March 22, 2016 at 8:57 am
Jacob Wilkins (3/22/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/22/2016)
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.
SPAM perhaps?
Or what is essentially the same thing, the replies were from Celko 🙂
I'd check to see who it says last posted, since that trail is still left.
Cheers!
Ever wonder why he keeps posting? Does he not see his posts being removed or is it a bad joke where he can see them but no one else does?
March 22, 2016 at 8:58 am
Jack Corbett (3/22/2016)
On personal note, my 17 year old daughter, is the NH State Champion for Poetry Out Loud[/url]. She gets a trip to Washington D.C. for the national competition in May. I'm not a big poetry fan, but she definitely has some talent reciting it. Don't know if she writes it yet.
Congrats.
My daughter writes a bit, so it's neat to see her stories.
March 22, 2016 at 9:02 am
yb751 (3/22/2016)
Jacob Wilkins (3/22/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/22/2016)
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.
SPAM perhaps?
Or what is essentially the same thing, the replies were from Celko 🙂
I'd check to see who it says last posted, since that trail is still left.
Cheers!
Ever wonder why he keeps posting? Does he not see his posts being removed or is it a bad joke where he can see them but no one else does?
Actually, that would be a pretty good joke :smooooth:
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
- Martin Rees
The absence of consumable DDL, sample data and desired results is, however, evidence of the absence of my response
- Phil Parkin
March 22, 2016 at 9:02 am
yb751 (3/22/2016)
Ever wonder why he keeps posting? Does he not see his posts being removed or is it a bad joke where he can see them but no one else does?
I was wondering the same thing when I saw a thread where he left the last post.
March 22, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Phil Parkin (3/22/2016)
yb751 (3/22/2016)
Jacob Wilkins (3/22/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/22/2016)
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.
SPAM perhaps?
Or what is essentially the same thing, the replies were from Celko 🙂
I'd check to see who it says last posted, since that trail is still left.
Cheers!
Ever wonder why he keeps posting? Does he not see his posts being removed or is it a bad joke where he can see them but no one else does?
Actually, that would be a pretty good joke :smooooth:
Yeah it would. Of course, everyone "ignoring" every single one of his posts would probably only serve to enrage him further, which would make him even more pedantic and off-the-hook. 😛 Kind of a catch 22 situation. I hope his blood pressure doesn't shoot up too high.
March 22, 2016 at 12:56 pm
Koen Verbeeck (3/22/2016)
In case you're wondering, I'm fine. I didn't have to be in Brussels today, so I avoided all of the commotion...
Glad you are fine mate, still trying to contact few mates over there, hopefully they are still on holiday
😎
March 22, 2016 at 12:57 pm
Jack Corbett (3/22/2016)
On personal note, my 17 year old daughter, is the NH State Champion for Poetry Out Loud[/url]. She gets a trip to Washington D.C. for the national competition in May. I'm not a big poetry fan, but she definitely has some talent reciting it. Don't know if she writes it yet.
When I was young various actors would give readings on variety shows. Quite entertaining at the time. Not sure it would be so now.
March 23, 2016 at 3:59 am
I might get slapped by asking this but what does it take to get an MVP award? ( just curious). To the people that hold one is it your presentation skills? Videos you make? Books you write?
March 23, 2016 at 4:24 am
GAH.
Late night release last night. The vendor copied and pasted SQL code from a Word doc into the T-SQL job step. Of course the single quotes are "smart quotes" so an important job upon which several other critical jobs rely failed last night after I went to bed.
So now I have to email the BUs and let them know their jobs / reports are going to be late because of a typo as well as kick of the job where it failed (after fixing it) and hope the world doesn't come to an end.
Not how I wanted to spend my morning.
March 23, 2016 at 4:37 am
BL0B_EATER (3/23/2016)
I might get slapped by asking this but what does it take to get an MVP award? ( just curious). To the people that hold one is it your presentation skills? Videos you make? Books you write?
There is no apparent magic formula. The best advice, do what MVPs do. For the Data Platform MVPs, we've been required to fill out our profile at Microsoft. You can see them here[/url]. Further, if you don't see yourself doing all that stuff naturally, then you don't want to be an MVP. It would suck.
The requirements seem to be changing. We haven't see evidence of it yet, but I suspect, except for a few superstars, people who only ever do SQL Server are on the way out. They changed the name to Data Platform for a reason. The focus seems to be more and more on interaction in forums, but interestingly enough, the forums that I was specifically told about were MSDN and StackExchange. I had to push this forum on to them.
The existing MVPs have a free ride through June renewal. After that, expect a bloody purge during the October renewal cycle.
"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
March 23, 2016 at 6:11 am
Brandie Tarvin (3/23/2016)
GAH.Late night release last night. The vendor copied and pasted SQL code from a Word doc into the T-SQL job step. Of course the single quotes are "smart quotes" so an important job upon which several other critical jobs rely failed last night after I went to bed.
