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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 1

Grant Fritchey (1/20/2016)
Sitting in a meeting at Redgate talking about plans for SQL Server Central. THE THREAD has come up as a topic. We are currently a 65mb thread. It evidently looks like "an exponentially growing log file."
All I can say is...
WELL DONE!
Keep it up. Good job everyone.

We have loads to do still then. Goal is 65GB.

And you can BELIEVE THAT!

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

Ed Wagner (1/20/2016)
Tell me The Thread's award is not that it's going to be killed off. I've come to enjoy it. It's a lot like a pressure release valve that releases pressure slowly to prevent explosions. I know I don't want to explode. 😉

Well, if it is killed off there are multiple resolutions for that:

a. It will just come back next season (yes the plot thickens)

b. It is already sentient and has made backups of itself

c. It has spawned children threads (that will become sentient upon the death of the thread)

d. Nothing on the internet ever really goes away does it?

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182911 More actions · Answer 3

Grant Fritchey (1/20/2016)
Sitting in a meeting at Redgate talking about plans for SQL Server Central. THE THREAD has come up as a topic. We are currently a 65mb thread. It evidently looks like "an exponentially growing log file."
All I can say is...
WELL DONE!
Keep it up. Good job everyone.

At 1.273 Kb a post that is not very efficient, you should hire a proper performance and optimization consultants:-D

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 4

SQLRNNR (1/20/2016)
Ed Wagner (1/20/2016)
Tell me The Thread's award is not that it's going to be killed off. I've come to enjoy it. It's a lot like a pressure release valve that releases pressure slowly to prevent explosions. I know I don't want to explode. 😉
Well, if it is killed off there are multiple resolutions for that:
a. It will just come back next season (yes the plot thickens)
b. It is already sentient and has made backups of itself
c. It has spawned children threads (that will become sentient upon the death of the thread)
d. Nothing on the internet ever really goes away does it?

In the case of B, I wonder if The Thread can do it's own restore of itself. In option C, do you think they've thought ahead and have backed up the parent so they can do a restore if the parent is killed?

BTW, those are really good. 😛

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Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246960 More actions · Answer 5

Eirikur Eiriksson (1/20/2016)
Grant Fritchey (1/20/2016)
Sitting in a meeting at Redgate talking about plans for SQL Server Central. THE THREAD has come up as a topic. We are currently a 65mb thread. It evidently looks like "an exponentially growing log file."
All I can say is...
WELL DONE!
Keep it up. Good job everyone.
At 1.273 Kb a post that is not very efficient, you should hire a proper performance and optimization consultants:-D
😎

65 milli-bits is actually extremely small and sits somewhere in the realms of quantum storage.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 6

Phil Parkin (1/20/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (1/20/2016)
Grant Fritchey (1/20/2016)
Sitting in a meeting at Redgate talking about plans for SQL Server Central. THE THREAD has come up as a topic. We are currently a 65mb thread. It evidently looks like "an exponentially growing log file."
All I can say is...
WELL DONE!
Keep it up. Good job everyone.
At 1.273 Kb a post that is not very efficient, you should hire a proper performance and optimization consultants:-D
😎
65 milli-bits is actually extremely small and sits somewhere in the realms of quantum storage.

It would be very interesting to know the compression algorithm used to achieve that size. No wonder there are occasional slowness problems.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 7

Ed Wagner (1/20/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/20/2016)
This is, potentially, the longest thread on the Internet. I'm not sure I've seen anything continue this long, for this length. We were, by far, the largest user of this forum software, and larger than any other .NET forums I've seen.
And yet, the site still works. Sure, it has the quote bug and a glitch or slowdown from time to time, but just look at it. I'd say it's a job well done.
Tell me The Thread's award is not that it's going to be killed off. I've come to enjoy it. It's a lot like a pressure release valve that releases pressure slowly to prevent explosions. I know I don't want to explode. 😉
Look at all the cool things to come out of The Thread. There's the Pork Chop Launcher (plus variants), DBCC TIMEWARP and the Hippo Guarding the Tent in the Dessert.

Cool things? I wonder how many other threads keep referring to crystal balls and silver spoons? 😎

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182911 More actions · Answer 8

Alvin Ramard (1/20/2016)
Ed Wagner (1/20/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/20/2016)
This is, potentially, the longest thread on the Internet. I'm not sure I've seen anything continue this long, for this length. We were, by far, the largest user of this forum software, and larger than any other .NET forums I've seen.
And yet, the site still works. Sure, it has the quote bug and a glitch or slowdown from time to time, but just look at it. I'd say it's a job well done.
Tell me The Thread's award is not that it's going to be killed off. I've come to enjoy it. It's a lot like a pressure release valve that releases pressure slowly to prevent explosions. I know I don't want to explode. 😉
Look at all the cool things to come out of The Thread. There's the Pork Chop Launcher (plus variants), DBCC TIMEWARP and the Hippo Guarding the Tent in the Dessert.
Cool things? I wonder how many other threads keep referring to crystal balls and silver spoons? 😎

