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

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

Inception!

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 2

Ed Wagner (6/17/2014)
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.

I'm back to normal now, but it was weird. As I said, I'm not even sure what I did. Somehow, below the inner frame was the rest of the "main page" which showed as a confirmation of a post. I might have paid more attention if I weren't working. 😀

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 3

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

Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?

My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.

Now it is all back to normal again.

This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.

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

Oh great, the soccer spam has returned. I'm starting to feel like the spam police. I reported a bunch of them so (hopefully) they'll be easier to find by the admin who's running the show in Steve's absence. It's probably Grant, since he has all the power. 😉

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 5

SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.

I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 6

Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.

It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 7

Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
😎

I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.

Mildly frustrating.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 8

SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
😎
I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.
Mildly frustrating.

I've been seeing all kinds of crap out of IE 11 lately, so I don't know if it's the site or the stupid browser. I'm getting read to switch back to Chrome for six months til it starts puking again.

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 9

SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
😎
I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.
Mildly frustrating.

Have you tried IE 11? I haven't but even Opera seems to work fine?

Noticed that "Remember me" doesn't help, wonder if this is a fault in session management?

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 10

Grant Fritchey (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
😎
I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.
Mildly frustrating.
I've been seeing all kinds of crap out of IE 11 lately, so I don't know if it's the site or the stupid browser. I'm getting read to switch back to Chrome for six months til it starts puking again.

Ever since the old days when doing security related work when IE earned the name of Internet Exploiter, I do not use it, neither do I ever recommend it.

😎

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 11

Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
😎
I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.
Mildly frustrating.
I've been seeing all kinds of crap out of IE 11 lately, so I don't know if it's the site or the stupid browser. I'm getting read to switch back to Chrome for six months til it starts puking again.
Ever since the old days when doing security related work when IE earned the name of Internet Exploiter, I do not use it, neither do I ever recommend it.
😎

I only use exploder when there are certain app requirements. Beyond that, it is chrome these days.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 12

Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
😎
I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.
Mildly frustrating.
I've been seeing all kinds of crap out of IE 11 lately, so I don't know if it's the site or the stupid browser. I'm getting read to switch back to Chrome for six months til it starts puking again.
Ever since the old days when doing security related work when IE earned the name of Internet Exploiter, I do not use it, neither do I ever recommend it.
😎

The security portions of that POS may be fixed but the rest of it still sucks. As I am primarily an ASP.NET developer we write our stuff to work every other browser. Then we have to go back and add a bunch of work arounds so IE will work too. :w00t:

I personally go back and forth between Chrome and FF pretty regularly.

_______________________________________________________________

Need help? Help us help you.

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/

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 13

Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
😎
I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.
Mildly frustrating.
I've been seeing all kinds of crap out of IE 11 lately, so I don't know if it's the site or the stupid browser. I'm getting read to switch back to Chrome for six months til it starts puking again.
Ever since the old days when doing security related work when IE earned the name of Internet Exploiter, I do not use it, neither do I ever recommend it.
😎

Me either. In fact, the NSA recently said "Do not use Internet Explorer until this security threat has been patched." They should have stopped at the word "Explorer" and left it at that. I stopped using it when IE 7 was released and I only use it now when I have to VPN into work. Other than that, it's Firefox for me.

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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 14

Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
😎
I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.
Mildly frustrating.
I've been seeing all kinds of crap out of IE 11 lately, so I don't know if it's the site or the stupid browser. I'm getting read to switch back to Chrome for six months til it starts puking again.
Ever since the old days when doing security related work when IE earned the name of Internet Exploiter, I do not use it, neither do I ever recommend it.
😎
The security portions of that POS may be fixed but the rest of it still sucks. As I am primarily an ASP.NET developer we write our stuff to work every other browser. Then we have to go back and add a bunch of work arounds so IE will work too. :w00t:
I personally go back and forth between Chrome and FF pretty regularly.

I haven't regularly used anything but IE since the early browser-wars of the mid-90s. I work for companies that mandate IE and have developed for those companies, so it has never seemed worthwhile to switch. And it isn't like Chrome and FF don't have their share of problems. Which one is it that, if you're logged in someone can see every password you've saved on the system in clear text?

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 15

Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
😎
I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.
Mildly frustrating.
I've been seeing all kinds of crap out of IE 11 lately, so I don't know if it's the site or the stupid browser. I'm getting read to switch back to Chrome for six months til it starts puking again.
Ever since the old days when doing security related work when IE earned the name of Internet Exploiter, I do not use it, neither do I ever recommend it.
😎
The security portions of that POS may be fixed but the rest of it still sucks. As I am primarily an ASP.NET developer we write our stuff to work every other browser. Then we have to go back and add a bunch of work arounds so IE will work too. :w00t:
I personally go back and forth between Chrome and FF pretty regularly.

My advice is keeping the tap on guys like these[/url] when it comes to choosing a browser.

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