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DesNorton SSC-Insane Points: 24386 More actions · Answer 1

Ed Wagner - Thursday, April 27, 2017 6:25 AM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, April 26, 2017 1:53 PM
Ed Wagner - Wednesday, April 26, 2017 1:29 PM
They probably don't. Same for a card catalog in a library.
What's a library?
I was wondering if anyone would comment on the library. 😉 It's a building (that usually smelled excessively dusty) and was where you HAD TO GO to do research. Now, there's more information available on the phone in your pocket than there was in the library. I think it's good because information is available so widely to so many people. I think it's bad because anyone can write a site, page or post. Being right or accurate doesn't matter.

My kids were blown away when I introduced them to "Google from the Olden Days".
We were at a wine farm, and in the one building there was a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica.

How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help.

jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6612 More actions · Answer 2

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, April 26, 2017 4:09 PM
Is there any way I could get some of you to change habits and note quote 3,4, 10 posts in your replies? It does clutter the forum and make it harder to scroll through.
If you quote someone, all the previous quotes appear, but you can easily delete the other ones. As shown here.

Leave the last one, and we can easily jump back from there to older ones if needed.

wow, what a great idea and functionality! Don't you guys agree?

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RandomEvent SSCrazy Points: 2963 More actions · Answer 3

Encyclopedia Britannica I remember those my nan had a set not that we where ever allowed to look at them. It was more an image thing. They sat in that bookcase for years never being read. By the time she moved you couldn't give them away the "time of the" internet had arrived.

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 4

jonathan.crawford - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:13 AM
wow, what a great idea and functionality! Don't you guys agree?

Yes indeed

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 5

RandomEvent - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:14 AM
Encyclopedia Britannica I remember those my nan had a set not that we where ever allowed to look at them. It was more an image thing. They sat in that bookcase for years never being read. By the time she moved you couldn't give them away the "time of the" internet had arrived.

I still have the "Platinum Set", purchased for a small fortune 25 or so years ago at the insistence of my ex, despite her insistence that she knew everything!

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6612 More actions · Answer 6

DesNorton - Thursday, April 27, 2017 7:53 AM
My kids were blown away when I introduced them to "Google from the Olden Days".
We were at a wine farm, and in the one building there was a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica.

ha! We had a set from 1942 in our house, I used that for all sorts of school projects, and loved it! It's so surreal now that encyclopedias are obsolete

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jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6612 More actions · Answer 7

Sean Lange - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:16 AM
jonathan.crawford - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:13 AM
wow, what a great idea and functionality! Don't you guys agree?
Yes indeed

you're killing my joke, man

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rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15915 More actions · Answer 8

jonathan.crawford - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:23 AM
you're killing my joke, man

Dude, really...

rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15915 More actions · Answer 9

ChrisM@Work - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:20 AM
RandomEvent - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:14 AM
Encyclopedia Britannica I remember those my nan had a set not that we where ever allowed to look at them. It was more an image thing. They sat in that bookcase for years never being read. By the time she moved you couldn't give them away the "time of the" internet had arrived.
I still have the "Platinum Set", purchased for a small fortune 25 or so years ago at the insistence of my ex, despite her insistence that she knew everything!

Now she'd want to print out the internet I guess?

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 10

rodjkidd - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:26 AM
Dude, really...

/me = joke killer

That is the new album from Body Count.

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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/
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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 11

rodjkidd - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:27 AM
ChrisM@Work - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:20 AM
RandomEvent - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:14 AM
Encyclopedia Britannica I remember those my nan had a set not that we where ever allowed to look at them. It was more an image thing. They sat in that bookcase for years never being read. By the time she moved you couldn't give them away the "time of the" internet had arrived.
I still have the "Platinum Set", purchased for a small fortune 25 or so years ago at the insistence of my ex, despite her insistence that she knew everything!
Now she'd want to print out the internet I guess?

She'd insist - do you see a pattern emerging here? 🙂

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

RandomEvent - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:14 AM
Encyclopedia Britannica I remember those my nan had a set not that we where ever allowed to look at them. It was more an image thing. They sat in that bookcase for years never being read. By the time she moved you couldn't give them away the "time of the" internet had arrived.

When I was a young kid my parents bought an encyclopedia set. I would actually fall a sleep at night with several volumes open and spread out on my bed.

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 13

Chad Crawford - Monday, April 24, 2017 1:20 PM
PS - I should note that I have run into people who think that certifications are worthless and the only people who get them are those who can't prove their skill in any other way. I am most definitely not in that camp and we agreed to disagree on that point, but you should know that the opinion does exist should you run into it somewhere. When I run into someone like that (which is rare), I shrug and tell them to test me themselves.

At least until a decade ago most certifications were worthless or worse. There were some exceptions - the top rank MS certifications were obtainable only by people who know what they were doing - but not many, and it didn't matter which company was doing the certification (Microsoft, Cisco,...anyone) becuse the majority of people who got them did so on the crammer system - and forgot most of what they had learnt within a few weeks of the exam. I knew quite a few people who had stronger opinions on certifications than I had: I just ignored them on any CV I read because I reckoned they meant nothing while some people regarded their presence on a CV as evidence of incompetence. But then a significant proportion of CS degrees were equally worthless (especially "conversion-style Masters" degrees) - when recruiting one had to know which University had awarded the degree, and whether it was a "conversion" or something real.

I suspect that doing the learning for a certificate is more useful than it used to be. 15 years ago Microsoft's documentation was more than adequate to learn from, but the documentationquality now seems poorer; and other suppliers too seem to have lowered their documentation standards; so perhaps now going on a course aimed at a cert exam is an effective (albeit overpriced) way of getting some training.

Tom

rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15915 More actions · Answer 14

Sean Lange - Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:34 AM
/me = joke killer
That is the new album from Body Count.

Sean, I just got an email about a new one day rock festival in Cambridge. Not a single act on the 4 stages have I heard of. Which is bad. But four great names for bands...
Mammoth Penguins, Beverley Kills, The Baby Seals and Ducking Punches 🙂

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

My wife and I went to Austin City Limits a few years ago. Expensive trip (flight, hotel, tickets) but it was exciting and amazing. We went to see Stevie Wonder since he was on our bucket list, but along the way we also saw:

Sarah Barelles
Cee-Lo Green
Kanye West
Coldplay
a few other lessor names.

Some day I'd like to do another festival