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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 1

Ed Wagner - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:20 AM
Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 8:33 AM
The nasty weather is almost here. We are expecting an ice storm that starts today around noon and doesn't stop until sunday night. We are in the projected bullseye to get 1/2"+ of ice. Ugh!!! At least I have already been to the store and loaded up the cupboards for a long of weekend of family activities. I have a feeling our new holiday ping pong table is going to get a lot of activity this weekend.
I heard about that on the way to work today, only I heard up to 1" of ice. :unsure:🙁 There's only so much you can do to prepare for something like that and it sounds like you've done the important stuff. I also make sure the gas tanks are full on the cars. In the event of an extended power loss over a wide area, the gas stations won't be working.
Stay home and stay safe.

I filled the van yesterday and have plenty of wood for the fireplace. We have all underground power lines around my place so any outages will have to happen from a distance. In the 10+ years we have been in this house we only lost power a couple of times and never for very long. Of course at one point one of the VP's of the power company lived in our neighborhood so I am sure that during that time outages were dealt with as extremely important.

The weather guy did say that is could be as much 1" but the "official" forecast has us in the .5+ range. I am not a huge NFL fan but I wonder what is going to happen for the Chiefs game at Arrowhead Sunday night. Pretty sure we don't 78,000 drunk people driving around on frozen roads. :crazy:

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736222 More actions · Answer 2

Frosty morning today, foggy and chilly. Need to ride a motorcycle home today for my kid (he's buying one). Gonna have to dig out some cold weather gear.

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 3

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:53 AM
Frosty morning today, foggy and chilly. Need to ride a motorcycle home today for my kid (he's buying one). Gonna have to dig out some cold weather gear.

Or make him ride it home and you get to ride in the warm car. Good time of year to buy a bike though, they are usually pretty cheap when it is cold and snowy outside. 🙂

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SQLBill SSC Guru Points: 51440 More actions · Answer 4

Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:30 AM
Ed Wagner - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:20 AM
Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 8:33 AM
The nasty weather is almost here. We are expecting an ice storm that starts today around noon and doesn't stop until sunday night. We are in the projected bullseye to get 1/2"+ of ice. Ugh!!! At least I have already been to the store and loaded up the cupboards for a long of weekend of family activities. I have a feeling our new holiday ping pong table is going to get a lot of activity this weekend.
I heard about that on the way to work today, only I heard up to 1" of ice. :unsure:🙁 There's only so much you can do to prepare for something like that and it sounds like you've done the important stuff. I also make sure the gas tanks are full on the cars. In the event of an extended power loss over a wide area, the gas stations won't be working.
Stay home and stay safe.
I filled the van yesterday and have plenty of wood for the fireplace. We have all underground power lines around my place so any outages will have to happen from a distance. In the 10+ years we have been in this house we only lost power a couple of times and never for very long. Of course at one point one of the VP's of the power company lived in our neighborhood so I am sure that during that time outages were dealt with as extremely important.
The weather guy did say that is could be as much 1" but the "official" forecast has us in the .5+ range. I am not a huge NFL fan but I wonder what is going to happen for the Chiefs game at Arrowhead Sunday night. Pretty sure we don't 78,000 drunk people driving around on frozen roads. :crazy:

Steelers at Chiefs got "delayed" to 8:20 PM Eastern. Go Steelers!!!

-SQLBill

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246961 More actions · Answer 5

Has there been a discussion somewhere that I've missed about the new forum and the handling of SPAM?
I still get a significant number of spam notifications & I was not expecting that to happen much with the new software.

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Dave Convery SSCrazy Points: 2159 More actions · Answer 6

Phil Parkin - Monday, January 16, 2017 6:29 AM
Has there been a discussion somewhere that I've missed about the new forum and the handling of SPAM?
I still get a significant number of spam notifications & I was not expecting that to happen much with the new software.

We've not really mentioned spam, as most of the changes are under the hood or to moderator tools to speed up removal.

Are you subscribed to a large number of forums?

