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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

BL0B_EATER (7/14/2015)
GilaMonster (7/13/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (7/13/2015)
GilaMonster (7/13/2015)
Yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!
Congratulations. You have complied with the requirements prescribed for your degree, and are cordially invited to the graduation ceremony
YAY!
What is the degree in?
M.Sc (Computer Science)
Dissertation was on AI.
Congrats! I did NLP & AI and really struggled with it! (still found it interesting though). What was your area of focus for your dissertation?

Using Genetic Algorithms as a planning component for autonomous agents, specifically the BDI architecture.

Now that the marking's complete I should be allowed to put the dissertation up on my blog. Will just have to check with my supervisor, but should be fine.

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

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

BLOB EATER SSChampion Points: 14609 More actions · Answer 2

GilaMonster (7/14/2015)
BL0B_EATER (7/14/2015)
GilaMonster (7/13/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (7/13/2015)
GilaMonster (7/13/2015)
Yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!
Congratulations. You have complied with the requirements prescribed for your degree, and are cordially invited to the graduation ceremony
YAY!
What is the degree in?
M.Sc (Computer Science)
Dissertation was on AI.
Congrats! I did NLP & AI and really struggled with it! (still found it interesting though). What was your area of focus for your dissertation?
Using Genetic Algorithms as a planning component for autonomous agents, specifically the BDI architecture.
Now that the marking's complete I should be allowed to put the dissertation up on my blog. Will just have to check with my supervisor, but should be fine.

Sounds good.. look forward to it.

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

BL0B_EATER (7/14/2015)
GilaMonster (7/14/2015)
BL0B_EATER (7/14/2015)
GilaMonster (7/13/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (7/13/2015)
GilaMonster (7/13/2015)
Yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!
Congratulations. You have complied with the requirements prescribed for your degree, and are cordially invited to the graduation ceremony
YAY!
What is the degree in?
M.Sc (Computer Science)
Dissertation was on AI.
Congrats! I did NLP & AI and really struggled with it! (still found it interesting though). What was your area of focus for your dissertation?
Using Genetic Algorithms as a planning component for autonomous agents, specifically the BDI architecture.
Now that the marking's complete I should be allowed to put the dissertation up on my blog. Will just have to check with my supervisor, but should be fine.
Sounds good.. look forward to it.

It's a 160-page document, written in the formal academic style. Not sure it's something to look forward to reading.

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

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/13/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (7/11/2015)
Kind of irked this morning. Found out this morning that the SQL Saturday call for speakers in Orlando closed after only a week.
Usually the call for speakers is open for a lot longer than that, and I had month end and server install stuff to do, so I hadn't gotten around to submitting my sessions yet.
Oh, well. I guess I'm not submitting at all.
Hmm, what email? Orlando has been open for awhile. Been on my list.

I got a call for speakers on Friday July 3rd and then the email reminder that the speakers call was closing on July 10th.

Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 5

TomThomson (7/13/2015)
Lynn Pettis (7/13/2015)
OMG! How does Silver Spoon keep his job? Member of ssc for over 10 years and can't seem to do the simplest tasks without running to the internet.
He can't even follow simple advice. If he had just added the ( Wayne suggested in his first reply he would have been home. Instead he moved a function call unnecessarily and deleted a required ) to arrive at a piece of utter nonsense that had equal counts of ( and ). Then he couldn't understand the perfectly sound error messages he got, and also failed to interpret Gail's several messages anything like sensibly; and then decided he couldn't copy from inside a code tag-pair (nor presmably scroll so that he could read and type) even though he could quote the message with the code in so he could see it not framed in a code box in the text provided for his quoted reply.
I can't imagine how he retains a job, if it has anything to do with using SQL Server.
At first I though he was just inexperienced and would learn, but after some time I realised that he not only hadn't a clue about SQL but seemed to be making no attempt to learn and apparently couldn't understand simple English, so I gave up any thought of trying to help him since I was unsure of my ability to avoid being thoroughly nasty (I'd have been tempted to sugest that he couldn't find part of his anatomy even is allowed to use both hands) if I had to deal with that sort of idiocy. I'm afraid I don't have the patience often displayed by you and by Gail.

Whenever an easy enough problem is posted up, there's an endless supply of idiots waiting in the wings to reply. If ssc didn't have the likes of Lynn and Gail and others with their extraordinary patience to step in quick and deal with Silver Spoon, this would be a very different place. As it is, you can see a change in attitude over time of the most saintly of responders (that's generally, Lynn). Personally I don't think it's a bad thing so long as it's restrained and professional. If you're too nice to "Takers" they will continue to take.

