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HanShi SSC-Dedicated Points: 33507 More actions · Answer 1

BLOB_EATER (10/26/2016)
Lynn Pettis (10/25/2016)
Spammers are getting better, now even the topics they post look legit.
I liked Eric's response - "get a job you bum".

The problem is that they probably respond back with: "this is my job because I'm making good money!". Like told since the beginning of SPAM: if nobody would click, they wouldn't make money and it would stop very soon...

** Don't mistake the ‘stupidity of the crowd’ for the ‘wisdom of the group’! **

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246963 More actions · Answer 2

HanShi (10/26/2016)
BLOB_EATER (10/26/2016)
Lynn Pettis (10/25/2016)
Spammers are getting better, now even the topics they post look legit.
I liked Eric's response - "get a job you bum".
The problem is that they probably respond back with: "this is my job because I'm making good money!". Like told since the beginning of SPAM: if nobody would click, they wouldn't make money and it would stop very soon...

I would have thought that the click rate from members of this forum would be extremely low.

Maybe Steve can tell us which of our members have decided to follow the link, perhaps with the dream of obtaining a cheap kitchen or younger looking skin, so that we can apply some friendly peer pressure :w00t:

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

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 3

Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
HanShi (10/26/2016)
BLOB_EATER (10/26/2016)
Lynn Pettis (10/25/2016)
Spammers are getting better, now even the topics they post look legit.
I liked Eric's response - "get a job you bum".
The problem is that they probably respond back with: "this is my job because I'm making good money!". Like told since the beginning of SPAM: if nobody would click, they wouldn't make money and it would stop very soon...
I would have thought that the click rate from members of this forum would be extremely low.
Maybe Steve can tell us which of our members have decided to follow the link, perhaps with the dream of obtaining a cheap kitchen or younger looking skin, so that we can apply some friendly peer pressure :w00t:

Wait, you mean it was a mistake to go to the kitchen site to request a quote?

I thought it was kind of odd they asked for a credit card #, drivers license #, mothers' maiden name, first pets name, and (once I put in my address) my Social Security number, but I figured it was just for record-keeping purposes...

Was that not correct?

:hehe:

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 4

jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
HanShi (10/26/2016)
BLOB_EATER (10/26/2016)
Lynn Pettis (10/25/2016)
Spammers are getting better, now even the topics they post look legit.
I liked Eric's response - "get a job you bum".
The problem is that they probably respond back with: "this is my job because I'm making good money!". Like told since the beginning of SPAM: if nobody would click, they wouldn't make money and it would stop very soon...
I would have thought that the click rate from members of this forum would be extremely low.
Maybe Steve can tell us which of our members have decided to follow the link, perhaps with the dream of obtaining a cheap kitchen or younger looking skin, so that we can apply some friendly peer pressure :w00t:
Wait, you mean it was a mistake to go to the kitchen site to request a quote?
I thought it was kind of odd they asked for a credit card #, drivers license #, mothers' maiden name, first pets name, and (once I put in my address) my Social Security number, but I figured it was just for record-keeping purposes...
Was that not correct?
:hehe:

Wait. Did you get a different link then I did? When I clicked on the kitchen sink link it took me to a page that told me my cats were trapped in Nigeria and I needed to send them money to get out of the country.

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 5

Brandie Tarvin (10/26/2016)
jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
HanShi (10/26/2016)
BLOB_EATER (10/26/2016)
Lynn Pettis (10/25/2016)
Spammers are getting better, now even the topics they post look legit.
I liked Eric's response - "get a job you bum".
The problem is that they probably respond back with: "this is my job because I'm making good money!". Like told since the beginning of SPAM: if nobody would click, they wouldn't make money and it would stop very soon...
I would have thought that the click rate from members of this forum would be extremely low.
Maybe Steve can tell us which of our members have decided to follow the link, perhaps with the dream of obtaining a cheap kitchen or younger looking skin, so that we can apply some friendly peer pressure :w00t:
Wait, you mean it was a mistake to go to the kitchen site to request a quote?
I thought it was kind of odd they asked for a credit card #, drivers license #, mothers' maiden name, first pets name, and (once I put in my address) my Social Security number, but I figured it was just for record-keeping purposes...
Was that not correct?
:hehe:
Wait. Did you get a different link then I did? When I clicked on the kitchen sink link it took me to a page that told me my cats were trapped in Nigeria and I needed to send them money to get out of the country.

