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Gazareth (2/25/2015)
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Brandie Tarvin (2/25/2015)
Need some advice, all. I'm about to rewrite a novel of mine and I need references for research. My protagonist (the star) is humanoid but not human.I know there are science fiction books out there with such a theme, but I'm drawing blanks. The only things I can come up with are Alien Nation (which I've read and watched), Dune, and the Chronicles of Riddick. I'm assuming on the last two because I haven't actually read them. Couldn't get through the first chapter of Dune and have not tried Riddick yet.
Any thoughts or suggestions of what could meet my criteria?
Iain M Banks' Culture novels
Seconded. Even some of his non-Culture novels, particularly Against A Dark Background.
My personal favourite's Espedair Street, either as Iain or Iain M
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Ed Wagner (2/26/2015)
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... Mark one off, 2 days on the calendar to go. 2 days on the calendar to go, 2 days to go, ...And for the geeks out there:
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Heh... from the T-Shirt... "There are 10 types of people out there. Those that understand binary and those that don't". 😛
I always wanted to get a shirt made:
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BWFC (2/26/2015)
Ed Wagner (2/26/2015)
Jeff Moden (2/25/2015)
Lynn Pettis (2/25/2015)
... Mark one off, 2 days on the calendar to go. 2 days on the calendar to go, 2 days to go, ...And for the geeks out there:
... Mark one off, 10 days on the calendar to go. 10 days on the calendar to go, 10 days to go, ...
Heh... from the T-Shirt... "There are 10 types of people out there. Those that understand binary and those that don't". 😛
I always wanted to get a shirt made:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM dbo.Users
WHERE Clue > 0;
No rows returned.
Nice, thank you. My wish for it goes back to the early 1990s when I was working in Oracle. I don't know why I never got one made before, but it's good to know it now exists and I'm going to have to get one. Again, thank you.
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Ed Wagner (2/26/2015)
BWFC (2/26/2015)
Ed Wagner (2/26/2015)
Jeff Moden (2/25/2015)
Lynn Pettis (2/25/2015)
... Mark one off, 2 days on the calendar to go. 2 days on the calendar to go, 2 days to go, ...And for the geeks out there:
... Mark one off, 10 days on the calendar to go. 10 days on the calendar to go, 10 days to go, ...
Heh... from the T-Shirt... "There are 10 types of people out there. Those that understand binary and those that don't". 😛
I always wanted to get a shirt made:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM dbo.Users
WHERE Clue > 0;
No rows returned.
Nice, thank you. My wish for it goes back to the early 1990s when I was working in Oracle. I don't know why I never got one made before, but it's good to know it now exists and I'm going to have to get one. Again, thank you.
You're welcome. There's a couple of lads in the office whose entire wardrobe comes from there and as soon as you mentioned it I knew I'd seen one. Be careful though, it's very easy to spend a lot of money on there because there's so much cool\geeky stuff.
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Jeff Moden (2/25/2015)
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Jeff Moden (2/24/2015)
Just curious... does anyone use RedGate Compare to promote code from Dev to Staging to Prod? Looking for both positive and negative comments on experiences. Thanks folks.Jeff,
We have over 70 user databases where all objects have to be the same (the data is main difference)*. One day we found an issue where some objects hadn't been updated correctly, but the issue wasn't with every database. Instead of going through each database one-at-a-time, we ran SQL Compare on each using our 'template' database (no data, just all the objects that need to be on each database....kinda like model). SQL Compare let us fix the databases quicker than we could have done manually.
Would I use it again? Absolutely.
Would I recommend it to others? Absolutely.
I've even used SQL Data Compare and am happy with it also.
*this is in the health care world, so the data cannot be 'in one database'.
-SQLBill
That's a great use of RedGate Compare. I've done similar in the past.
But, my real question is about promoting code from Dev to Staging to Prod. Do you generally use RedGate Compare to promote code from one environment to another?
Sorry I didn't answer your real question. No we don't use it to promote code. Our developers provide the code to us in change requests and we run the code in the proper environment. One issue with just 'copying' from one environment to another is that the developers are already creating/testing new stuff while we are promoting something else, so using Compare to promote objects could possibly promote code that is still in development and not meant to be promoted.
