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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 1

Eirikur Eiriksson (3/21/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (3/21/2016)
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Now, that's a great idea. I'm not sure if I should get the workstation or pay rent and buy food. I guess I can keep working the way I've been doing it until today. 😀

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173080 More actions · Answer 2

Luis Cazares (3/21/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (3/21/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (3/21/2016)
For those of you with standing desks, ArsTechnica says it may not be helping[/url] you at all.
Here is an alternative[/url]
😎
Now, that's a great idea. I'm not sure if I should get the workstation or pay rent and buy food. I guess I can keep working the way I've been doing it until today. 😀

Bah. Rent and food are overrated.

Wait. It's almost lunchtime... Maybe it's only rent that's overrated.

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 3

Alan.B (3/21/2016)
Quick question: I got the standard email saying that someone replied to a comment on one of the forum threads but when I go to that thread the comment is not there. I commented last at like 11:50PMish... then I have two emails saying they replied at 2:09AM and 2:30AM but when I check the thread my comment is the last one.
Just weird, something I have not seen before.

I've seen this and it is usually a post by someone who has been "banned". They still get to post but it gets removed.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 4

Okay, my daughter and I are in Providence, RI. We were scheduled to do campus visit at Johnson & Wales University this morning but they called yesterday to cancel that tour and rescheduled it to tomorrow due to the snow they were expecting last night and this morning. We laughed at this this morning as what they got wouldn't even have delayed school back home.

But here we are not knowing what to do today. Any suggestions?

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173080 More actions · Answer 5

Lynn Pettis (3/21/2016)
Okay, my daughter and I are in Providence, RI. We were scheduled to do campus visit at Johnson & Wales University this morning but they called yesterday to cancel that tour and rescheduled it to tomorrow due to the snow they were expecting last night and this morning. We laughed at this this morning as what they got wouldn't even have delayed school back home.
But here we are not knowing what to do today. Any suggestions?

Does Providence have a zoo? You might also check to see if Hasbro does daily tours.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 6

Lynn Pettis (3/21/2016)
Okay, my daughter and I are in Providence, RI. We were scheduled to do campus visit at Johnson & Wales University this morning but they called yesterday to cancel that tour and rescheduled it to tomorrow due to the snow they were expecting last night and this morning. We laughed at this this morning as what they got wouldn't even have delayed school back home.
But here we are not knowing what to do today. Any suggestions?

Drive down and look at the mansions in Newport. It's pretty near by. If you're walking, check out all the Lovecraft locations in Providence. I'm sure there are maps online for the location of many of the houses that were the basis for some parts of some stories.

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Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 7

Jack Corbett (3/21/2016)
Alan.B (3/21/2016)
Quick question: I got the standard email saying that someone replied to a comment on one of the forum threads but when I go to that thread the comment is not there. I commented last at like 11:50PMish... then I have two emails saying they replied at 2:09AM and 2:30AM but when I check the thread my comment is the last one.
Just weird, something I have not seen before.
I've seen this and it is usually a post by someone who has been "banned". They still get to post but it gets removed.

Haha. Thanks - that makes sense - I've seen that before.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

Brandie Tarvin (3/21/2016)
Lynn Pettis (3/21/2016)
Okay, my daughter and I are in Providence, RI. We were scheduled to do campus visit at Johnson & Wales University this morning but they called yesterday to cancel that tour and rescheduled it to tomorrow due to the snow they were expecting last night and this morning. We laughed at this this morning as what they got wouldn't even have delayed school back home.
But here we are not knowing what to do today. Any suggestions?
Does Providence have a zoo? You might also check to see if Hasbro does daily tours.

Nah the zoo would be closed to due to the mass quantities of snow.:-D

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

Looks like we are going to drive to West Point NY to see one her long lost friends.

