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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 1

David Burrows (6/16/2014)
Sean Lange (6/16/2014)
...a few technological advances (like goal line technology).
Except that in one match already, with two different views of the goal line, one clearly showed no goal the other clearly showed a goal :crazy:

Heh. In the evening news today they called it a 100% perfect technology.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 2

Evil Kraig F (6/16/2014)
Any chance one of y'all with inroads to the powers that be at RedGate could get someone to update the spam filters on the site for the duration of the World Cup?
I can barely find the threads in 'Active Threads' or 'Posts since my last visit' through all the garbage.

When reading this, I thought: "what? Those two or three spam threads a day?" Then I checked my 'recent posts'... Something has been going on since I left the office today. This is really horrible and pretty annoying.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 3

Koen Verbeeck (6/16/2014)
Evil Kraig F (6/16/2014)
Any chance one of y'all with inroads to the powers that be at RedGate could get someone to update the spam filters on the site for the duration of the World Cup?
I can barely find the threads in 'Active Threads' or 'Posts since my last visit' through all the garbage.
When reading this, I thought: "what? Those two or three spam threads a day?" Then I checked my 'recent posts'... Something has been going on since I left the office today. This is really horrible and pretty annoying.

Yes...yes it is!!! Pretty much renders the entire site useless.

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 4

The situation is quite annoying, as mentioned, a portion of the site is utterly useless because of spamming. It would only take a moderator about 5 minutes to sort this out though!

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 5

Sean Lange (6/16/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (6/16/2014)
Evil Kraig F (6/16/2014)
Any chance one of y'all with inroads to the powers that be at RedGate could get someone to update the spam filters on the site for the duration of the World Cup?
I can barely find the threads in 'Active Threads' or 'Posts since my last visit' through all the garbage.
When reading this, I thought: "what? Those two or three spam threads a day?" Then I checked my 'recent posts'... Something has been going on since I left the office today. This is really horrible and pretty annoying.
Yes...yes it is!!! Pretty much renders the entire site useless.

I've reached out to Grant and Redgate at Twitter.

Hopefully there is some action taken soon.

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

Koen Verbeeck (6/16/2014)
Sean Lange (6/16/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (6/16/2014)
Evil Kraig F (6/16/2014)
Any chance one of y'all with inroads to the powers that be at RedGate could get someone to update the spam filters on the site for the duration of the World Cup?
I can barely find the threads in 'Active Threads' or 'Posts since my last visit' through all the garbage.
When reading this, I thought: "what? Those two or three spam threads a day?" Then I checked my 'recent posts'... Something has been going on since I left the office today. This is really horrible and pretty annoying.
Yes...yes it is!!! Pretty much renders the entire site useless.
I've reached out to Grant and Redgate at Twitter.
Hopefully there is some action taken soon.

I know. I reported a bunch of them as spam, but I can't keep up.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 7

Koen Verbeeck (6/16/2014)
Sean Lange (6/16/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (6/16/2014)
Evil Kraig F (6/16/2014)
Any chance one of y'all with inroads to the powers that be at RedGate could get someone to update the spam filters on the site for the duration of the World Cup?
I can barely find the threads in 'Active Threads' or 'Posts since my last visit' through all the garbage.
When reading this, I thought: "what? Those two or three spam threads a day?" Then I checked my 'recent posts'... Something has been going on since I left the office today. This is really horrible and pretty annoying.
Yes...yes it is!!! Pretty much renders the entire site useless.
I've reached out to Grant and Redgate at Twitter.
Hopefully there is some action taken soon.

I don't know specifically who's running things, but I'm looking into it.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 8

Grant Fritchey (6/16/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (6/16/2014)
Sean Lange (6/16/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (6/16/2014)
Evil Kraig F (6/16/2014)
Any chance one of y'all with inroads to the powers that be at RedGate could get someone to update the spam filters on the site for the duration of the World Cup?
I can barely find the threads in 'Active Threads' or 'Posts since my last visit' through all the garbage.
When reading this, I thought: "what? Those two or three spam threads a day?" Then I checked my 'recent posts'... Something has been going on since I left the office today. This is really horrible and pretty annoying.
Yes...yes it is!!! Pretty much renders the entire site useless.
I've reached out to Grant and Redgate at Twitter.
Hopefully there is some action taken soon.
I don't know specifically who's running things, but I'm looking into it.

Thanks.

Now they are starting to spam about cricket matches.

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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23002 More actions · Answer 9

On the subject of cricket, and indeed watching sport in general, I learned a very useful little tip yesterday to make it much more easy to discreetly keep an eye on a match at work. If you use Excel and the 'Data from Web' function you can keep up on a spreadsheet rather than an internet window. It looks a little less obvious to the casual observer. Not that anybody would be watching at work of course 😎

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Stuart Davies SSCoach Points: 19505 More actions · Answer 10

BWFC (6/17/2014)
On the subject of cricket, and indeed watching sport in general, I learned a very useful little tip yesterday to make it much more easy to discreetly keep an eye on a match at work. If you use Excel and the 'Data from Web' function you can keep up on a spreadsheet rather than an internet window. It looks a little less obvious to the casual observer. Not that anybody would be watching at work of course 😎

Ooh - now that's a good idea!

Know what people mean about the spam - must have reported 30 or so this morning

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 11

Aaaaand back on-topic!

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1582030-391-1.aspx

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 12

rodjkidd (6/16/2014)
ChrisM@Work (6/16/2014)
Ed Wagner (6/16/2014)
GilaMonster (6/14/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (6/14/2014)
Ah, the world cup...
Yup, that's pretty much how I feel.
I have little interest in sport. Most of the time that's fine. This week, I can't even go to my favourite coffee shop without feeling like I'm at the stadium (TV turned up very loud)
+1. A lot of people sure do like it, though. I played soccer when I was 10 (before soccer was fashionable in the US), but I don't understand the mania that goes along with it nowadays.
Me neither.
Rugby players have a couple of amusing takes on football, such as the difference between the two sports- one's a played by men pretending to be hurt, the other's played by men pretending not to be. Football players are known as "Prancing lawn fairies". There's more but this is a family show.
I'm pretty sure I lost a second interview slot for saying something very similar to that on my way out of the first interview.
The company sponsored the nearest Premiership team!
Learnt to very important lessons there.
The interview isn't over until you really have left the building / said goodbye to the person showing you the way out
Remember what other ventures the company is involved with - like sponsorship 😉
Rodders...

Ajax. Keeping those to myself around here 😉

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 13

I'm not sure what happened in here :w00t:

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 14

Luis Cazares (6/17/2014)
I'm not sure what happened in here :w00t:

Now you just need to figure out how to have the inner window be logged in to a different account. 😛

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

Okay, now that's just plain weird. I've never seen that one before. I wonder...if you get the two windows logged in under a different account, which account would show up as the one who posted a message?

On the serious side, it looks fine on my system.

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