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Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86938 More actions · Answer 1

Luis Cazares (4/9/2015)
Original source of the picture in here: http://www.moef.dk/fishfingers/

I need to call my lawyer. They've violated my patent rights. :w00t:

That is awesome Luis!

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173033 More actions · Answer 2

dwain.c (4/10/2015)
Luis Cazares (4/9/2015)
Original source of the picture in here: http://www.moef.dk/fishfingers/
I need to call my lawyer. They've violated my patent rights. :w00t:
That is awesome Luis!

So is that what we're supposed to be using to write code? Because if it is, that explains a lot about my code. 😀

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

I love finding out that I'm giving a training course from the newsletter sent out the the entire company.

Gail Shaw
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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182901 More actions · Answer 4

GilaMonster (4/10/2015)
I love finding out that I'm giving a training course from the newsletter sent out the the entire company.

Especially when it's pushed forward to the day of the publication, had one of those not to far back and ended up using some of the problems posted here on SSCentral as the examples, in fact when I found out/read the newsletter, people were already waiting:-D

😎

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Eirikur Eiriksson (4/10/2015)
GilaMonster (4/10/2015)
I love finding out that I'm giving a training course from the newsletter sent out the the entire company.
Especially when it's pushed forward to the day of the publication, had one of those not to far back and ended up using some of the problems posted here on SSCentral as the examples, in fact when I found out/read the newsletter, people were already waiting:-D
😎

Fortunately this one is scheduled for an unspecified "Later this year". The problem is that I had said to the people involved that I didn't want to give the same training course again this year (I gave it twice last year, the second time to terrible attendance numbers), but that I wanted to give smaller, focused training sessions on topics which the developers wanted to know more about.

Gail Shaw
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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173033 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (4/10/2015)
I love finding out that I'm giving a training course from the newsletter sent out the the entire company.

Last month a coworker asked my boss's boss for information on free SQL training. She was asking for a friend of hers who doesn't even work at the company. But the boss misunderstood and told her that I did training on a monthly basis, so to tell me she wanted to attend one of my courses.

Monthly training was news to me. @=)

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95450 More actions · Answer 7

Brandie Tarvin (4/10/2015)
GilaMonster (4/10/2015)
I love finding out that I'm giving a training course from the newsletter sent out the the entire company.
Last month a coworker asked my boss's boss for information on free SQL training. She was asking for a friend of hers who doesn't even work at the company. But the boss misunderstood and told her that I did training on a monthly basis, so to tell me she wanted to attend one of my courses.
Monthly training was news to me. @=)

Just think of all the (billable) time that you can use to get ready for this monthly training. 😀 :w00t:

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

Luis Cazares (4/9/2015)
That's weird. The image is hosted in here.
Does anybody else have the same problem?
EDIT: Original source of the picture in here: http://www.moef.dk/fishfingers/

Several places have "big brother" that does not allow the viewing of code snippets or images from ssc (and other sites). I had that same problem in the past. It displays just fine once you get away from the vices of such things (e.g. websense).

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 9

GilaMonster (4/10/2015)
I love finding out that I'm giving a training course from the newsletter sent out the the entire company.

That is awesome.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

SQLRNNR (4/10/2015)
GilaMonster (4/10/2015)
I love finding out that I'm giving a training course from the newsletter sent out the the entire company.
That is awesome.

I could use a few other phrases at this point in time....

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50097 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (4/10/2015)
I love finding out that I'm giving a training course from the newsletter sent out the the entire company.

The ladies at my wifes employer not too long ago found out the company was hosting a seminar in the office, in two weeks, from the company website. The ladies are the ones who have to make all the arrangements (food, drinks, seating, parking, etc.) Even more fun, the woman who develops the website didn't put the announcement up on the website, because she didn't know about it either...

Then they end up with more people attending (because walk-ins were allowed) then the room could hold, resulting in aggravated attendees who couldn't attend. Resulting in a pair of managers...

Well, you can guess.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398815 More actions · Answer 12

Is everyone OK? Are people ill or something? Because this just happened and it has me concerned:

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173033 More actions · Answer 13

Grant Fritchey (4/10/2015)
Is everyone OK? Are people ill or something? Because this just happened and it has me concerned:

Not that I've ever been that high, but I'm putting out fires and trying to resolve SFTP in SSIS issues.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398815 More actions · Answer 14

Brandie Tarvin (4/10/2015)
Grant Fritchey (4/10/2015)
Is everyone OK? Are people ill or something? Because this just happened and it has me concerned:
Not that I've ever been that high, but I'm putting out fires and trying to resolve SFTP in SSIS issues.

Are you saying I'm on drugs?

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183700 More actions · Answer 15

Grant Fritchey (4/10/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (4/10/2015)
Grant Fritchey (4/10/2015)
Is everyone OK? Are people ill or something? Because this just happened and it has me concerned:
Not that I've ever been that high, but I'm putting out fires and trying to resolve SFTP in SSIS issues.
Are you saying I'm on drugs?

Was that supposed to be a secret? :w00t:

Luis C.
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Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2