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

SQLRNNR (3/21/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (3/21/2016)
Lynn Pettis (3/21/2016)
Okay, my daughter and I are in Providence, RI. We were scheduled to do campus visit at Johnson & Wales University this morning but they called yesterday to cancel that tour and rescheduled it to tomorrow due to the snow they were expecting last night and this morning. We laughed at this this morning as what they got wouldn't even have delayed school back home.
But here we are not knowing what to do today. Any suggestions?
Does Providence have a zoo? You might also check to see if Hasbro does daily tours.
Nah the zoo would be closed to due to the mass quantities of snow.:-D

lol, like really! 😛

Y.B. SSChampion Points: 11649 More actions · Answer 11

SQLRNNR (3/21/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (3/21/2016)
Lynn Pettis (3/21/2016)
Okay, my daughter and I are in Providence, RI. We were scheduled to do campus visit at Johnson & Wales University this morning but they called yesterday to cancel that tour and rescheduled it to tomorrow due to the snow they were expecting last night and this morning. We laughed at this this morning as what they got wouldn't even have delayed school back home.
But here we are not knowing what to do today. Any suggestions?
Does Providence have a zoo? You might also check to see if Hasbro does daily tours.
Nah the zoo would be closed to due to the mass quantities of snow.:-D

Having lived in Northern Ontario I always found it humorous hearing about closures/cancellations for so little snow. The reality is though there is a huge spike in accidents in areas that are not used to dealing with snow. That being said I would have thought Rhode Island has seen it's share of the white stuff.

If you know what a block heater is than you have definitely learned how to drive in snow. 😉

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Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 12

Any CLR savvy people want to take a look at this? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1766573-3412-1.aspx

Solomon Perhaps?

"I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001

Solomon Rutzky SSCoach Points: 16430 More actions · Answer 13

Alan.B (3/21/2016)
Any CLR savvy people want to take a look at this? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1766573-3412-1.aspx
Solomon Perhaps?

I added a couple of replies. Thanks for mentioning it :-).

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Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 14

yb751 (3/21/2016)
SQLRNNR (3/21/2016)
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Lynn Pettis (3/21/2016)
Okay, my daughter and I are in Providence, RI. We were scheduled to do campus visit at Johnson & Wales University this morning but they called yesterday to cancel that tour and rescheduled it to tomorrow due to the snow they were expecting last night and this morning. We laughed at this this morning as what they got wouldn't even have delayed school back home.
But here we are not knowing what to do today. Any suggestions?
Does Providence have a zoo? You might also check to see if Hasbro does daily tours.
Nah the zoo would be closed to due to the mass quantities of snow.:-D
Having lived in Northern Ontario I always found it humorous hearing about closures/cancellations for so little snow. The reality is though there is a huge spike in accidents in areas that are not used to dealing with snow. That being said I would have thought Rhode Island has seen it's share of the white stuff.
If you know what a block heater is than you have definitely learned how to drive in snow. 😉

... or if you have driven around with a few bags of kitty litter in your trunk.

I've grown up in Chicago and we generally don't cancel stuff due to snow unless there is so much that your door won't open.

"I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 15

Alan.B (3/21/2016)
yb751 (3/21/2016)
SQLRNNR (3/21/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (3/21/2016)
Lynn Pettis (3/21/2016)
Okay, my daughter and I are in Providence, RI. We were scheduled to do campus visit at Johnson & Wales University this morning but they called yesterday to cancel that tour and rescheduled it to tomorrow due to the snow they were expecting last night and this morning. We laughed at this this morning as what they got wouldn't even have delayed school back home.
But here we are not knowing what to do today. Any suggestions?
Does Providence have a zoo? You might also check to see if Hasbro does daily tours.
Nah the zoo would be closed to due to the mass quantities of snow.:-D
Having lived in Northern Ontario I always found it humorous hearing about closures/cancellations for so little snow. The reality is though there is a huge spike in accidents in areas that are not used to dealing with snow. That being said I would have thought Rhode Island has seen it's share of the white stuff.
If you know what a block heater is than you have definitely learned how to drive in snow. 😉
... or if you have driven around with a few bags of kitty litter in your trunk.
I've grown up in Chicago and we generally don't cancel stuff due to snow unless there is so much that your door won't open.

It used to be that way in Michigan as well, but nowadays everyone seems like they're petrified of any amount snow. The sensationalizing by the news certainly doesn't help.

It isn't like Rhode Island is near Atlanta or anything. When we drove down to Florida a few weeks ago, the freeways through Atlanta were fine. But it was near freezing, so they had trucks out putting brine down on the road and a police blockage behind them slowing everybody down. Granted, most people in Atlanta don't know how to drive in snow, but this wasn't necessary to begin with because there was no snow.

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