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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 1

GilaMonster - Monday, May 29, 2017 1:18 PM
Oh, and Eirikur...
Brown lamb shanks in a pan, remove from pan
Soften some onion and garlic
Add a good amount of curry powder (I use pre-made, as we get some decent ones here, but you could mix up your own), cook until fragrant
Add tin tomatoes, stock, chopped butternut or pumpkin
Put in oven and cook until lamb is tender. By this point the pumpkin/butternut will have disolved, thickening the stew. If you want chunks of butternut, add most at the start and the rest part-way through the cooking.
Return to stove, add dumplings and cook until the dumplings are ready

Mouth watering, "almost" envious, cannot got good lamb in England. Will have to fallback to this
😎

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 2

GilaMonster - Monday, May 29, 2017 1:19 PM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Monday, May 29, 2017 8:52 AM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Monday, May 29, 2017 8:16 AM
GilaMonster - Monday, May 29, 2017 8:05 AM
So, Thursday?
I predict useful information posted on June 31
Which year?
😎
Since June doesn't have 31 days, any year.

He he, hence the question 😉
😎

Mr. Brian Gale SSC-Insane Points: 24800 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster - Monday, May 29, 2017 7:48 AM
Something tells me that this is going to take a while...
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1878491/SQL-server-2014-is-very-slow

I threw in a few more things for them to check... not sure if my advice will be helpful or not, but that available MB being 800 MB (if I am reading that right... his number format is not what I am used to but I am pretty sure it is 813.957 MB... I have an odd feeling it isn't 813,957 MB but I could easily be wrong).
They also did not provide any information on how much memory/CPU the system has, if the "very slow" was a gradual or sudden or always...

The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 4

Sean Lange - Friday, May 26, 2017 10:44 AM
Holy cow!!! That is shocking on many levels. Nice that the name of the type is current columns....sure hope that never changes. Reminds of our marketing guy. He decided he was going to work on the css for the main website. He named his css classes with all the attributes of the class. So classes like RedFontUnderlineSize12. Then he would always ask me to do a find/replace on the whole site when he wanted to change the css because he had to change the class name as the name no longer matched. It took me telling him to do it himself one time before he realized that a bit more generic name was appropriate. 🙂

Many, many years ago I was a COBOL developer working on a large system for Social Services. The consultancy firm that was in charge specified that we shouldn't do such things as 'SET var1 TO 1' but should do 'SET Var1 TO ws-one', where 'ws-one' would have a value of 1. When I asked why this was they said so they could just change the variable value instead of making multiple changes to the code.
"So we can have something called 'ws-one' that could have a value of 5?"
"Yes" was the reply and it made perfect sense to them.

Fortunately that project never saw the light of day.

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

Eirikur Eiriksson - Monday, May 29, 2017 2:21 PM
GilaMonster - Monday, May 29, 2017 1:18 PM
Oh, and Eirikur...
Brown lamb shanks in a pan, remove from pan
Soften some onion and garlic
Add a good amount of curry powder (I use pre-made, as we get some decent ones here, but you could mix up your own), cook until fragrant
Add tin tomatoes, stock, chopped butternut or pumpkin
Put in oven and cook until lamb is tender. By this point the pumpkin/butternut will have disolved, thickening the stew. If you want chunks of butternut, add most at the start and the rest part-way through the cooking.
Return to stove, add dumplings and cook until the dumplings are ready
Mouth watering, "almost" envious, cannot got good lamb in England. Will have to fallback to this
😎

You can, but you have to pay a shoulder and a leg for it 🙂

^{“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

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

ChrisM@Work - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1:57 AM
You can, but you have to pay a shoulder and a leg for it 🙂

Your picture doesn't show up. All I see is a massive grey block with a no-entry sign on it.

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 7

Loving the banter between Gail and Eirikur in the "urgent please help me with my invoicing problem" 😀
And now I know where the lamb stew recipe came from...

Rodders...