No, I think that was the one for the mega-muscle-nuke-pro stuff, I didn't bother filling anything in there because all 4 of my pets were in the room with me.

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23001 More actions · Answer 6

jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (10/26/2016)
jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
HanShi (10/26/2016)
BLOB_EATER (10/26/2016)
Lynn Pettis (10/25/2016)
Spammers are getting better, now even the topics they post look legit.
I liked Eric's response - "get a job you bum".
The problem is that they probably respond back with: "this is my job because I'm making good money!". Like told since the beginning of SPAM: if nobody would click, they wouldn't make money and it would stop very soon...
I would have thought that the click rate from members of this forum would be extremely low.
Maybe Steve can tell us which of our members have decided to follow the link, perhaps with the dream of obtaining a cheap kitchen or younger looking skin, so that we can apply some friendly peer pressure :w00t:
Wait, you mean it was a mistake to go to the kitchen site to request a quote?
I thought it was kind of odd they asked for a credit card #, drivers license #, mothers' maiden name, first pets name, and (once I put in my address) my Social Security number, but I figured it was just for record-keeping purposes...
Was that not correct?
:hehe:
Wait. Did you get a different link then I did? When I clicked on the kitchen sink link it took me to a page that told me my cats were trapped in Nigeria and I needed to send them money to get out of the country.
No, I think that was the one for the mega-muscle-nuke-pro stuff, I didn't bother filling anything in there because all 4 of my pets were in the room with me.

We've just had a box of amino-acid bodybuilding stuff turn up from Amazon with no name on it. Could this be the next step in the evolution of the spammers?

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

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246963 More actions · Answer 7

BWFC (10/26/2016)
jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (10/26/2016)
jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
HanShi (10/26/2016)
BLOB_EATER (10/26/2016)
Lynn Pettis (10/25/2016)
Spammers are getting better, now even the topics they post look legit.
I liked Eric's response - "get a job you bum".
The problem is that they probably respond back with: "this is my job because I'm making good money!". Like told since the beginning of SPAM: if nobody would click, they wouldn't make money and it would stop very soon...
I would have thought that the click rate from members of this forum would be extremely low.
Maybe Steve can tell us which of our members have decided to follow the link, perhaps with the dream of obtaining a cheap kitchen or younger looking skin, so that we can apply some friendly peer pressure :w00t:
Wait, you mean it was a mistake to go to the kitchen site to request a quote?
I thought it was kind of odd they asked for a credit card #, drivers license #, mothers' maiden name, first pets name, and (once I put in my address) my Social Security number, but I figured it was just for record-keeping purposes...
Was that not correct?
:hehe:
Wait. Did you get a different link then I did? When I clicked on the kitchen sink link it took me to a page that told me my cats were trapped in Nigeria and I needed to send them money to get out of the country.
No, I think that was the one for the mega-muscle-nuke-pro stuff, I didn't bother filling anything in there because all 4 of my pets were in the room with me.
We've just had a box of amino-acid bodybuilding stuff turn up from Amazon with no name on it. Could this be the next step in the evolution of the spammers?

Keep quiet, enjoy your unsolicited breakfast and watch those muscles grow. It really works. Thousands of satisfied customers.