-SQLBill
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Grant Fritchey (2/26/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/26/2015)
Jeff Moden (2/25/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/25/2015)
Need some advice, all. I'm about to rewrite a novel of mine and I need references for research. My protagonist (the star) is humanoid but not human.I know there are science fiction books out there with such a theme, but I'm drawing blanks. The only things I can come up with are Alien Nation (which I've read and watched), Dune, and the Chronicles of Riddick. I'm assuming on the last two because I haven't actually read them. Couldn't get through the first chapter of Dune and have not tried Riddick yet.
Any thoughts or suggestions of what could meet my criteria?
The "Alien" series of movies had a dandy couple of androids and you can't leave out the "newer" series from Battlestar Galactica where the many of the Cylons were very human-like, indeed.
Ah, yes, but I'm trying to avoid writing my novel like a movie. That way lies madness. Too many people think they can do prose like the movies and it never ends well. The novels become a mess. But thank you for the suggestion.
And thanks everyone for the book references and links. I'm adding them to my list of references for the project.
There was an Ace Special published in the 90s that was on this topic. I can't find my copy of it in the house for some reason and don't recall the title. The plot was using replicated humans for exploring planets. They'd be purpose built and thrown at the world after training. Funny thing in the book is that they recorded everything that happened to them and the training films were called "Oh Sh*ts" because that was frequently the last words on the video. It was very much in the style you're looking at.
If you ever find out the name of the book, I'd love to hear it.
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Jeff Moden (2/24/2015)
Just curious... does anyone use RedGate Compare to promote code from Dev to Staging to Prod? Looking for both positive and negative comments on experiences. Thanks folks.We use Data Compare all the time to get our Dev environment in synch with Production. We have used Compare for schema deploys, but rarely. Generally, when it comes to schema, our Dev and Production will always have a delta (by design!) and sometimes that delta is fairly large, so going through Compare and de-selecting all the objects you don't want to synch becomes a chore.
With that said, if you want your Dev schema trunk to stay tight with your Production trunk, then Compare would come in very handy, I think.
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Brandie Tarvin (2/25/2015)
Need some advice, all. I'm about to rewrite a novel of mine and I need references for research. My protagonist (the star) is humanoid but not human.I know there are science fiction books out there with such a theme, but I'm drawing blanks. The only things I can come up with are Alien Nation (which I've read and watched), Dune, and the Chronicles of Riddick. I'm assuming on the last two because I haven't actually read them. Couldn't get through the first chapter of Dune and have not tried Riddick yet.
Any thoughts or suggestions of what could meet my criteria?
How about Leguin's The Left Hand of Darkness? I thought the cultural conflicts were well-developed; plus the gender-morphing aspect is cool.
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BWFC (2/26/2015)
Ed Wagner (2/26/2015)
BWFC (2/26/2015)
Ed Wagner (2/26/2015)
Jeff Moden (2/25/2015)
Lynn Pettis (2/25/2015)
... Mark one off, 2 days on the calendar to go. 2 days on the calendar to go, 2 days to go, ...And for the geeks out there:
... Mark one off, 10 days on the calendar to go. 10 days on the calendar to go, 10 days to go, ...
Heh... from the T-Shirt... "There are 10 types of people out there. Those that understand binary and those that don't". 😛
I always wanted to get a shirt made:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM dbo.Users
WHERE Clue > 0;
No rows returned.
Nice, thank you. My wish for it goes back to the early 1990s when I was working in Oracle. I don't know why I never got one made before, but it's good to know it now exists and I'm going to have to get one. Again, thank you.
You're welcome. There's a couple of lads in the office whose entire wardrobe comes from there and as soon as you mentioned it I knew I'd seen one. Be careful though, it's very easy to spend a lot of money on there because there's so much cool\geeky stuff.
They have the shirts with the caffeine molecule, capsaicin molecule and several about SQL and other geeky stuff. They sure have grown since I saw them last, which was "a few" years ago. Yeah, I can see how I could blow through some serious money on this site.
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Sioban Krzywicki (2/26/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/26/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/26/2015)
Jeff Moden (2/25/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/25/2015)
Need some advice, all. I'm about to rewrite a novel of mine and I need references for research. My protagonist (the star) is humanoid but not human.I know there are science fiction books out there with such a theme, but I'm drawing blanks. The only things I can come up with are Alien Nation (which I've read and watched), Dune, and the Chronicles of Riddick. I'm assuming on the last two because I haven't actually read them. Couldn't get through the first chapter of Dune and have not tried Riddick yet.
Any thoughts or suggestions of what could meet my criteria?
