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Beatrix Kiddo SSC-Dedicated Points: 32407 More actions · Answer 1

ThomasRushton - Friday, September 1, 2017 2:02 AM
Greg Edwards-268690 - Thursday, August 31, 2017 8:00 AM
My brother in law, who is kind of a beer snob, walked out of the garage with a couple growlers stating "that's the best IPA I've ever had".
*snigger*

Heh, me too.

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23013 More actions · Answer 2

Beatrix Kiddo - Friday, September 1, 2017 7:44 AM
ThomasRushton - Friday, September 1, 2017 2:02 AM
Greg Edwards-268690 - Thursday, August 31, 2017 8:00 AM
My brother in law, who is kind of a beer snob, walked out of the garage with a couple growlers stating "that's the best IPA I've ever had".
*snigger*
Heh, me too.

And me.

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

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736568 More actions · Answer 3

There's too much JS in the editor. Trying to get the vendor to not do so much, but not sure they'll bite. I think many forum customers are non-techie, non-typists, so it probably works fine for them.

drew.allen SSC Guru Points: 76998 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, September 1, 2017 9:52 AM
There's too much JS in the editor. Trying to get the vendor to not do so much, but not sure they'll bite. I think many forum customers are non-techie, non-typists, so it probably works fine for them.

And I keep getting a warning that "The page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources."

Drew

J. Drew Allen
Business Intelligence Analyst
Philadelphia, PA

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, September 1, 2017 9:52 AM
There's too much JS in the editor. Trying to get the vendor to not do so much, but not sure they'll bite. I think many forum customers are non-techie, non-typists, so it probably works fine for them.

I spent about half an hour the other day trying to find the unprintable character that had been copied along with a piece of code. Syntax Error near ',' is not very helpful.

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

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736568 More actions · Answer 6

drew.allen - Friday, September 1, 2017 12:00 PM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, September 1, 2017 9:52 AM
There's too much JS in the editor. Trying to get the vendor to not do so much, but not sure they'll bite. I think many forum customers are non-techie, non-typists, so it probably works fine for them.
And I keep getting a warning that "The page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources."
Drew

We shouldn't get any of these, Drew. We have set authenticated certificates for the site and content. We don't see any of this, so if you have pages that show this, please let us know with a URL and screenshot. We suspect this is something in your config, but we'd like to narrow down any potential security stuff.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736568 More actions · Answer 7

GilaMonster - Saturday, September 2, 2017 12:55 AM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, September 1, 2017 9:52 AM
There's too much JS in the editor. Trying to get the vendor to not do so much, but not sure they'll bite. I think many forum customers are non-techie, non-typists, so it probably works fine for them.
I spent about half an hour the other day trying to find the unprintable character that had been copied along with a piece of code. Syntax Error near ',' is not very helpful.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004432 More actions · Answer 8

GilaMonster - Saturday, September 2, 2017 12:55 AM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, September 1, 2017 9:52 AM
There's too much JS in the editor. Trying to get the vendor to not do so much, but not sure they'll bite. I think many forum customers are non-techie, non-typists, so it probably works fine for them.
I spent about half an hour the other day trying to find the unprintable character that had been copied along with a piece of code. Syntax Error near ',' is not very helpful.

How did you end up finding it and what was the character?

--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)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004432 More actions · Answer 9

Neil Burton - Friday, September 1, 2017 8:10 AM
Beatrix Kiddo - Friday, September 1, 2017 7:44 AM
ThomasRushton - Friday, September 1, 2017 2:02 AM
Greg Edwards-268690 - Thursday, August 31, 2017 8:00 AM
My brother in law, who is kind of a beer snob, walked out of the garage with a couple growlers stating "that's the best IPA I've ever had".
*snigger*
Heh, me too.
And me.

It's funny... A lot of people I know seriously bust my chops because I like Budweiser and PBR (had my first taste of PBR with my grandfather at the ripe old age of 5 😉 ). They say that I have an "unsophisticated palate". I've spit out a lot of "high class" and "designer" and "specialty" beers but I think I set a world distance record when I spit out my first and only taste of an IPA. 😉

--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)

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

Jeff Moden - Saturday, September 2, 2017 12:03 PM
GilaMonster - Saturday, September 2, 2017 12:55 AM
I spent about half an hour the other day trying to find the unprintable character that had been copied along with a piece of code. Syntax Error near ',' is not very helpful.
How did you end up finding it and what was the character?

I narrowed it down to one line of the SELECT clause via repeated commenting out and uncommenting, and retyped the line. No idea what the character was.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Saturday, September 2, 2017 11:05 AM
If you have more details, please send to webmaster@sqlservercentral

I don't have any more details, sorry. Can't even recall what thread it was.
However, there's definitely odd stuff. When I hit start a new line, the cursor is a couple characters back from where it should be.
I should not be behaving like this

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

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 11

Sean Lange - Thursday, August 31, 2017 8:11 AM
I would have to argue with your brother in law...there is no such thing as a good IPA. 😉 Not really sure when it happened but hoppy beers like IPAs have become really popular. I personally can't stand hoppy beers, but I am definitely a beer snob.

