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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 1

GilaMonster (8/12/2014)
I'd love some rain. It's getting towards the end of winter here and it is soooo dry.

I wish I could give you some of ours. I'm beginning to dislike English summers nearly as much as I disliked English winters in the bad old days when I had to suffer them.

Tom

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TomThomson (8/13/2014)
I wish I could give you some of ours. I'm beginning to dislike English summers nearly as much as I disliked English winters in the bad old days when I had to suffer them.

Id there any differnce between English summer and winter? Except for the temperature, of course...

Maybe the angle the rain comes down? 😉

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 4

TomThomson (8/13/2014)
GilaMonster (8/12/2014)
I'd love some rain. It's getting towards the end of winter here and it is soooo dry.
I wish I could give you some of ours. I'm beginning to dislike English summers nearly as much as I disliked English winters in the bad old days when I had to suffer them.

Funny, the two weeks I was there, blazing sunshine, high temperatures, rained once, for a couple of hours.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 5

GilaMonster (8/13/2014)
TomThomson (8/13/2014)
GilaMonster (8/12/2014)
I'd love some rain. It's getting towards the end of winter here and it is soooo dry.
I wish I could give you some of ours. I'm beginning to dislike English summers nearly as much as I disliked English winters in the bad old days when I had to suffer them.
Funny, the two weeks I was there, blazing sunshine, high temperatures, rained once, for a couple of hours.

Ye, we had about 20 days when it hit at least 25 every day here; I couldn't get over to Telford then because I was ferrying Ann between home and doctor/hospital regularly, or we might have met. But since then (when she could get out and enjoy the good weather if there was any - she actually managed two 3 hour sessions on a sun bed in the yard so it's not been a total weather disaster) it's been pretty bad: hot some days, but very heavy rain intermittently on the hot days and fairly heavy rain much of the time on most of the not so hot days.

Tom

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 6

TomThomson (8/13/2014)
GilaMonster (8/13/2014)
TomThomson (8/13/2014)
GilaMonster (8/12/2014)
I'd love some rain. It's getting towards the end of winter here and it is soooo dry.
I wish I could give you some of ours. I'm beginning to dislike English summers nearly as much as I disliked English winters in the bad old days when I had to suffer them.
Funny, the two weeks I was there, blazing sunshine, high temperatures, rained once, for a couple of hours.
Ye, we had about 20 days when it hit at least 25 every day here; I couldn't get over to Telford then because I was ferrying Ann between home and doctor/hospital regularly, or we might have met. But since then (when she could get out and enjoy the good weather if there was any - she actually managed two 3 hour sessions on a sun bed in the yard so it's not been a total weather disaster) it's been pretty bad: hot some days, but very heavy rain intermittently on the hot days and fairly heavy rain much of the time on most of the not so hot days.

A little further south in the Thames Valley, this is the best summer we've had for six or seven years. Sure there's been a little rain but it's kept the grass green (remember '76/'77, Tom?). I'd be very happy with more summers like this.

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andrew gothard SSChampion Points: 12314 More actions · Answer 7

Lynn Pettis (7/30/2014)
Really?? Let's put a 500 million row table into an in-memory table.

Hey, if it's still slow, you can also add an index on every column ...

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djj SSCoach Points: 18831 More actions · Answer 8

ChrisM@Work (8/14/2014)
remember '76/'77

Wish I could remember what last year was like, I remember some nice days for '77 as I have a picture of me from a company picnic. 🙂

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 9

In case any of you missed it and want to ensure a picture gets posted to The Thread... http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/114685/

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/14/2014)
In case any of you missed it and want to ensure a picture gets posted to The Thread... http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/114685/

FWIW - one of the links to Doctors without Borders is busted (first link) while the other appears to work (last link).

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Jason Wolfkill SSCrazy Eights Points: 9832 More actions · Answer 11

jcrawf02 (8/13/2014)
rodjkidd (8/13/2014)
Ed Wagner (8/13/2014)
rodjkidd (8/13/2014)
Ed and Jason,
Some serious rain there. Glad to hear you are all OK.
Rodders...
Thanks for all the well wishes, everyone. Things are starting to dry out around here; there's only one freeway that's still closed due to about 13 feet of water. :w00t: I heard that Long Island, NY is being hit by the same system today.
Good news!
Now if you could just collect some of that water in buckets and send them to Gail... :w00t:
Rodders...
Too heavy to ship. You should dehydrate it before you FedEx it, then she can rehydrate it on her end.

Comedian Steven Wright already tried this - "I invented instant water, but I had to throw it away. I couldn't figure out what to add."

Jason Wolfkill

rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15915 More actions · Answer 12

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/14/2014)
In case any of you missed it and want to ensure a picture gets posted to The Thread... http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/114685/

If only to see Gail in wings and a halo! Finally got round to adding my donation.

Rodders...

Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 13

djj (8/14/2014)
ChrisM@Work (8/14/2014)
remember '76/'77
Wish I could remember what last year was like, I remember some nice days for '77 as I have a picture of me from a company picnic. 🙂

Good lord, I'm surrounded by fogies! I was 1 years old for most of '77.

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 14

Evil Kraig F (8/14/2014)
djj (8/14/2014)
ChrisM@Work (8/14/2014)
remember '76/'77
Wish I could remember what last year was like, I remember some nice days for '77 as I have a picture of me from a company picnic. 🙂
Good lord, I'm surrounded by fogies! I was 1 years old for most of '77.

I was 10.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 15

Ed Wagner (8/14/2014)
Evil Kraig F (8/14/2014)
djj (8/14/2014)
ChrisM@Work (8/14/2014)
remember '76/'77
Wish I could remember what last year was like, I remember some nice days for '77 as I have a picture of me from a company picnic. 🙂
Good lord, I'm surrounded by fogies! I was 1 years old for most of '77.
I was 10.

erm Are we talking about 1877?, 1977, or 2077?

By 2077 I will be 23:-D

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