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Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64790 More actions · Answer 1

I (or rather we) just returned home from a short but beatiful holiday in France. We stayed in a holiday home in Uzès, about an hours drive from Avignon, for ten days. We have visited Avignon a few times to soak in the Festival d'Avignon[/url] - a one-month festival where performing artist from almost all over the world come to Avignon and perform in the streets.

Since Uzès is about 300 km from Nice we were not affected by the terrorist attack over there. We did change our plans for Friday - we were planning one last visit to Avignon but after hearing that three days of national mourning were proclaimed we decided against it because we were unsure whether the festival would also be halted for those days. So we decided on a quiet day in preparation for a very early departure on Saturday.

By the way, do we know if any of the regulars here is based in France, and more specifically in or near Nice? I hope everyone's okay!

Hugo Kornelis, SQL Server/Data Platform MVP (2006-2016)
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004367 More actions · Answer 2

Hugo Kornelis (7/17/2016)
By the way, do we know if any of the regulars here is based in France, and more specifically in or near Nice? I hope everyone's okay!

+1000000 and agreed!

--Jeff Moden

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________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 3

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blink. blink.

SYSTEM TIME: 08:34:000

SYSTEM DATE: 2016-07-19

blink. blink.

I ... survived?

I SURVIVED!!!

The schedule:

Friday - work 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (45 minute lunch). Sleep (sort of) from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Saturday - work 11:30 p.m. (Friday) to 3:00 p.m. Sleep from 8:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.

Sunday - work (two brief attempts at naps, but they didn't work)

Monday - work until 2:10 p.m. Sleep (finally) at 6:00 p.m.

And the verdict? We are now on SQL 2012 with a few minor headaches but no show stoppers or "What the heck did you #*%#&%! do?" from our users.

All in all, a pretty decent (if exhausting and annoying) process.

Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 4

Congratulations Brandie! Now ask for vacations 😀

Luis C.
General Disclaimer:
Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 5

Brandie Tarvin (7/19/2016)
blink
blink. blink.
SYSTEM TIME: 08:34:000
SYSTEM DATE: 2016-07-19
blink. blink.
I ... survived?
I SURVIVED!!!
The schedule:
Friday - work 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (45 minute lunch). Sleep (sort of) from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Saturday - work 11:30 p.m. (Friday) to 3:00 p.m. Sleep from 8:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.
Sunday - work (two brief attempts at naps, but they didn't work)
Monday - work until 2:10 p.m. Sleep (finally) at 6:00 p.m.
And the verdict? We are now on SQL 2012 with a few minor headaches but no show stoppers or "What the heck did you #*%#&%! do?" from our users.
All in all, a pretty decent (if exhausting and annoying) process.

First, congrats on a successful migration! I know how much "fun" that can be...

Second, now to make Brandie want to hurt me... My migration to SQL2014 from SQL2008R2 has been on-going now for about 3 months, with no long hours. Heck, I haven't even gotten to the stage of turning the Devs loose on my shiny new SQLs yet (they're waiting for their shiny new Server 2012R2 IIS servers to be ready) On the other hand, I've *also* been waiting about 4-5 months for SSMS2014 to be approved for install, so...

Ask Lynn, he's probably had to put up with similar annoyances...

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 6

jasona.work (7/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (7/19/2016)
blink
blink. blink.
SYSTEM TIME: 08:34:000
SYSTEM DATE: 2016-07-19
blink. blink.
I ... survived?
I SURVIVED!!!
The schedule:
Friday - work 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (45 minute lunch). Sleep (sort of) from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Saturday - work 11:30 p.m. (Friday) to 3:00 p.m. Sleep from 8:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.
Sunday - work (two brief attempts at naps, but they didn't work)
Monday - work until 2:10 p.m. Sleep (finally) at 6:00 p.m.
And the verdict? We are now on SQL 2012 with a few minor headaches but no show stoppers or "What the heck did you #*%#&%! do?" from our users.
All in all, a pretty decent (if exhausting and annoying) process.
First, congrats on a successful migration! I know how much "fun" that can be...
Second, now to make Brandie want to hurt me... My migration to SQL2014 from SQL2008R2 has been on-going now for about 3 months, with no long hours. Heck, I haven't even gotten to the stage of turning the Devs loose on my shiny new SQLs yet (they're waiting for their shiny new Server 2012R2 IIS servers to be ready) On the other hand, I've *also* been waiting about 4-5 months for SSMS2014 to be approved for install, so...
Ask Lynn, he's probably had to put up with similar annoyances...

