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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 1

Jack Corbett (5/30/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/30/2014)
Everyone enjoy summer. Last chance to ping me for things before I'm gone for 6 weeks.
7 hours and counting....
Have a good time. Relax and enjoy doing something different for a bit.

Thanks

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The Dixie Flatline (5/30/2014)
Have a great summer, Steve.

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May 30, 2014 at 2:10 pm

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/30/2014)
SQLRNNR (5/30/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/30/2014)
Everyone enjoy summer. Last chance to ping me for things before I'm gone for 6 weeks.
7 hours and counting....
Admin login for ssc?:-D:-D:-D:-D
user: masteroftheuniverse@sqlservercentral.com
pwd: 0x03fd4a7fee42439BBFEOrSomethingEquallyH@rdT0G3ess

ROFL

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Jason Wolfkill SSCrazy Eights Points: 9832 More actions · Answer 5

I believe this is what the experts describe as "leveraging my content" - an answer to a question on a SQL Server Central forum doubles as a blog post.

Have a good weekend, everyone!!!

Jason Wolfkill

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wolfkillj (5/30/2014)
I believe this is what the experts describe as "leveraging my content" - an answer to a question on a SQL Server Central forum doubles as a blog post.
Have a good weekend, everyone!!!

it is. I do this all the time for many of my blog posts. I've also had people call this out in interviews because they can see how I help people and solve problems.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 7

wolfkillj (5/30/2014)
I believe this is what the experts describe as "leveraging my content" - an answer to a question on a SQL Server Central forum doubles as a blog post.
Have a good weekend, everyone!!!

It's a good way to get content and help people.

As Steve said, it also gets brought up sometimes in interviews.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 8

And that's it.

Enjoy the next 6 weeks, behave, and see you on the other side.

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 9

wolfkillj (5/30/2014)
SQLRNNR (5/30/2014)
wolfkillj (5/30/2014)
jcrawf02 (5/30/2014)
jasona.work (5/30/2014)
The impression I've gotten is that they already have a contract with NASA to ferry crew, it's just been waiting for the man-rated capsule to be completed and certified.
Dang, I would *love* to either catch a ride on Virgin Galactic SpaceShip 2, a Dragon v2, or even the Vomit Comet...
One of those three might actually be in my price range...
Of course, if I don't mind going a bit more old-school, I can easily afford one of these rides:
Yankee Air Museum[/url]
😀
Is it cheaper if you ride as tailgunner?
Got to tour one of these on the ground once, and a German one (can't remember which now, too long ago, think it was one of the the Junkers models, perhaps the 188). After all the documentaries and knowing the impact they had, seeing them in person was a shock. They're small!!! I can't imagine what it would be like to be airborne with a crew.
And OMG, the walkway from the cockpit/radio room through the bomb bay to the gunner's stations in the rear of the fuselage! It makes me quake in my shoes to think about crewmen crawling out there while airborne with the bomb bay doors open to free stuck release mechanisms, etc.
After seeing (and hearing) a B-17 and a B-24 make several low fly-bys over the downtown skyline for photos a few years ago, I can only imagine the deafening thunder of *hundreds* of those things passing overhead.
While it would be cool, I'd hate to be nearby if a sortie of this nature were coming. Ok for the adrenaline rush and peacetime type of flyover - but would hate to be near the target of that group if on an actual run.
Even with only two bombers flying overhead and being basically certain that they wouldn't be dropping any bombs, the noise of the engines made me want to run and hide. Of course, they were flying at about 1000 feet (304.8m) rather than many thousands of feet (or meters) as they did in actual bombing runs, but I suppose that the fear of what was coming when one heard the distant rumble of engines at that altitude would be terror enough.

Made my hair stand on end reading this. As a toddler with dad in the RAF we had a two-year tour in Gibraltar where we lived in one of the blocks of flats on the Gib side of the airstrip, Eastern Beach end. The flats are still there and easily visible on Boogle. Vampires and Sea Vixens used the base at that time - around 1962-3 - and the screaming racket their early jet engines made was astonishing. Funny thing is, you get used to it, even sleeping through half a dozen of them taking off, which shook the walls and made light articles on the kitchen counter dance to the edge.

Four years later we were at Kinloss in North-East Scotland, where a pair of Shackletons were dumped on hard standing near the inland end of the runway, just out of sight of the control tower near the other end. We used to scramble around those old planes looking for interesting bits to barter. They are a generation after the wartime bombers but you still had to practically crawl through parts of the plane to get from one end to the other.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 10

Did the "Recent Posts" link get moved? I don't see it any more all of a sudden.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 11

Sean Lange (6/2/2014)
Did the "Recent Posts" link get moved? I don't see it any more all of a sudden.

Looks like it got removed. That was a useful tool.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 12

SQLRNNR (6/2/2014)
Sean Lange (6/2/2014)
Did the "Recent Posts" link get moved? I don't see it any more all of a sudden.
Looks like it got removed. That was a useful tool.

I can see it on the same place as always.

Luis C.
General Disclaimer:
Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 13

Luis Cazares (6/2/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/2/2014)
Sean Lange (6/2/2014)
Did the "Recent Posts" link get moved? I don't see it any more all of a sudden.
Looks like it got removed. That was a useful tool.
I can see it on the same place as always.

It is back now. Must have been deploying some changes this morning. 😉

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Read the article at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ for best practices on asking questions.

Need to split a string? Try Jeff Modens splitter http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/.

Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 14

Between NOLOCK and no gaps in invoice numbers how much more fun can we have??

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 15

Lynn Pettis (6/2/2014)
Between NOLOCK and no gaps in invoice numbers how much more fun can we have??

No kidding. Seems to be blockhead Monday. 😀

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Read the article at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ for best practices on asking questions.

Need to split a string? Try Jeff Modens splitter http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/.

Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/