So now I have to email the BUs and let them know their jobs / reports are going to be late because of a typo as well as kick of the job where it failed (after fixing it) and hope the world doesn't come to an end.
Not how I wanted to spend my morning.
Thankfully not that bad of a morning, but last night about 20 minutes before the end of the day, the power went out...
Around 10pm last night, the call went out: "...authorized telework if you have your computer with you should report as normal. This situation is expected to endure for several days." :ermm:
So, I'm sitting at home, VPN'ed in (although the network security folks *don't* allow SSMS through the tunnel, so I have to RDP into one of my boxes to run SSMS there) keeping an eye on things. Servers are on generators and never blinked, so there's that. Going to take advantage of my home lab today to figure out a couple ideas I've had to simplify things, setting up an SSRS report to show backup status of DBs, etc.
March 23, 2016 at 6:20 am
jasona.work (3/23/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (3/23/2016)
GAH.Late night release last night. The vendor copied and pasted SQL code from a Word doc into the T-SQL job step. Of course the single quotes are "smart quotes" so an important job upon which several other critical jobs rely failed last night after I went to bed.
So now I have to email the BUs and let them know their jobs / reports are going to be late because of a typo as well as kick of the job where it failed (after fixing it) and hope the world doesn't come to an end.
Not how I wanted to spend my morning.
Thankfully not that bad of a morning, but last night about 20 minutes before the end of the day, the power went out...
Around 10pm last night, the call went out: "...authorized telework if you have your computer with you should report as normal. This situation is expected to endure for several days." :ermm:
So, I'm sitting at home, VPN'ed in (although the network security folks *don't* allow SSMS through the tunnel, so I have to RDP into one of my boxes to run SSMS there) keeping an eye on things. Servers are on generators and never blinked, so there's that. Going to take advantage of my home lab today to figure out a couple ideas I've had to simplify things, setting up an SSRS report to show backup status of DBs, etc.
Sounds complicated (the RDP stuff). The SSRS report for backup statuses sounds like an interesting idea. I wonder if I should steal it from you and add a tab to our dashboard webpage... @=)
March 23, 2016 at 6:24 am
Brandie Tarvin (3/23/2016)
jasona.work (3/23/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (3/23/2016)
GAH.Late night release last night. The vendor copied and pasted SQL code from a Word doc into the T-SQL job step. Of course the single quotes are "smart quotes" so an important job upon which several other critical jobs rely failed last night after I went to bed.
So now I have to email the BUs and let them know their jobs / reports are going to be late because of a typo as well as kick of the job where it failed (after fixing it) and hope the world doesn't come to an end.
Not how I wanted to spend my morning.
Thankfully not that bad of a morning, but last night about 20 minutes before the end of the day, the power went out...
Around 10pm last night, the call went out: "...authorized telework if you have your computer with you should report as normal. This situation is expected to endure for several days." :ermm:
So, I'm sitting at home, VPN'ed in (although the network security folks *don't* allow SSMS through the tunnel, so I have to RDP into one of my boxes to run SSMS there) keeping an eye on things. Servers are on generators and never blinked, so there's that. Going to take advantage of my home lab today to figure out a couple ideas I've had to simplify things, setting up an SSRS report to show backup status of DBs, etc.
Sounds complicated (the RDP stuff). The SSRS report for backup statuses sounds like an interesting idea. I wonder if I should steal it from you and add a tab to our dashboard webpage... @=)
Not so much complicated, as annoying as the connection times out and disconnects after 2 minutes...
March 23, 2016 at 6:57 am
:w00t::w00t::w00t:
OK, admittedly I followed a MSDN SSRS report creation walk-through, but I've already got a working backup report going! Now to fire up a second VM, and try getting a datasource to talk to that one, so I could whip this up to cover all my servers in one go...
Brandie, if you'd like, I can fire you the RDL file, there's two versions of the report, one that just shows the last date of a backup (Full / Diff / TLog) and one that includes the time as well (handy for TLogs.) It does exclude DBs with "TEMP" in the name, but it doesn't filter out system DBs...
March 23, 2016 at 9:16 am
BL0B_EATER (3/23/2016)
I might get slapped by asking this but what does it take to get an MVP award? ( just curious). To the people that hold one is it your presentation skills? Videos you make? Books you write?
What Grant said, but really it's participate in the community, in a magical way that satisfies the current MS criteria (unknown), enough to beat out the others doing similar things.
From what I've understood, there is a budget for MVPs, for each technology. Each quarter, 1/4 of the budget is spent on new/renewed MVPs. The list is ranked and the top xx are awarded. The quarter you are in depends on when you are (were) nominated for the award. I'm Jan 1. Not sure when Grant is.
It's a combination of influence, which can be more technical (Itzik Ben Gan) or more community focused (me). Somehow this is ranked and ordered, with a cutoff line based on budget.
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