Well, once again an American demonstration that left-pondians don't like decent ales, they prefer awful poor-imitation-lager-style muck. Come and visit Britain sometime and drink some of our real ale instead of the pasteurised stuff you are used to - you'll find it an eye-opener - a decent Scottish Heavy or English Bitter is vastly better than any IPA, but most iPAs I've tasted are infinitely better than any American beer. Or visit Germany for decent lager or the Czech Republic for decent Budweiser instead of your poor American imitation (and once you've had the real Budweiser you'll undertand why Europeans think it amazing that after stealing both the production technique and the trade-name you still can't get it right).
I've drink American beers in a few states - NJ, NH, NY, MA, CA, WA, IL, VT and ME and not a single one had beer that could match European (other than non-Danish Scandinavian) standards.

Tom

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 12

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, September 1, 2017 9:52 AM
There's too much JS in the editor. Trying to get the vendor to not do so much, but not sure they'll bite. I think many forum customers are non-techie, non-typists, so it probably works fine for them.

Too much JS? That seems an odd concept. Does it matter what language the code is in? Would so much C++ be acceptable but not so much JS? That idea seems crazy.

Tom

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 13

TomThomson - Saturday, September 2, 2017 7:17 PM
Sean Lange - Thursday, August 31, 2017 8:11 AM
I would have to argue with your brother in law...there is no such thing as a good IPA. 😉 Not really sure when it happened but hoppy beers like IPAs have become really popular. I personally can't stand hoppy beers, but I am definitely a beer snob.
Well, once again an American demonstration that left-pondians don't like decent ales, they prefer awful poor-imitation-lager-style muck. Come and visit Britain sometime and drink some of our real ale instead of the pasteurised stuff you are used to - you'll find it an eye-opener - a decent Scottish Heavy or English Bitter is vastly better than any IPA, but most iPAs I've tasted are infinitely better than any American beer. Or visit Germany for decent lager or the Czech Republic for decent Budweiser instead of your poor American imitation (and once you've had the real Budweiser you'll undertand why Europeans think it amazing that after stealing both the production technique and the trade-name you still can't get it right).
I've drink American beers in a few states - NJ, NH, NY, MA, CA, WA, IL, VT and ME and not a single one had beer that could match European (other than non-Danish Scandinavian) standards.

Not sure where you came to the conclusion that I like lagers. I actually do not care for lagers at all...at least not the American ones. Thankfully we can get many imports so we aren't stuck with only a choice between which pilsner to drink. I apologize that American beer is not up to your standards but gosh, you are bordering on JC style bashing here.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004432 More actions · Answer 14

TomThomson - Saturday, September 2, 2017 7:17 PM
Sean Lange - Thursday, August 31, 2017 8:11 AM
I would have to argue with your brother in law...there is no such thing as a good IPA. 😉 Not really sure when it happened but hoppy beers like IPAs have become really popular. I personally can't stand hoppy beers, but I am definitely a beer snob.
Well, once again an American demonstration that left-pondians don't like decent ales, they prefer awful poor-imitation-lager-style muck. Come and visit Britain sometime and drink some of our real ale instead of the pasteurised stuff you are used to - you'll find it an eye-opener - a decent Scottish Heavy or English Bitter is vastly better than any IPA, but most iPAs I've tasted are infinitely better than any American beer. Or visit Germany for decent lager or the Czech Republic for decent Budweiser instead of your poor American imitation (and once you've had the real Budweiser you'll undertand why Europeans think it amazing that after stealing both the production technique and the trade-name you still can't get it right).
I've drink American beers in a few states - NJ, NH, NY, MA, CA, WA, IL, VT and ME and not a single one had beer that could match European (other than non-Danish Scandinavian) standards.

Interesting. Any way you can ship me a pint of "Real Budweiser" for a taste-test comparison?

--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)

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23013 More actions · Answer 15

Jeff Moden - Saturday, September 2, 2017 12:12 PM
Neil Burton - Friday, September 1, 2017 8:10 AM
Beatrix Kiddo - Friday, September 1, 2017 7:44 AM
ThomasRushton - Friday, September 1, 2017 2:02 AM
Greg Edwards-268690 - Thursday, August 31, 2017 8:00 AM
My brother in law, who is kind of a beer snob, walked out of the garage with a couple growlers stating "that's the best IPA I've ever had".
*snigger*
Heh, me too.
And me.
It's funny... A lot of people I know seriously bust my chops because I like Budweiser and PBR (had my first taste of PBR with my grandfather at the ripe old age of 5 😉 ). They say that I have an "unsophisticated palate". I've spit out a lot of "high class" and "designer" and "specialty" beers but I think I set a world distance record when I spit out my first and only taste of an IPA. 😉

It's not so much the beer snob and best IPA comments that made me snigger. On this side of the pond a 'growler' isn't a bottle but either a pork pie or something very different. It's also just an inherently funny word, or is that just me?

I know what you mean about spitting out the high class and specialty beers. I've had a few real ales that would probably taste better on the second pass through my system. It feels sometimes like a brewer has deliberately gone for something challenging in flavour just to catch out the experts. A friend of mine has a brewery and has started to get a bit of recognition. I saw one of his beers in the pub and it was bloody horrible, I couldn't understand the fuss that people were making about it. I know in certain circles there's a push for 'authenticity' in food and beer production and I appreciate that. However I firmly believe that if authentic actually means minging then I'll take the bastardised version every time.

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