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

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

Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
BWFC (10/26/2016)
jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (10/26/2016)
jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
HanShi (10/26/2016)
BLOB_EATER (10/26/2016)
Lynn Pettis (10/25/2016)
Spammers are getting better, now even the topics they post look legit.
I liked Eric's response - "get a job you bum".
The problem is that they probably respond back with: "this is my job because I'm making good money!". Like told since the beginning of SPAM: if nobody would click, they wouldn't make money and it would stop very soon...
I would have thought that the click rate from members of this forum would be extremely low.
Maybe Steve can tell us which of our members have decided to follow the link, perhaps with the dream of obtaining a cheap kitchen or younger looking skin, so that we can apply some friendly peer pressure :w00t:
Wait, you mean it was a mistake to go to the kitchen site to request a quote?
I thought it was kind of odd they asked for a credit card #, drivers license #, mothers' maiden name, first pets name, and (once I put in my address) my Social Security number, but I figured it was just for record-keeping purposes...
Was that not correct?
:hehe:
Wait. Did you get a different link then I did? When I clicked on the kitchen sink link it took me to a page that told me my cats were trapped in Nigeria and I needed to send them money to get out of the country.
No, I think that was the one for the mega-muscle-nuke-pro stuff, I didn't bother filling anything in there because all 4 of my pets were in the room with me.
We've just had a box of amino-acid bodybuilding stuff turn up from Amazon with no name on it. Could this be the next step in the evolution of the spammers?
Keep quiet, enjoy your unsolicited breakfast and watch those muscles grow. It really works. Thousands of satisfied customers.

As seen on TV....:-D

😎

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

Eirikur Eiriksson (10/26/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
BWFC (10/26/2016)
jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (10/26/2016)
jasona.work (10/26/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
HanShi (10/26/2016)
BLOB_EATER (10/26/2016)
Lynn Pettis (10/25/2016)
Spammers are getting better, now even the topics they post look legit.
I liked Eric's response - "get a job you bum".
The problem is that they probably respond back with: "this is my job because I'm making good money!". Like told since the beginning of SPAM: if nobody would click, they wouldn't make money and it would stop very soon...
I would have thought that the click rate from members of this forum would be extremely low.
Maybe Steve can tell us which of our members have decided to follow the link, perhaps with the dream of obtaining a cheap kitchen or younger looking skin, so that we can apply some friendly peer pressure :w00t:
Wait, you mean it was a mistake to go to the kitchen site to request a quote?
I thought it was kind of odd they asked for a credit card #, drivers license #, mothers' maiden name, first pets name, and (once I put in my address) my Social Security number, but I figured it was just for record-keeping purposes...
Was that not correct?
:hehe:
Wait. Did you get a different link then I did? When I clicked on the kitchen sink link it took me to a page that told me my cats were trapped in Nigeria and I needed to send them money to get out of the country.
No, I think that was the one for the mega-muscle-nuke-pro stuff, I didn't bother filling anything in there because all 4 of my pets were in the room with me.
We've just had a box of amino-acid bodybuilding stuff turn up from Amazon with no name on it. Could this be the next step in the evolution of the spammers?
Keep quiet, enjoy your unsolicited breakfast and watch those muscles grow. It really works. Thousands of satisfied customers.
As seen on TV....:-D
😎

Well then, it must be true. If it was on TV and the internet, it just has to be true. :hehe:

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Best practices on how to ask questions

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246963 More actions · Answer 10

Any clairvoyants here today?

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

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 11

Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
Any clairvoyants here today?

I admit that's very tempting, but I don't want to get drawn into a battle of sarcastic remarks that have nothing to do with the problem.

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

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 12

Ed Wagner (10/26/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
Any clairvoyants here today?
I admit that's very tempting, but I don't want to get drawn into a battle of sarcastic remarks that have nothing to do with the problem.

He's a regular, so by now he should now how to post to get help. I have no intentions of trying to help when they expect us to read minds.

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

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 13

Luis Cazares (10/26/2016)
Ed Wagner (10/26/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
Any clairvoyants here today?
I admit that's very tempting, but I don't want to get drawn into a battle of sarcastic remarks that have nothing to do with the problem.
He's a regular, so by now he should now how to post to get help. I have no intentions of trying to help when they expect us to read minds.

Heh... makes me even happier that I don't use SSIS (ducking from Phil now!) . 😀

--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
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 14

Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
Any clairvoyants here today?

I knew you were going to ask that...

Steve Hall
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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 15

BrainDonor (10/27/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/26/2016)
Any clairvoyants here today?
I knew you were going to ask that...

I foresee that question being asked again in the very near future.

😉

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.