Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22999 More actions · Answer 1

jasona.work (6/13/2014)
Awful quiet in here over the last couple days...
Should we turn out the lights on this thread?
:hehe:

It only takes a gentle poke to wake it.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 2

Anyone else getting real weird formatting in the text box when replying to posts? It's all squished over to the left side of the screen.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 3

Grant Fritchey (6/13/2014)
Anyone else getting real weird formatting in the text box when replying to posts? It's all squished over to the left side of the screen.

Don't notice anything different.

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 4

Grant Fritchey (6/13/2014)
Anyone else getting real weird formatting in the text box when replying to posts? It's all squished over to the left side of the screen.

I haven't seen that at all. I did get a few web server errors earlier this morning, but nothing since then.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 5

Grant Fritchey (6/13/2014)
Anyone else getting real weird formatting in the text box when replying to posts? It's all squished over to the left side of the screen.

I used to get that in one of the versions of IE after I had updated it. But it self resolved. Never seen that particular issue in Chrome or Firefox.

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 6

SQLRNNR (6/13/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/13/2014)
Anyone else getting real weird formatting in the text box when replying to posts? It's all squished over to the left side of the screen.
I used to get that in one of the versions of IE after I had updated it. But it self resolved. Never seen that particular issue in Chrome or Firefox.

Yeah, Firefox just seems to work. IE breaks too much for my taste.

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 7

jasona.work (6/13/2014)
Awful quiet in here over the last couple days...
Should we turn out the lights on this thread?
:hehe:

We have lights in here now? THAT's why I've been squinting at the screen so much.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 8

Thought process of last 10 minutes.

- Tune a proc quick, then go home

- Wait, it's got user defined functions

- Wait, the UDFs have cursors

- I'm going home!

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 9

Go home before you kill the developer or after you kill him?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

I doubt anyone knows who the responsible party is. Tuning a client's system, one that's been developed by 'experts' and enhanced by everyone and their dog and has been around long enough it remembers what upgrading to SQL 2000 was like.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (6/13/2014)
Thought process of last 10 minutes.
- Tune a proc quick, then go home
- Wait, it's got user defined functions
- Wait, the UDFs have cursors
- I'm going home!

:hehe:

The cursors in the UDFs call more UDFs with more cursors?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 12

SQLRNNR (6/13/2014)
GilaMonster (6/13/2014)
Thought process of last 10 minutes.
- Tune a proc quick, then go home
- Wait, it's got user defined functions
- Wait, the UDFs have cursors
- I'm going home!
:hehe:
The cursors in the UDFs call more UDFs with more cursors?

Fortunately no, they're just doing string concatenation the hard way.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 13

GilaMonster (6/13/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/13/2014)
GilaMonster (6/13/2014)
Thought process of last 10 minutes.
- Tune a proc quick, then go home
- Wait, it's got user defined functions
- Wait, the UDFs have cursors
- I'm going home!
:hehe:
The cursors in the UDFs call more UDFs with more cursors?
Fortunately no, they're just doing string concatenation the hard way.

*sigh*

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 14

GilaMonster (6/13/2014)
Thought process of last 10 minutes.
- Tune a proc quick, then go home
- Wait, it's got user defined functions
- Wait, the UDFs have cursors
- I'm going home!

There's a great decision.

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 15

Jack Corbett (6/13/2014)
GilaMonster (6/13/2014)
Thought process of last 10 minutes.
- Tune a proc quick, then go home
- Wait, it's got user defined functions
- Wait, the UDFs have cursors
- I'm going home!
There's a great decision.

Yeah, really. It's Friday at 11:30 EST, so I think that sounds like a good idea.

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