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 7

SQLBill - Friday, January 13, 2017 1:50 PM
Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:30 AM
Ed Wagner - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:20 AM
Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 8:33 AM
The nasty weather is almost here. We are expecting an ice storm that starts today around noon and doesn't stop until sunday night. We are in the projected bullseye to get 1/2"+ of ice. Ugh!!! At least I have already been to the store and loaded up the cupboards for a long of weekend of family activities. I have a feeling our new holiday ping pong table is going to get a lot of activity this weekend.
I heard about that on the way to work today, only I heard up to 1" of ice. :unsure:🙁 There's only so much you can do to prepare for something like that and it sounds like you've done the important stuff. I also make sure the gas tanks are full on the cars. In the event of an extended power loss over a wide area, the gas stations won't be working.
Stay home and stay safe.
I filled the van yesterday and have plenty of wood for the fireplace. We have all underground power lines around my place so any outages will have to happen from a distance. In the 10+ years we have been in this house we only lost power a couple of times and never for very long. Of course at one point one of the VP's of the power company lived in our neighborhood so I am sure that during that time outages were dealt with as extremely important.
The weather guy did say that is could be as much 1" but the "official" forecast has us in the .5+ range. I am not a huge NFL fan but I wonder what is going to happen for the Chiefs game at Arrowhead Sunday night. Pretty sure we don't 78,000 drunk people driving around on frozen roads. :crazy:
Steelers at Chiefs got "delayed" to 8:20 PM Eastern. Go Steelers!!!
-SQLBill

I set up my DVR to record the Biggest Loser but it just keeps recording Chiefs playoffs games. :w00t::w00t::w00t:

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Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 8

The massive ice storm that was predicted for the weekend apparently never received notification it was supposed to show up. They predicted as much as 1" of freezing rain around KC. We got just a tiny bit Friday night, barely enough to make things slick. That was the extent of the whole thing.

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Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736222 More actions · Answer 9

Not a great game. Now I can just hope the Steelers show up and beat the Pats next weekend.

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246961 More actions · Answer 10

Dave Convery - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:08 AM
Phil Parkin - Monday, January 16, 2017 6:29 AM
Has there been a discussion somewhere that I've missed about the new forum and the handling of SPAM?
I still get a significant number of spam notifications & I was not expecting that to happen much with the new software.
We've not really mentioned spam, as most of the changes are under the hood or to moderator tools to speed up removal.
Are you subscribed to a large number of forums?

If 'large' = 7 or 8, then yes. So are you saying that you have not made the process of creating spam any more difficult?

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

Dave Convery SSCrazy Points: 2159 More actions · Answer 11

Phil Parkin - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:37 AM
Dave Convery - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:08 AM
Phil Parkin - Monday, January 16, 2017 6:29 AM
Has there been a discussion somewhere that I've missed about the new forum and the handling of SPAM?
I still get a significant number of spam notifications & I was not expecting that to happen much with the new software.
We've not really mentioned spam, as most of the changes are under the hood or to moderator tools to speed up removal.
Are you subscribed to a large number of forums?
If 'large' = 7 or 8, then yes. So are you saying that you have not made the process of creating spam any more difficult?

No, it's harder to sign up, and harder to post spam, as well as being easier for mods to remove it. There are still some notifications going out for posts that are immediately pulled from the site - we're looking at options for stopping these now.

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

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:21 AM
Not a great game. Now I can just hope the Steelers show up and beat the Pats next weekend.

By beat you mean lose horribly. Yeah, I agree.

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Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246961 More actions · Answer 13

Dave Convery - Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00 AM
No, it's harder to sign up, and harder to post spam, as well as being easier for mods to remove it. There are still some notifications going out for posts that are immediately pulled from the site - we're looking at options for stopping these now.

Thanks Dave. Do your best, it will be appreciated by us all.

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 14

Grant Fritchey - Monday, January 16, 2017 8:04 AM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:21 AM
Not a great game. Now I can just hope the Steelers show up and beat the Pats next weekend.
By beat you mean lose horribly. Yeah, I agree.

I'm happy the Packers beat the Cowboys. I've been a Packers fan as far back as I can remember. It was also a very good game to watch.

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 15

Sean Lange - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:20 AM
The massive ice storm that was predicted for the weekend apparently never received notification it was supposed to show up. They predicted as much as 1" of freezing rain around KC. We got just a tiny bit Friday night, barely enough to make things slick. That was the extent of the whole thing.

I hope those ratios hold true for us. They're predicting from 0.1" to 0.2" this evening, ending around 2:00 AM.

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