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 8

GilaMonster - Monday, May 29, 2017 1:18 PM
Oh, and Eirikur...
Brown lamb shanks in a pan, remove from pan
Soften some onion and garlic
Add a good amount of curry powder (I use pre-made, as we get some decent ones here, but you could mix up your own), cook until fragrant
Add tin tomatoes, stock, chopped butternut or pumpkin
Put in oven and cook until lamb is tender. By this point the pumpkin/butternut will have disolved, thickening the stew. If you want chunks of butternut, add most at the start and the rest part-way through the cooking.
Return to stove, add dumplings and cook until the dumplings are ready

GAH!

GAIL.... STOP MAKING US HUNGRY!

@=)

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.

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 9

GilaMonster - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 3:18 AM
ChrisM@Work - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1:57 AM
You can, but you have to pay a shoulder and a leg for it 🙂
Your picture doesn't show up. All I see is a massive grey block with a no-entry sign on it.

This is the picture, me doing pizza last night
😎

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 10

ChrisM@Work - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1:57 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Monday, May 29, 2017 2:21 PM
GilaMonster - Monday, May 29, 2017 1:18 PM
Oh, and Eirikur...
Brown lamb shanks in a pan, remove from pan
Soften some onion and garlic
Add a good amount of curry powder (I use pre-made, as we get some decent ones here, but you could mix up your own), cook until fragrant
Add tin tomatoes, stock, chopped butternut or pumpkin
Put in oven and cook until lamb is tender. By this point the pumpkin/butternut will have disolved, thickening the stew. If you want chunks of butternut, add most at the start and the rest part-way through the cooking.
Return to stove, add dumplings and cook until the dumplings are ready
Mouth watering, "almost" envious, cannot got good lamb in England. Will have to fallback to this
😎
You can, but you have to pay a shoulder and a leg for it 🙂

and that's for the shanks only!
😎

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 11

You know, I dislike people that have their own pizza ovens...

They never invite me over to try their masterpieces. Shame on them. @=)

Whyfor is everyone making me drool with envy this morning? WHY????

STELLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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.

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 12

Brandie Tarvin - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 4:35 AM
GAH!
GAIL.... STOP MAKING US HUNGRY!
@=)

Ooops, sorry Brandie 😀
😎
want a slice???

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 13

Eirikur Eiriksson - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 4:36 AM
ChrisM@Work - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1:57 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Monday, May 29, 2017 2:21 PM
GilaMonster - Monday, May 29, 2017 1:18 PM
Oh, and Eirikur...
Brown lamb shanks in a pan, remove from pan
Soften some onion and garlic
Add a good amount of curry powder (I use pre-made, as we get some decent ones here, but you could mix up your own), cook until fragrant
Add tin tomatoes, stock, chopped butternut or pumpkin
Put in oven and cook until lamb is tender. By this point the pumpkin/butternut will have disolved, thickening the stew. If you want chunks of butternut, add most at the start and the rest part-way through the cooking.
Return to stove, add dumplings and cook until the dumplings are ready
Mouth watering, "almost" envious, cannot got good lamb in England. Will have to fallback to this
😎
You can, but you have to pay a shoulder and a leg for it 🙂
and that's for the shanks only!
😎

Yeah tell me - before they became fashionable, lamb shanks were cheap!
You can buy a frozen NZ lamb leg for under a tenner, that's about 2kg. A fresh leg of Welsh lamb will cost you close to Â£30. The difference is amazing.

^{“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

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 14

Eirikur Eiriksson - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 4:38 AM
Brandie Tarvin - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 4:35 AM
GAH!
GAIL.... STOP MAKING US HUNGRY!
@=)
Ooops, sorry Brandie 😀
😎
want a slice???

YES, darnit! Please email ASAP. @=)

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.

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 15

Brandie Tarvin - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 4:43 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 4:38 AM
Brandie Tarvin - Tuesday, May 30, 2017 4:35 AM
GAH!
GAIL.... STOP MAKING US HUNGRY!
@=)
Ooops, sorry Brandie 😀
😎
want a slice???
YES, darnit! Please email ASAP. @=)

You're gonna need a Texan swallow for that

^{“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