Actually, I don't want to hurt you. We've been working on 2k8 to 2012 for 1.5 years without long hours until this past week & 1/2. It's been on and off until the actual weekend of Go Live.

So freaking tired now. Vacation is needed, yes. But there are still little issues to fix before then. The things that fell through the cracks.

Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 7

Brandie Tarvin (7/19/2016)
jasona.work (7/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (7/19/2016)
blink
blink. blink.
SYSTEM TIME: 08:34:000
SYSTEM DATE: 2016-07-19
blink. blink.
I ... survived?
I SURVIVED!!!
The schedule:
Friday - work 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (45 minute lunch). Sleep (sort of) from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Saturday - work 11:30 p.m. (Friday) to 3:00 p.m. Sleep from 8:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.
Sunday - work (two brief attempts at naps, but they didn't work)
Monday - work until 2:10 p.m. Sleep (finally) at 6:00 p.m.
And the verdict? We are now on SQL 2012 with a few minor headaches but no show stoppers or "What the heck did you #*%#&%! do?" from our users.
All in all, a pretty decent (if exhausting and annoying) process.
First, congrats on a successful migration! I know how much "fun" that can be...
Second, now to make Brandie want to hurt me... My migration to SQL2014 from SQL2008R2 has been on-going now for about 3 months, with no long hours. Heck, I haven't even gotten to the stage of turning the Devs loose on my shiny new SQLs yet (they're waiting for their shiny new Server 2012R2 IIS servers to be ready) On the other hand, I've *also* been waiting about 4-5 months for SSMS2014 to be approved for install, so...
Ask Lynn, he's probably had to put up with similar annoyances...
Actually, I don't want to hurt you. We've been working on 2k8 to 2012 for 1.5 years without long hours until this past week & 1/2. It's been on and off until the actual weekend of Go Live.
So freaking tired now. Vacation is needed, yes. But there are still little issues to fix before then. The things that fell through the cracks.

Oh good!

😀

Yeah, the little things you forget about, or that are easily overlooked...

Like the whole PITA of setting the permissions for someone to access / use SSIS (seriously, you still have to muck around in dcomcnfg!) or that one Agent job that you thought was a system-generated job by the name, but wasn't...

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 8

You know, this was probably not a good comment, so I'm dumping it...

Instead, who's going to see Star Trek this weekend!

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 9

Not opening here until late August afaik.

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

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 10

Not a fan of Star Trek (and I guess my wife is grateful for that), so we're going to watch Ice Age instead.

Luis C.
General Disclaimer:
Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23002 More actions · Answer 11

It's SQL Saturday in Manchester for me, then a wedding on Sunday. We might drag ourselves to the flicks on Monday depending on how the Guinness flows at the wedding.

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

How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64790 More actions · Answer 12

BWFC (7/19/2016)
It's SQL Saturday in Manchester for me, then a wedding on Sunday. We might drag ourselves to the flicks on Monday depending on how the Guinness flows at the wedding.

Nice! I'll be there as well.

(At SQL Saturday Manchester, that is - no plans to crash your wedding party 😎 )

Hugo Kornelis, SQL Server/Data Platform MVP (2006-2016)
Visit my SQL Server blog: https://sqlserverfast.com/blog/
SQL Server Execution Plan Reference: https://sqlserverfast.com/epr/

Thomas Rushton SSC-Insane Points: 22649 More actions · Answer 13

jasona.work (7/19/2016)
You know, this was probably not a good comment, so I'm dumping it...
Instead, who's going to see Star Trek this weekend!

Not me - funeral-planning. No, wait. Planning sounds like some sort of forward-thinking. "Arranging" might be a better word.

I'm a few Star Trek films behind - give me a chance to catch up, and I'll probably end up getting the DVD. 🙂

Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

Thomas Rushton SSC-Insane Points: 22649 More actions · Answer 14

Brandie Tarvin (7/19/2016)
blink
blink. blink.
SYSTEM TIME: 08:34:000
SYSTEM DATE: 2016-07-19
blink. blink.
I ... survived?
I SURVIVED!!!

<voice=Brian_Blessed>Brandie's Alive!</voice>:-D

Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 15

jasona.work (7/19/2016)
You know, this was probably not a good comment, so I'm dumping it...
Instead, who's going to see Star Trek this weekend!

I'll see it, but probably not this weekend. Out of town speaking and enjoying a couple days with my wife. We did go see Ghostbusters last weekend and it was laugh out loud funny in places.

Star Trek is likely a couple weeks away for me.