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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 1

TomThomson (8/25/2014)
Evil Kraig F (8/25/2014)
TomThomson (8/22/2014)
Haven't noticed him recently on SQLServerCentral, though :cool:.
Oh, he's been around a while. He stopped at one point. I'd hoped they'd shut his account off.
*sigh* What died recently and resurrected the creature from the pit? I'm too busy to start up another verbal Carpet Bombing against him everywhere he goes. Someone else's turn.
I had a try today; he was advocating using a hash function to allocate unique tags, believe it or not, instead of dense_trank (which worked fine) as well as objecting to "record" and to duplicate rows. And doing it in a fairly unpleasant manner (albeit far from down to his frequent standard).
It was amusing to see the person he was biting join in and put him down - told him Lynn was helpful and he wasn't.

My compliments on hitting him with his non-standard quote convention. 😛

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rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15916 More actions · Answer 2

One of the PM's near me is having a meting at his desk. Explaining something to another person. They are almost replying with umhum with metronomic precision. It's gone past funny into grating very quickly. :w00t:

Rodders...

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 3

rodjkidd (8/27/2014)
One of the PM's near me is having a meting at his desk. Explaining something to another person. They are almost replying with umhum with metronomic precision. It's gone past funny into grating very quickly. :w00t:
Rodders...

...umhum...

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rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15916 More actions · Answer 4

jcrawf02 (8/27/2014)
rodjkidd (8/27/2014)
One of the PM's near me is having a meting at his desk. Explaining something to another person. They are almost replying with umhum with metronomic precision. It's gone past funny into grating very quickly. :w00t:
Rodders...
...umhum...

Arh that brought back memories and a shudder!

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 5

rodjkidd (8/27/2014)
jcrawf02 (8/27/2014)
rodjkidd (8/27/2014)
One of the PM's near me is having a meting at his desk. Explaining something to another person. They are almost replying with umhum with metronomic precision. It's gone past funny into grating very quickly. :w00t:
Rodders...
...umhum...
Arh that brought back memories and a shudder!

umhum... and why do you feel that way? Oops... times up. That'll be $100 please. Now, get off the couch! 😛

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 6

rodjkidd (8/27/2014)
One of the PM's near me is having a meting at his desk. Explaining something to another person. They are almost replying with umhum with metronomic precision. It's gone past funny into grating very quickly. :w00t:
Rodders...

5...4...3...2...1...Zero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 7

Jeff Moden (8/27/2014)
rodjkidd (8/27/2014)
jcrawf02 (8/27/2014)
rodjkidd (8/27/2014)
One of the PM's near me is having a meting at his desk. Explaining something to another person. They are almost replying with umhum with metronomic precision. It's gone past funny into grating very quickly. :w00t:
Rodders...
...umhum...
Arh that brought back memories and a shudder!
umhum... and why do you feel that way? Oops... times up. That'll be $100 please. Now, get off the couch! 😛

Guess in modern lingo that would be "get off the line/app/chat"

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

Eirikur Eiriksson (8/27/2014)
Jeff Moden (8/27/2014)
rodjkidd (8/27/2014)
jcrawf02 (8/27/2014)
rodjkidd (8/27/2014)
One of the PM's near me is having a meting at his desk. Explaining something to another person. They are almost replying with umhum with metronomic precision. It's gone past funny into grating very quickly. :w00t:
Rodders...
...umhum...
Arh that brought back memories and a shudder!
umhum... and why do you feel that way? Oops... times up. That'll be $100 please. Now, get off the couch! 😛
Guess in modern lingo that would be "get off the line/app/chat"
😎

or in this day and age, that would be concatenated to "get off the lap..."

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

Anyone else feel uncomfortable answering this question?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 10

Lynn Pettis (8/27/2014)
Anyone else feel uncomfortable answering this question?

Not at all. I'd give a range for my company, rather than specifics, but no reason not to get an idea of salary. I'd qualify it with experience.

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 11

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/27/2014)
Lynn Pettis (8/27/2014)
Anyone else feel uncomfortable answering this question?
Not at all. I'd give a range for my company, rather than specifics, but no reason not to get an idea of salary. I'd qualify it with experience.

Probably posted by someone who's either new or who's considering getting certified and wants concrete answers of how it'll impact their salary. The trouble is that there is no direct correlation that I know of, but I'm not MSCE certified. Certifiable? That's another discussion.

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 12

Ed Wagner (8/27/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/27/2014)
Lynn Pettis (8/27/2014)
Anyone else feel uncomfortable answering this question?
Not at all. I'd give a range for my company, rather than specifics, but no reason not to get an idea of salary. I'd qualify it with experience.
Probably posted by someone who's either new or who's considering getting certified and wants concrete answers of how it'll impact their salary. The trouble is that there is no direct correlation that I know of, but I'm not MSCE certified. Certifiable? That's another discussion.

Guess I am, not necessarily on SQL...:hehe:

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

Eirikur Eiriksson (8/27/2014)
Ed Wagner (8/27/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/27/2014)
Lynn Pettis (8/27/2014)
Anyone else feel uncomfortable answering this question?
Not at all. I'd give a range for my company, rather than specifics, but no reason not to get an idea of salary. I'd qualify it with experience.
Probably posted by someone who's either new or who's considering getting certified and wants concrete answers of how it'll impact their salary. The trouble is that there is no direct correlation that I know of, but I'm not MSCE certified. Certifiable? That's another discussion.
Guess I am, not necessarily on SQL...:hehe:
😎

Yeah...you got the point exactly as I meant it. 😉 There are times...

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 14

Does anyone have some funny sequence code to pitch in here?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 15

Oh look, one of my pet peeves. Email validators

Gail Shaw
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