Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • jasona.work (9/21/2016)


    I have had a topic resurrected from the dead!!!

    I am now a member of that elite group of "dead topics revived!"

    Noticed the email alert that a reply had been posted, glanced and realized it was a 3 year old topic to which someone replied "thanks as it worked like a charm."

    :-D:hehe:

    Probably just stumbled on your reply. Most of the forum reads come some time after the threads have been posted and answered. Few people actually would post a "thanks" some time later.

  • jasona.work (9/21/2016)


    I have had a topic resurrected from the dead!!!

    I am now a member of that elite group of "dead topics revived!"

    Noticed the email alert that a reply had been posted, glanced and realized it was a 3 year old topic to which someone replied "thanks as it worked like a charm."

    :-D:hehe:

    It's a good thing that you were able to help. The OP seemed clueless and desperate. :hehe:

    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
  • Luis Cazares (9/21/2016)


    jasona.work (9/21/2016)


    I have had a topic resurrected from the dead!!!

    I am now a member of that elite group of "dead topics revived!"

    Noticed the email alert that a reply had been posted, glanced and realized it was a 3 year old topic to which someone replied "thanks as it worked like a charm."

    :-D:hehe:

    It's a good thing that you were able to help. The OP seemed clueless and desperate. :hehe:

    Yeah, he was a rather clueless fellow...

    😛

    I remember that time, too...

  • jasona.work (9/21/2016)


    So a book I'm currently reading (highly recommend, I've actually laughed out loud because of what I'm about to tell you) has possibly the BEST explanation for why computer software misbehaves...

    Typos!

    Someone was working to create a daemon and mis-spelled it as demon, and well...

    It also explains why a certain Redmond-based software company that shall not be named goes through QC staff so fast. At one time the "blue screen of death" really did mean "death."

    If you get the time, check it out:

    Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge

    by John Ringo and Larry Correia

    If you're enjoying that you might enjoy the Charles Stross 'Laundry Files' books. Advanced mathematics can open portals into other dimensions and with the huge computational power around these days it inevitably happens by accident.

  • BrainDonor (9/22/2016)


    jasona.work (9/21/2016)


    So a book I'm currently reading (highly recommend, I've actually laughed out loud because of what I'm about to tell you) has possibly the BEST explanation for why computer software misbehaves...

    Typos!

    Someone was working to create a daemon and mis-spelled it as demon, and well...

    It also explains why a certain Redmond-based software company that shall not be named goes through QC staff so fast. At one time the "blue screen of death" really did mean "death."

    If you get the time, check it out:

    Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge

    by John Ringo and Larry Correia

    If you're enjoying that you might enjoy the Charles Stross 'Laundry Files' books. Advanced mathematics can open portals into other dimensions and with the huge computational power around these days it inevitably happens by accident.

    Going back a few years, I rather enjoyed Rick Cook's "Wiz" series - a computer programmer arrives in a land where computers haven't been invented, but magic exists...

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

  • BrainDonor (9/22/2016)


    jasona.work (9/21/2016)


    So a book I'm currently reading (highly recommend, I've actually laughed out loud because of what I'm about to tell you) has possibly the BEST explanation for why computer software misbehaves...

    Typos!

    Someone was working to create a daemon and mis-spelled it as demon, and well...

    It also explains why a certain Redmond-based software company that shall not be named goes through QC staff so fast. At one time the "blue screen of death" really did mean "death."

    If you get the time, check it out:

    Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge

    by John Ringo and Larry Correia

    If you're enjoying that you might enjoy the Charles Stross 'Laundry Files' books. Advanced mathematics can open portals into other dimensions and with the huge computational power around these days it inevitably happens by accident.

    Yes, yes, yes!! The Laundry Files are awesome.

    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
  • BrainDonor (9/22/2016)


    jasona.work (9/21/2016)


    So a book I'm currently reading (highly recommend, I've actually laughed out loud because of what I'm about to tell you) has possibly the BEST explanation for why computer software misbehaves...

    Typos!

    Someone was working to create a daemon and mis-spelled it as demon, and well...

    It also explains why a certain Redmond-based software company that shall not be named goes through QC staff so fast. At one time the "blue screen of death" really did mean "death."

    If you get the time, check it out:

    Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge

    by John Ringo and Larry Correia

    If you're enjoying that you might enjoy the Charles Stross 'Laundry Files' books. Advanced mathematics can open portals into other dimensions and with the huge computational power around these days it inevitably happens by accident.

    Oh the horrors!

    Time to go to the bookstore to try to find this...

    Horror...

    Really...

    😀

  • jasona.work (9/22/2016)


    BrainDonor (9/22/2016)


    jasona.work (9/21/2016)


    So a book I'm currently reading (highly recommend, I've actually laughed out loud because of what I'm about to tell you) has possibly the BEST explanation for why computer software misbehaves...

    Typos!

    Someone was working to create a daemon and mis-spelled it as demon, and well...

    It also explains why a certain Redmond-based software company that shall not be named goes through QC staff so fast. At one time the "blue screen of death" really did mean "death."

    If you get the time, check it out:

    Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge

    by John Ringo and Larry Correia

    If you're enjoying that you might enjoy the Charles Stross 'Laundry Files' books. Advanced mathematics can open portals into other dimensions and with the huge computational power around these days it inevitably happens by accident.

    Oh the horrors!

    Time to go to the bookstore to try to find this...

    Horror...

    Really...

    😀

    The first one is called "The Atrocity Archives". Read them in order.

    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
  • jasona.work (9/21/2016)


    So a book I'm currently reading (highly recommend, I've actually laughed out loud because of what I'm about to tell you) has possibly the BEST explanation for why computer software misbehaves...

    Typos!

    Someone was working to create a daemon and mis-spelled it as demon, and well...

    It also explains why a certain Redmond-based software company that shall not be named goes through QC staff so fast. At one time the "blue screen of death" really did mean "death."

    If you get the time, check it out:

    Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge

    by John Ringo and Larry Correia

    MHI!

    I knew as soon as I saw daemon. I love those books. I also like Larry's Hard Magic books and his first fantasy novel is a great read. Really fun story teller. For those who have a thin skin where politics are concerned, stay away from Larry's blog.

    "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

  • Anyone in the mood for a quick code tidy-up?

    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

  • Phil Parkin (9/22/2016)


    Anyone in the mood for a quick code tidy-up?

    I saw that monstrosity and I'm not even going to try to parse it out...

    Sometimes I'll take messy queries like that (and it's not even a query, just a snippet from one!) and clean them up on my end to make it easier to read, but not this time...

  • Phil Parkin (9/22/2016)


    Anyone in the mood for a quick code tidy-up?

    Hell NO!!!:crazy:

    What kind of tool wrote that code?

    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
  • Luis Cazares (9/22/2016)


    Phil Parkin (9/22/2016)


    Anyone in the mood for a quick code tidy-up?

    Hell NO!!!:crazy:

    What kind of tool wrote that code?

    The OP that posted it????

  • Phil Parkin (9/22/2016)


    Anyone in the mood for a quick code tidy-up?

    ...and I thought code generated by Entity Framework was bad!


    SELECT quote FROM brain WHERE original = 1
    0 rows returned

  • Trying to figure out when I'm going to need to take a week or two off to avoid the angry mob that's coming...

    We're going to be taking away access for the customers to shares on the servers soon, which means several are going to need to re-work how they currently ETL in data from flat files. Currently, they have the ability to drop a file into a share on the SQL server where an Agent job with an SSIS package will slurp it in. Except for the ones that use BCP.

    Now, they'll probably have to get a network share elsewhere plus at least read privileges for the SSIS proxy...

    All this while also working on switching to SQL2014 on new servers...

    WHEE!

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