Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • How many people knew about this?

    I think it is absolutely AWESOME.

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  • Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    SQLRNNR (7/30/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    And on another subject...

    I HAVE GUMMY BEARS! (fear me)

    That can be taken multiple ways.

    Let's guess that means this instead of the surgical process.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLpNGp-IFIk

    edit: better link

    That is officially scary. @=)

    No. It's not officially scary. It is however pretty damned frightening.

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

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • Need more magic crystals.



    Alvin Ramard
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  • Alvin Ramard (7/30/2015)


    Need more magic crystals.

    I am writing code for an automagical solution to all coding problems.

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  • Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (7/30/2015)


    Need more magic crystals.

    I am writing code for an automagical solution to all coding problems.

    Try starting all procedures with:

    DROP DATABASE ...



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  • Alvin Ramard (7/30/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (7/30/2015)


    Need more magic crystals.

    I am writing code for an automagical solution to all coding problems.

    Try starting all procedures with:

    DROP DATABASE ...

    STOP STEALING MY COPYRIGHTED CODE! @=) :w00t:

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  • Can anyone help out here http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1706606.aspx? I'm not going to have the chance to write up complex queries til I get home next week, and the nagging is a tad annoying.

    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
  • Sure thing.

  • Grant Fritchey (7/30/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    As I dig into this issue (Execution Plans HO!), I come across a thread in which one respondent posts a link to Gail's blog and then Grant shows up to promote his execution plan book (by posting a link to the free PDF).

    Hee. You two get around.

    Just remember, read the second edition. The guy who wrote the first edition was an idiot. Soon, after the third edition comes out, the guy who wrote the second edition will become an idiot.

    Triplets?

  • Oops. Obviously need more coffee...

    Posted this to the wrong thread!

    So I am now wondering what a Gummy Bear surgical operation is...

    The youtube Gummy Video preview is, well bizarre!

    About the spaceport - new to me, did like the statement something like "approved by FAA who must have a hidden sense of humor"...

    So managed to work my way through my photos from the Friday of last weeks SQL Sat Manchester.

    Here are the picks so far;

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/127113040@N04/sets/72157656570136481

    Fought the lighting in a few. But hopefully conveys the fun of the Friday night.

    Just over 600 to go through now from the Saturday :O

    Gail - good luck with getting everything in and signed off, sounds a very convoluted way to end, seeing as you have done the hard part!

    Rodders...

    Edit - URL is now a URL!

  • Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    How many people knew about this?

    I think it is absolutely AWESOME.

    I actually thought Idaho was building that as a launch facility.

  • Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    Why oh why oh why do people insist on using WITH (NOLOCK) instead of doing things like setting transaction isolation levels or fixing indexes to resolve performance issues?

    Work thing. I've been trying to stamp out WITH (NOLOCK) use and now because things "aren't working" one group is trying to throw it back in.

    ARGH!

    Well, this is my battle for the week.

    EDIT: Seriously, can anyone give me a real reason why WITH (NOLOCK) might be functionally necessary for production code?

    Because it's magic.

    We have one piece of software, third party - *not* developed internally, where it's on just about everything. And when I say everything, including, I kid you not, in triggers - on the inserted table. I mean, just what the ...

    I'm a DBA.
    I'm not paid to solve problems. I'm paid to prevent them.

  • Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    And on another subject...

    I HAVE GUMMY BEARS! (fear me)

    But Brandie, were they *GIANT* Gummy Bears?

    http://giantgummybears.com/[/url]

    Ooo, a 26lb Gummy Bear with a bowl shaped tummy so you can have gummy bears in your gummy bear!

    Bearception!

  • Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    Why oh why oh why do people insist on using WITH (NOLOCK) instead of doing things like setting transaction isolation levels or fixing indexes to resolve performance issues?

    Work thing. I've been trying to stamp out WITH (NOLOCK) use and now because things "aren't working" one group is trying to throw it back in.

    ARGH!

    Well, this is my battle for the week.

    EDIT: Seriously, can anyone give me a real reason why WITH (NOLOCK) might be functionally necessary for production code?

    In our continuous integration server (TeamCity), one of the configurations installs our database. It then fires a "Validation Tool" that I wrote against the installed database and produces a report. One of the tests is to check for NOLOCK, if it is found then it fails the build and sets off the siren of shame[/url] and sends an e-mail to the person that caused the issue. I thoroughly recommend doing something similar for your own development environment.


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  • jasona.work (7/31/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (7/30/2015)


    And on another subject...

    I HAVE GUMMY BEARS! (fear me)

    But Brandie, were they *GIANT* Gummy Bears?

    http://giantgummybears.com/[/url]

    Ooo, a 26lb Gummy Bear with a bowl shaped tummy so you can have gummy bears in your gummy bear!

    Bearception!

    No, they were mini-gummy bears. But I LOVE the party gummy. That is awesome! (and somewhat scary from a blood sugar perspective).

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