April 1, 2016 at 9:27 am
Ed Wagner (4/1/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (4/1/2016)
Congrats, Steve.On the other hand... GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
MONTH FREAKING END.......................
It isn't the end. It's a whole new beginning. 😛
One thing broke.
The most important thing broke.
And now I get to deal with all the consequences.
April 1, 2016 at 9:31 am
Brandie Tarvin (4/1/2016)
Ed Wagner (4/1/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (4/1/2016)
Congrats, Steve.On the other hand... GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
MONTH FREAKING END.......................
It isn't the end. It's a whole new beginning. 😛
One thing broke.
The most important thing broke.
And now I get to deal with all the consequences.
Can't you simply use super glue?
April 1, 2016 at 9:39 am
Luis Cazares (4/1/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (4/1/2016)
Ed Wagner (4/1/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (4/1/2016)
Congrats, Steve.On the other hand... GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
MONTH FREAKING END.......................
It isn't the end. It's a whole new beginning. 😛
One thing broke.
The most important thing broke.
And now I get to deal with all the consequences.
Can't you simply use super glue?
Super glue doesn't help (it makes the hamsters pass out) and I'm out of duct tape.
April 1, 2016 at 9:42 am
Brandie Tarvin (4/1/2016)
Luis Cazares (4/1/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (4/1/2016)
Ed Wagner (4/1/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (4/1/2016)
Congrats, Steve.On the other hand... GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
MONTH FREAKING END.......................
It isn't the end. It's a whole new beginning. 😛
One thing broke.
The most important thing broke.
And now I get to deal with all the consequences.
Can't you simply use super glue?
Super glue doesn't help (it makes the hamsters pass out) and I'm out of duct tape.
Being out of duct tape is dangerous for sure but if you still have that roll of bailing wire you should be able to hold it together until Monday when the new camouflage duct tape shipment arrives.
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April 1, 2016 at 9:45 am
Brandie Tarvin (4/1/2016)
Super glue doesn't help (it makes the hamsters pass out) and I'm out of duct tape.
Use the Oh-En-Oh-Eff-Eff switch.
April 1, 2016 at 11:00 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/1/2016)
Use the Oh-En-Oh-Eff-Eff switch.
Its not the
Eff-En-Eff-En-Oh-En
switch?
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April 3, 2016 at 8:56 am
Usually my switch corrects most things, if you press it twice. No matter what the initial setting 😉
April 3, 2016 at 9:42 am
Just in case you may have missed it, there are no longer any excuses. for the many that we try to help and that refuse to help themselves. 🙂 I may include these in my signature...
At the end of March, 2016, Microsoft announced that the Developer's Edition is now FREE! Please see the following URL for details.
Based on a majority of questions on these fine forums here at SSC, you should also be made aware of the link for "Books Online" so that you can learn to help yourself (that's not directed at the folks on this thread that already know). 😉 Here's that link...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214(v=sql.120).aspx
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Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
April 3, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Jeff Moden (4/3/2016)
Just in case you may have missed it, there are no longer any excuses. for the many that we try to help and that refuse to help themselves. 🙂 I may include these in my signature...At the end of March, 2016, Microsoft announced that the Developer's Edition is now FREE! Please see the following URL for details.
Based on a majority of questions on these fine forums here at SSC, you should also be made aware of the link for "Books Online" so that you can learn to help yourself (that's not directed at the folks on this thread that already know). 😉 Here's that link...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214(v=sql.120).aspx
From my point of view this is uninteresting, for two or three reasons> It was already cheap enough to be treated as essential by anyone with any pretence at all to be interested in SQL Server (there were plenty of games that cost more, so when I hear someone I know has all the latest games complaining that SQL Server is too expensive to get hold of so as to learn about it I write them off anyway. Besides, those people don't even play with Espress edition, which would teach them a lot even though not as much as they could learn from using developer edition). And it was several years too late to be interesting - anyone who cared already had it. Will SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition be free from day 1, when it would actually encourage people to learn about the latest version early one? Or will we wait a couple of years before MS makes this up to date?
Maybe the above sounds a bit cynical, and could be interptreted as anti-microsoft. But really I think what MS has done is a good thing, a step in the right direction, although I dont think that they've done it early enough to have any useful effect - the only thing I'm cynical about is whether anyone who now (at this late date) decides to take it up because it's now free will actually use it to to learn anything or will just have it to be able to say in their resumé that they have SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition on their home machine.
Tom
April 3, 2016 at 1:10 pm
The cynicism is actually much appreciated and appropriate, IMHO. I especially like your comment about how some games cost as much or more.
The real fact of the matter is that Google has been out there for a very long time and internet searches have been around for a whole lot longer. It's amazing to me that many "gamers" will spend days playing on the computer and hours on end Googling for game answers and hints or spend hours a day on facebook, TWITter ;-), and a world of other nearly useless things but they won't spend any time learning the skills that can put food in the babies mouths and then have the nerve to get upset when you tell them to give it a try on their own.
