Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

GilaMonster (10/21/2016)
I haven't even started packing yet and I already have flight delays. 🙁

And further flight delays, and delays upon the delays.

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

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rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15916 More actions · Answer 2

The SQL Bits mug has completed the Liverpool - Birmingham - Norwich - Reading - Heathrow - JFK NYC - Seattle legs of its journey...

Now the most important leg - getting it to Gail! 🙂

Rodders...

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

rodjkidd (10/22/2016)
Now the most important leg - getting it to Gail! 🙂

The rate I'm going, that might be the hard part...

Flight was originally scheduled to depart at 19h20 Saturday. It's now 01h20 Sunday, and I'm still at the airport.

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

rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15916 More actions · Answer 4

GilaMonster (10/22/2016)
rodjkidd (10/22/2016)
Now the most important leg - getting it to Gail! 🙂
The rate I'm going, that might be the hard part...
Flight was originally scheduled to depart at 19h20 Saturday. It's now 01h20 Sunday, and I'm still at the airport.

Yuck.

Good luck

Rodders...

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 5

Man, the spam is getting worse. The other morning, 41 out of 50 posts were spam. This morning is almost as bad. Most of it is URL-only. Seems like a simple trick to prevent it. Even a trigger could handle it easily.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
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Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 6

Jeff Moden (10/23/2016)
Man, the spam is getting worse. The other morning, 41 out of 50 posts were spam. This morning is almost as bad. Most of it is URL-only. Seems like a simple trick to prevent it. Even a trigger could handle it easily.

Yes, it's definitely getting worse. They're adapting and there seems to be a lot more of it, especially this weekend.

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Beatrix Kiddo SSC-Dedicated Points: 32407 More actions · Answer 7

Now, who'd like to be the first to open the unknown .rar file on this thread http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1828619-2799-1.aspx 🙂 ?

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 8

Beatrix Kiddo (10/24/2016)
Now, who'd like to be the first to open the unknown .rar file on this thread http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1828619-2799-1.aspx 🙂 ?

It is not a valid SQL Server Backup file

😎

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 9

Ed Wagner (10/24/2016)
Jeff Moden (10/23/2016)
Man, the spam is getting worse. The other morning, 41 out of 50 posts were spam. This morning is almost as bad. Most of it is URL-only. Seems like a simple trick to prevent it. Even a trigger could handle it easily.
Yes, it's definitely getting worse. They're adapting and there seems to be a lot more of it, especially this weekend.

I gave him a post, but I won't open it. No way, no how.

Tally Tables - Performance Personified
String Splitting with True Performance
Best practices on how to ask questions

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 10

Ed Wagner (10/24/2016)
Ed Wagner (10/24/2016)
Jeff Moden (10/23/2016)
Man, the spam is getting worse. The other morning, 41 out of 50 posts were spam. This morning is almost as bad. Most of it is URL-only. Seems like a simple trick to prevent it. Even a trigger could handle it easily.
Yes, it's definitely getting worse. They're adapting and there seems to be a lot more of it, especially this weekend.
I gave him a post, but I won't open it. No way, no how.

I tend to be paranoid about even the people who post their query plans (especially in Word docs!)

Of course, I'm also usually on while I'm on my work computer, and I really, really, really don't want to get on the wrong side of a security scan...

Beatrix Kiddo SSC-Dedicated Points: 32407 More actions · Answer 11

Yep, me too. I can just imagine explaining that action in my exit interview.

BLOB EATER SSChampion Points: 14609 More actions · Answer 12

jasona.work (10/24/2016)
Ed Wagner (10/24/2016)
Ed Wagner (10/24/2016)
Jeff Moden (10/23/2016)
Man, the spam is getting worse. The other morning, 41 out of 50 posts were spam. This morning is almost as bad. Most of it is URL-only. Seems like a simple trick to prevent it. Even a trigger could handle it easily.
Yes, it's definitely getting worse. They're adapting and there seems to be a lot more of it, especially this weekend.
I gave him a post, but I won't open it. No way, no how.
I tend to be paranoid about even the people who post their query plans (especially in Word docs!)
Of course, I'm also usually on while I'm on my work computer, and I really, really, really don't want to get on the wrong side of a security scan...

Its happened where I work, 10 minutes later they were escorted out

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

BLOB_EATER (10/24/2016)
jasona.work (10/24/2016)
Ed Wagner (10/24/2016)
Ed Wagner (10/24/2016)
Jeff Moden (10/23/2016)
Man, the spam is getting worse. The other morning, 41 out of 50 posts were spam. This morning is almost as bad. Most of it is URL-only. Seems like a simple trick to prevent it. Even a trigger could handle it easily.
Yes, it's definitely getting worse. They're adapting and there seems to be a lot more of it, especially this weekend.
I gave him a post, but I won't open it. No way, no how.
I tend to be paranoid about even the people who post their query plans (especially in Word docs!)
Of course, I'm also usually on while I'm on my work computer, and I really, really, really don't want to get on the wrong side of a security scan...
Its happened where I work, 10 minutes later they were escorted out

Worst that has happened to me is I went to a website (something like f1 sql server?) for something. A few hours later, the security team was at my side saying "we need to take your machine off the network". "Why?" "Because the web filters prevented some dodgy download". "erm..."

So. Because something had been dealt with at the edge of our network (where it shoudl have been dealt with), they still had to take down my machine. "How long is it going to take you to fix this?" I asked; "five days." "OK, just flatten my machine and I'll rebuild - that'll save me three days..."

Yeah. So many things wrong in that place.

Thomas Rushton
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