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 6

ChrisM@Work (7/14/2015)
TomThomson (7/13/2015)
Lynn Pettis (7/13/2015)
OMG! How does Silver Spoon keep his job? Member of ssc for over 10 years and can't seem to do the simplest tasks without running to the internet.
He can't even follow simple advice. If he had just added the ( Wayne suggested in his first reply he would have been home. Instead he moved a function call unnecessarily and deleted a required ) to arrive at a piece of utter nonsense that had equal counts of ( and ). Then he couldn't understand the perfectly sound error messages he got, and also failed to interpret Gail's several messages anything like sensibly; and then decided he couldn't copy from inside a code tag-pair (nor presmably scroll so that he could read and type) even though he could quote the message with the code in so he could see it not framed in a code box in the text provided for his quoted reply.
I can't imagine how he retains a job, if it has anything to do with using SQL Server.
At first I though he was just inexperienced and would learn, but after some time I realised that he not only hadn't a clue about SQL but seemed to be making no attempt to learn and apparently couldn't understand simple English, so I gave up any thought of trying to help him since I was unsure of my ability to avoid being thoroughly nasty (I'd have been tempted to sugest that he couldn't find part of his anatomy even is allowed to use both hands) if I had to deal with that sort of idiocy. I'm afraid I don't have the patience often displayed by you and by Gail.
Whenever an easy enough problem is posted up, there's an endless supply of idiots waiting in the wings to reply. If ssc didn't have the likes of Lynn and Gail and others with their extraordinary patience to step in quick and deal with Silver Spoon, this would be a very different place. As it is, you can see a change in attitude over time of the most saintly of responders (that's generally, Lynn). Personally I don't think it's a bad thing so long as it's restrained and professional. If you're too nice to "Takers" they will continue to take.

Good thing you can't see behind the curtain!! :w00t:

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 7

I know that an OP posted a question with the following error:

Cannot create a row of size 8071 which is greater than the allowable maximum row size of 8060. The statement has been terminated.

There was a suggestion offered that helped them and it wasn't rebuilding the clustered index. I can't seem to find the thread and we are getting this error in HOA (Horn of Africa, not Home Owners Association).

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 8

Lynn Pettis (7/14/2015)
I know that an OP posted a question with the following error:
Cannot create a row of size 8071 which is greater than the allowable maximum row size of 8060. The statement has been terminated.
There was a suggestion offered that helped them and it wasn't rebuilding the clustered index. I can't seem to find the thread and we are getting this error in HOA (Horn of Africa, not Home Owners Association).

Change some of the VAR/FIXED-Sized columns to VARXXX(MAX)

😎

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 9

Brandie Tarvin (7/14/2015)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/13/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (7/11/2015)
Kind of irked this morning. Found out this morning that the SQL Saturday call for speakers in Orlando closed after only a week.
Usually the call for speakers is open for a lot longer than that, and I had month end and server install stuff to do, so I hadn't gotten around to submitting my sessions yet.
Oh, well. I guess I'm not submitting at all.
Hmm, what email? Orlando has been open for awhile. Been on my list.
I got a call for speakers on Friday July 3rd and then the email reminder that the speakers call was closing on July 10th.

I received the original call for speakers for Orlando on 4/29.

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 10

Lynn Pettis (7/13/2015)
OMG! How does Silver Spoon keep his job? Member of ssc for over 10 years and can't seem to do the simplest tasks without running to the internet.

What's the link for this thread, Lynn?

--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.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 11

Lynn Pettis (7/14/2015)
I know that an OP posted a question with the following error:
Cannot create a row of size 8071 which is greater than the allowable maximum row size of 8060. The statement has been terminated.
There was a suggestion offered that helped them and it wasn't rebuilding the clustered index. I can't seem to find the thread and we are getting this error in HOA (Horn of Africa, not Home Owners Association).

Is the database in the Snapshot transaction isolation level?

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 12

Jeff Moden (7/14/2015)
Lynn Pettis (7/13/2015)
OMG! How does Silver Spoon keep his job? Member of ssc for over 10 years and can't seem to do the simplest tasks without running to the internet.
What's the link for this thread, Lynn?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1702273-3077-1.aspx

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden (7/14/2015)
Lynn Pettis (7/13/2015)
OMG! How does Silver Spoon keep his job? Member of ssc for over 10 years and can't seem to do the simplest tasks without running to the internet.
What's the link for this thread, Lynn?

Don't have it handy, but you just need to look for the dog avatar. I think he is smarter than Silver Spoon.

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 14

Jeff Moden (7/14/2015)
Lynn Pettis (7/13/2015)
OMG! How does Silver Spoon keep his job? Member of ssc for over 10 years and can't seem to do the simplest tasks without running to the internet.
What's the link for this thread, Lynn?

Found it on the first page of the Recent Posts:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1702273-3077-1.aspx

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 15

Lynn Pettis (7/14/2015)
I know that an OP posted a question with the following error:
Cannot create a row of size 8071 which is greater than the allowable maximum row size of 8060. The statement has been terminated.
There was a suggestion offered that helped them and it wasn't rebuilding the clustered index. I can't seem to find the thread and we are getting this error in HOA (Horn of Africa, not Home Owners Association).

Is this the thread?

Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.