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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 1

jcrawf02 (6/8/2009)
Florian Reischl (6/8/2009)
tosscrosby (6/8/2009)
Florian Reischl (6/8/2009)
Oups!
A typo in my "Smurf"...
I didn't know if you call him "Daddy" or "Papa". Just thought "Daddy" is more common in US.
Thanks Jeff!
Only in the form of a question, as in "who's your daddy?"
Thanks for explanation! I really didn't know.
That's not right, Toss! Funny, but not right. . .
Florian, don't go asking anybody "who's your daddy?", especially if they're female. It's a colloquialism that infers sexual overtones.

So THAT's why I keep getting slapped. 😛 Something else I just learned... I always though "harass" was two words! Imagine my surprise... :hehe:

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 2

Jeff Moden (6/8/2009)
So THAT's why I keep getting slapped. 😛 Something else I just learned... I always though "harass" was two words! Imagine my surprise... :hehe:

2 words and one of them is not "his", but it's yours that get's in trouble. Right?

😀

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Allister Reid SSCrazy Points: 2666 More actions · Answer 3

Anyone want to help out here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic731030-338-1.aspx#bm731057 I'm in wrong time zone to be any more help 🙁

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 4

Hey Barry... how many more articles do you have planned for your "15 ways to lose your cursor" series, and when would the next one be publishing? It's been too long now...

Wayne
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 5

Back from SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola, what did I mess?

RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 6

WayneS (6/8/2009)
Hey Barry... how many more articles do you have planned for your "15 ways to lose your cursor" series, and when would the next one be publishing? It's been too long now...

I'm still trying to catch-up at work. I was out sick for almost 4 weeks and as a consultant, when I am out, no one does my work for me... 🙁

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D.Oc SSCrazy Points: 2875 More actions · Answer 7

I've just read that Rajeev Motwani died last friday 🙁

Rajeev Motwani was a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he also served as the director of graduate studies. His research interests included: databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, robotics, and theoretical computer science. While at Stanford, he was the founder of the Mining Data at Stanford project, also known as MIDAS.
Motwani was well-known for his mentoring of Google co-founders Larry Paige and Sergey Brin.
He was a co-author of the book, Randomized Algorithms, published by Cambridge University Press. Motwani received the Arthur P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and an IBM Faculty Award.
Motwani studied computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and completed his doctorate at UC-Berkeley.

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 8

Steve Jones - Editor (6/8/2009)
Back from SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola, what did I mess?

Now there's a loaded question . . .

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How best to post your question[/url]
How to post performance problems[/url]
Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 9

I'm gonna be offline most, if not all of this week. Taking a vacation and for part of the time, I'll be somewhere with no cell coverage or broadband. I'm sure there will be at least 100 posts for me catch up with by the time I get back.:-D

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tosscrosby SSCoach Points: 18045 More actions · Answer 10

Jack Corbett (6/9/2009)
I'm sure there will be at least 100 posts for me catch up with by the time I get back.:-D

That'll be just today's postings! :w00t:

-- You can't be late until you show up.

GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 11

Steve Jones - Editor (6/8/2009)
Back from SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola, what did I mess?

Okay, Steve. Normally I back you up when you have typos in articles and someone calls you on it. But that's just too good to pass up! LOL 🙂

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 12

GSquared (6/9/2009)
Steve Jones - Editor (6/8/2009)
Back from SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola, what did I mess?
Okay, Steve. Normally I back you up when you have typos in articles and someone calls you on it. But that's just too good to pass up! LOL 🙂

So the typo was the word what, right? It should have been where?

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 13

Okay, I must be in pissy mood today and I have NO idea why. I just lmgtfy twice in the same thread...

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 14

Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)
Okay, I must be in pissy mood today and I have NO idea why. I just lmgtfy twice in the same thread...

I don't think that's a sign of a pissy mood.

I think it needed to be done.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 15

LOL, how did I typo that? Keys are on different sides of the keyboard, different hands, I must have been tired.

The majority of my thread notifications were from this thread last night, and I posted as I was falling asleep, apparently.

Glad it's only 10 of you that will likely see that one :w00t: