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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 1

Apparently got over 15,000 points today. Yay. :w00t:

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BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 2

Koen Verbeeck (1/29/2016)
Apparently got over 15,000 points today. Yay. :w00t:

Not yet.

Have you been playing with DBCC TIMEWARP again?

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 3

BL0B_EATER (1/29/2016)
Have you guys during your careers ever thought about doing something else in life.. as opposed to IT / SQL Server / Coding etc etc?

For me IT is my "something else". I spent the first ten years of my "adult life" working as a chef. I grew tired of that as a career path because it is very demanding both physically and mentally. Also the work stability is non-existent in that field. Switched jobs every year or two and almost nobody in the food industry can avoid being fired at some point or other. In that industry it doesn't mean you did something worth of being fired, it is just a highly volatile environment.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 4

BrainDonor (1/29/2016)
Koen Verbeeck (1/29/2016)
Apparently got over 15,000 points today. Yay. :w00t:
Not yet.
Have you been playing with DBCC TIMEWARP again?

Yes. After 15,000 points you get access to the 345nd hidden parameter, which allows you to jump from 14,996 points to 15,003 in a matter of seconds.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 5

Koen Verbeeck (1/29/2016)
Apparently got over 15,000 points today. Yay. :w00t:

Congrats!

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Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23001 More actions · Answer 6

Sean Lange (1/29/2016)
BL0B_EATER (1/29/2016)
Have you guys during your careers ever thought about doing something else in life.. as opposed to IT / SQL Server / Coding etc etc?
For me IT is my "something else". I spent the first ten years of my "adult life" working as a chef. I grew tired of that as a career path because it is very demanding both physically and mentally. Also the work stability is non-existent in that field. Switched jobs every year or two and almost nobody in the food industry can avoid being fired at some point or other. In that industry it doesn't mean you did something worth of being fired, it is just a highly volatile environment.

I suppose that's true for me too. I've got into this late(ish) after essentially bouncing from job to job to pay the bills. I feel like I've got a career now. If this gig ended tomorrow I can say 'I work in BI, what jobs are out there' rather than 'what I am I going to do now?' As I said before though, I'd go into food like a shot but it would have to be for me, selling something I wanted to sell.

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 7

Koen Verbeeck (1/29/2016)
Apparently got over 15,000 points today. Yay. :w00t:

+15,000

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 8

Koen Verbeeck (1/29/2016)
Apparently got over 15,000 points today. Yay. :w00t:

What? In one day? Fingers on fire!

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BL0B_EATER (1/29/2016)
Have you guys during your careers ever thought about doing something else in life.. as opposed to IT / SQL Server / Coding etc etc?

Yes. Haven't found a way to make it financially viable, though some of that is my wife left high tech after 20 years to train horses. That's been her business for the last 5 years, so I put any plans I had on hold.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 10

BL0B_EATER (1/29/2016)
Have you guys during your careers ever thought about doing something else in life.. as opposed to IT / SQL Server / Coding etc etc?

Yeah, I'd love to teach history. The lack of a degree in that topic and a teachers certificate might be an issue though.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (1/28/2016)
Alan.B (1/28/2016)
What I hate about Azure SQL & Azure SQL Data Warehouse is the limitations, specifically the T-SQL limitations.
Which ones?
I ask because, for the Azure SQLDB side, most of the T-SQL limitations have gone away in the last few updates. DW still has plenty, but they're rooted in the distributed architecture and the earthed version of the Azure SQLDW has them too.

Yeah, I'm curious on this one too.

I think the biggest problem/advantage of Azure is just how fast it moves. So many people have knowledge that's two years, one year, or even six months, out of date and is wrong. To utterly misquote Dorothy, "Functionality comes and goes quickly around here"

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 12

Grant Fritchey (1/29/2016)
BL0B_EATER (1/29/2016)
Have you guys during your careers ever thought about doing something else in life.. as opposed to IT / SQL Server / Coding etc etc?
Yeah, I'd love to teach history. The lack of a degree in that topic and a teachers certificate might be an issue though.

+ you might scare the kids 😉

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 13

Koen Verbeeck (1/29/2016)
Grant Fritchey (1/29/2016)
BL0B_EATER (1/29/2016)
Have you guys during your careers ever thought about doing something else in life.. as opposed to IT / SQL Server / Coding etc etc?
Yeah, I'd love to teach history. The lack of a degree in that topic and a teachers certificate might be an issue though.
+ you might scare the kids 😉

Isn't that the whole point of history teachers?

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

BL0B_EATER (1/29/2016)
Have you guys during your careers ever thought about doing something else in life.. as opposed to IT / SQL Server / Coding etc etc?

A year ago I was seriously considering switching to astronautical engineering. Minor problem, no university in my country teaches it, and no one works in that field either. I could have moved to Europe, but with 4-5 years of university before any chance of an intern job, it wasn't really feasible.

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

Grant Fritchey (1/29/2016)
BL0B_EATER (1/29/2016)
Have you guys during your careers ever thought about doing something else in life.. as opposed to IT / SQL Server / Coding etc etc?
Yeah, I'd love to teach history. The lack of a degree in that topic and a teachers certificate might be an issue though.

A small private school might take you, but then again the $12k/yr salary might not work very well.

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