DBCC COUNT_SPOONS

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173061 More actions · Answer 9

Eirikur Eiriksson (1/20/2016)
Alvin Ramard (1/20/2016)
Ed Wagner (1/20/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/20/2016)
This is, potentially, the longest thread on the Internet. I'm not sure I've seen anything continue this long, for this length. We were, by far, the largest user of this forum software, and larger than any other .NET forums I've seen.
And yet, the site still works. Sure, it has the quote bug and a glitch or slowdown from time to time, but just look at it. I'd say it's a job well done.
Tell me The Thread's award is not that it's going to be killed off. I've come to enjoy it. It's a lot like a pressure release valve that releases pressure slowly to prevent explosions. I know I don't want to explode. 😉
Look at all the cool things to come out of The Thread. There's the Pork Chop Launcher (plus variants), DBCC TIMEWARP and the Hippo Guarding the Tent in the Dessert.
Cool things? I wonder how many other threads keep referring to crystal balls and silver spoons? 😎
DBCC COUNT_SPOONS
😎

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 10

Brandie Tarvin (1/20/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (1/20/2016)
Alvin Ramard (1/20/2016)
Ed Wagner (1/20/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/20/2016)
This is, potentially, the longest thread on the Internet. I'm not sure I've seen anything continue this long, for this length. We were, by far, the largest user of this forum software, and larger than any other .NET forums I've seen.
And yet, the site still works. Sure, it has the quote bug and a glitch or slowdown from time to time, but just look at it. I'd say it's a job well done.
Tell me The Thread's award is not that it's going to be killed off. I've come to enjoy it. It's a lot like a pressure release valve that releases pressure slowly to prevent explosions. I know I don't want to explode. 😉
Look at all the cool things to come out of The Thread. There's the Pork Chop Launcher (plus variants), DBCC TIMEWARP and the Hippo Guarding the Tent in the Dessert.
Cool things? I wonder how many other threads keep referring to crystal balls and silver spoons? 😎
DBCC COUNT_SPOONS
😎
Officially added to our list.

Does that mean there should also be a DBCC COUNT_BALLS?

Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 11

Eirikur Eiriksson (1/20/2016)
Alvin Ramard (1/20/2016)
Ed Wagner (1/20/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/20/2016)
This is, potentially, the longest thread on the Internet. I'm not sure I've seen anything continue this long, for this length. We were, by far, the largest user of this forum software, and larger than any other .NET forums I've seen.
And yet, the site still works. Sure, it has the quote bug and a glitch or slowdown from time to time, but just look at it. I'd say it's a job well done.
Tell me The Thread's award is not that it's going to be killed off. I've come to enjoy it. It's a lot like a pressure release valve that releases pressure slowly to prevent explosions. I know I don't want to explode. 😉
Look at all the cool things to come out of The Thread. There's the Pork Chop Launcher (plus variants), DBCC TIMEWARP and the Hippo Guarding the Tent in the Dessert.
Cool things? I wonder how many other threads keep referring to crystal balls and silver spoons? 😎
DBCC COUNT_SPOONS
😎

DBCC COUNT_SPOONS returns a 0 on my system.

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djj SSCoach Points: 18831 More actions · Answer 12

I missed if anyone ever found the crystal ball?

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 13

Eirikur Eiriksson (1/20/2016)
Alvin Ramard (1/20/2016)
Ed Wagner (1/20/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/20/2016)
This is, potentially, the longest thread on the Internet. I'm not sure I've seen anything continue this long, for this length. We were, by far, the largest user of this forum software, and larger than any other .NET forums I've seen.
And yet, the site still works. Sure, it has the quote bug and a glitch or slowdown from time to time, but just look at it. I'd say it's a job well done.
Tell me The Thread's award is not that it's going to be killed off. I've come to enjoy it. It's a lot like a pressure release valve that releases pressure slowly to prevent explosions. I know I don't want to explode. 😉
Look at all the cool things to come out of The Thread. There's the Pork Chop Launcher (plus variants), DBCC TIMEWARP and the Hippo Guarding the Tent in the Dessert.
Cool things? I wonder how many other threads keep referring to crystal balls and silver spoons? 😎
DBCC COUNT_SPOONS
😎

Returns 0, no matter when it's run or with what parameters.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 14

djj (1/20/2016)
I missed if anyone ever found the crystal ball?

It's in a quantum state. At best, sufficient need can collapse its waveform temporarily and cause a sudden burst of clarity, but it will always go back to unknown location, unknown momentum after a short 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

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 15

Grant Fritchey (1/20/2016)
Sitting in a meeting at Redgate talking about plans for SQL Server Central. THE THREAD has come up as a topic. We are currently a 65mb thread. It evidently looks like "an exponentially growing log file."
All I can say is...
WELL DONE!
Keep it up. Good job everyone.

So when is the company sending us Threadizen t-shirts?:-P

Jack Corbett
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