As to your other question, 2016 Developer's Edition is supposed to be available as soon as RTM is available and, it too, is supposed to be free.
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April 3, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Jeff Moden (4/3/2016)
Just in case you may have missed it, there are no longer any excuses. for the many that we try to help and that refuse to help themselves. 🙂 I may include these in my signature...At the end of March, 2016, Microsoft announced that the Developer's Edition is now FREE! Please see the following URL for details.
Based on a majority of questions on these fine forums here at SSC, you should also be made aware of the link for "Books Online" so that you can learn to help yourself (that's not directed at the folks on this thread that already know). 😉 Here's that link...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214(v=sql.120).aspx
I think this is fantastic news. SQL Express has been around for a while, but to have the developer edition available for free is a big step forward and really good.
Tom, your point about people being willing to spend piles of cash on a game and unwilling to spend half as much on their futures is not cynical - it's real. Jeff, your same point about the investment of time is also very real. They're both sad, but they're also both true.
April 4, 2016 at 5:04 am
TomThomson (4/3/2016)
Jeff Moden (4/3/2016)
Just in case you may have missed it, there are no longer any excuses. for the many that we try to help and that refuse to help themselves. 🙂 I may include these in my signature...At the end of March, 2016, Microsoft announced that the Developer's Edition is now FREE! Please see the following URL for details.
Based on a majority of questions on these fine forums here at SSC, you should also be made aware of the link for "Books Online" so that you can learn to help yourself (that's not directed at the folks on this thread that already know). 😉 Here's that link...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214(v=sql.120).aspx
From my point of view this is uninteresting, for two or three reasons> It was already cheap enough to be treated as essential by anyone with any pretence at all to be interested in SQL Server (there were plenty of games that cost more, so when I hear someone I know has all the latest games complaining that SQL Server is too expensive to get hold of so as to learn about it I write them off anyway.
You just hit one of my buttons, Tom. I remember when I was learning SQL (SQL 2000) and I was literally so poor I couldn't afford the Dev edition let alone the computers to run it on. Fortunately I had someone who was interested in assisting me with my career move from retail to technology, so purchased the Dev edition for me along with a lot of books (on clearance at bookstores) and used boxes to set up on. I will always be grateful to this person for the assist and will always remember that there are a lot of people in my former position who wanted to learn something new but literally could not afford the items needed to do so.
So Free is good. I love that MS is making it free so that more people can make the career transition that I did.
April 4, 2016 at 5:08 am
So I didn't get out of work until after midnight on Friday thanks to the joys of month end. Finally someone found a switch that we could superglue into the "WORK DAMMIT" position (to which we promptly added lots of scotch tape, since we aren't getting new duct tape until today). Saturday was more catch up as many jobs were postponed for user verification of some files.
So sometime Saturday afternoon, I was able to take a nap, wake up for 3 hours to do non-work stuff, then fall over asleep for the night until Sunday morning.
Yay?
April 4, 2016 at 5:50 am
Brandie Tarvin (4/4/2016)
So I didn't get out of work until after midnight on Friday thanks to the joys of month end. Finally someone found a switch that we could superglue into the "WORK DAMMIT" position (to which we promptly added lots of scotch tape, since we aren't getting new duct tape until today). Saturday was more catch up as many jobs were postponed for user verification of some files.So sometime Saturday afternoon, I was able to take a nap, wake up for 3 hours to do non-work stuff, then fall over asleep for the night until Sunday morning.
Yay?
Sounds like you could benefit from spending the rest of the month automating everything. 😛 I know...month-end is not always simple and may uncover discrepancies that need to be investigated and resolved individually. I'm not trying to over-simplify things, but automate as much as possible. Your future month-end self will thank you for it while she's sleeping. After all, I hear month-end is scheduled to occur again in about a month. 😉
April 4, 2016 at 6:00 am
Ed Wagner (4/4/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (4/4/2016)
So I didn't get out of work until after midnight on Friday thanks to the joys of month end. Finally someone found a switch that we could superglue into the "WORK DAMMIT" position (to which we promptly added lots of scotch tape, since we aren't getting new duct tape until today). Saturday was more catch up as many jobs were postponed for user verification of some files.So sometime Saturday afternoon, I was able to take a nap, wake up for 3 hours to do non-work stuff, then fall over asleep for the night until Sunday morning.
Yay?
Sounds like you could benefit from spending the rest of the month automating everything. 😛 I know...month-end is not always simple and may uncover discrepancies that need to be investigated and resolved individually. I'm not trying to over-simplify things, but automate as much as possible. Your future month-end self will thank you for it while she's sleeping. After all, I hear month-end is scheduled to occur again in about a month. 😉
Oh, don't start. Please.
We're already automated. Automation doesn't stop failure.
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