The "Alien" series of movies had a dandy couple of androids and you can't leave out the "newer" series from Battlestar Galactica where the many of the Cylons were very human-like, indeed.
Ah, yes, but I'm trying to avoid writing my novel like a movie. That way lies madness. Too many people think they can do prose like the movies and it never ends well. The novels become a mess. But thank you for the suggestion.
And thanks everyone for the book references and links. I'm adding them to my list of references for the project.
There was an Ace Special published in the 90s that was on this topic. I can't find my copy of it in the house for some reason and don't recall the title. The plot was using replicated humans for exploring planets. They'd be purpose built and thrown at the world after training. Funny thing in the book is that they recorded everything that happened to them and the training films were called "Oh Sh*ts" because that was frequently the last words on the video. It was very much in the style you're looking at.
If you ever find out the name of the book, I'd love to hear it.
I found a list of the Ace Special books. Unless someone beats me to it, I'll find time to go through the list and see if I can find the book.
EDIT: Or Grant might recognize the name from the list....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Science_Fiction_Specials
-SQLBill
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SQLBill (2/26/2015)
Sioban Krzywicki (2/26/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/26/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/26/2015)
Jeff Moden (2/25/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/25/2015)
Need some advice, all. I'm about to rewrite a novel of mine and I need references for research. My protagonist (the star) is humanoid but not human.I know there are science fiction books out there with such a theme, but I'm drawing blanks. The only things I can come up with are Alien Nation (which I've read and watched), Dune, and the Chronicles of Riddick. I'm assuming on the last two because I haven't actually read them. Couldn't get through the first chapter of Dune and have not tried Riddick yet.
Any thoughts or suggestions of what could meet my criteria?
The "Alien" series of movies had a dandy couple of androids and you can't leave out the "newer" series from Battlestar Galactica where the many of the Cylons were very human-like, indeed.
Ah, yes, but I'm trying to avoid writing my novel like a movie. That way lies madness. Too many people think they can do prose like the movies and it never ends well. The novels become a mess. But thank you for the suggestion.
And thanks everyone for the book references and links. I'm adding them to my list of references for the project.
There was an Ace Special published in the 90s that was on this topic. I can't find my copy of it in the house for some reason and don't recall the title. The plot was using replicated humans for exploring planets. They'd be purpose built and thrown at the world after training. Funny thing in the book is that they recorded everything that happened to them and the training films were called "Oh Sh*ts" because that was frequently the last words on the video. It was very much in the style you're looking at.
If you ever find out the name of the book, I'd love to hear it.
I found a list of the Ace Special books. Unless someone beats me to it, I'll find time to go through the list and see if I can find the book.
EDIT: Or Grant might recognize the name from the list....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Science_Fiction_Specials
-SQLBill
Don't recognize any of them. Maybe I'm misremembering. Crud. That was a good read and now I want to find it again.
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Brandie Tarvin (2/25/2015)
Need some advice, all. I'm about to rewrite a novel of mine and I need references for research. My protagonist (the star) is humanoid but not human.I know there are science fiction books out there with such a theme, but I'm drawing blanks. The only things I can come up with are Alien Nation (which I've read and watched), Dune, and the Chronicles of Riddick. I'm assuming on the last two because I haven't actually read them. Couldn't get through the first chapter of Dune and have not tried Riddick yet.
Any thoughts or suggestions of what could meet my criteria?
How about Leguin's The Left Hand of Darkness? I thought the cultural conflicts were well-developed; plus the gender-morphing aspect is cool.
Ahh. Gender morphing is a distinct possibility in my world. After all, what does gender matter if you can download your mind into almost any body you please, right?
I will definately look this one up. Thanks.
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ChrisM@Work (2/26/2015) John Hurt - terrific and terrifying performance as dinky alien's first baby meal.
Check out John Hurt as Caligula in the series I, Claudius. That's where I became a fan. The series also has Derek Jacobi in the title role and Patrick Stewart as Sejanus (who you may have never heard of but won't forget). The production is British circa 1985 or so. Shown here on PBS's Masterpiece Theater. Although based on two novels by Robert Graves, the characters and incidents are historically accurate.
Fine stuff for those with an attention span that allows...
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Nuts. Just spent 20 minutes looking through the books. Wonder if I hallucinated this book.
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Speaking of funny shirts. Here is one that I just got in the mail. I know that Lynn will appreciate this one.
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