, I have no dba abilites to detract from - I'm totally aganst this over-specialisation thing that invented dbas - but I have to admit I'm probably overspecialised when it comes to fish filleting.
If I could teach Jim to filet a fish properly, like I could teach him to do anything.
Ever have someone "I've got it", then blazes ahead doing exactly what you've said not to do?
Mike and I filet, so Jim and Anatoly can have some fish to eat.
Never have gotten Anatoly to wield a knife, so I feel we have a second challenge available.
Buy a man a fish and he can feed his family for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he can feed his family forever.
Teach a man to fillet a fish and he can still only feed his family for a day.
In Jim's case, you are lucky to get a full bite.
In Tom's case, it sounds like they have nothing, although it's intentional.
I'll have to see if I can find the pic.
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The Surgeon
Which are the boneless filets? Kind of a tricky question.
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*THAT* is a filleted fish?
Ummm, would you take it the wrong way if I begged you to keep your day job and forget about opening that restaurant? @=)
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The carnage!!
That looks like he was trying to practice his Norman Bates / Jason Voorhees routine...
:hehe:
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Are you sure he used a knife and not a shotgun? 🙂
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