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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 1

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, April 13, 2018 11:43 AM
*Hold my beer*
It was 74 here yesterday. Drove around in shorts, t-shirt, sunroof open.
This morning

So I guess this is bragging while working from home.

Luis C.
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004365 More actions · Answer 2

Lynn Pettis - Friday, April 13, 2018 8:46 AM
Jeff Moden - Thursday, April 12, 2018 11:01 PM
We just had Paul Randal give our user group his famous Index Fragmentation lecture. The man is one hell of a great teacher. I hope he never loses his passion for teaching.
Lucky dogs. I would love to have him speak at our users group meeting.

Ah... my apologies. I left out an important part because it didn't diminish the quality of the presentation at all... he did it remotely. Still bloody amazing.

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Jason A. Long SSC-Insane Points: 23786 More actions · Answer 3

Jeff Moden - Friday, April 13, 2018 2:53 PM
Lynn Pettis - Friday, April 13, 2018 8:46 AM
Jeff Moden - Thursday, April 12, 2018 11:01 PM
We just had Paul Randal give our user group his famous Index Fragmentation lecture. The man is one hell of a great teacher. I hope he never loses his passion for teaching.
Lucky dogs. I would love to have him speak at our users group meeting.
Ah... my apologies. I left out an important part because it didn't diminish the quality of the presentation at all... he did it remotely. Still bloody amazing.

He did the same presentation for the DBA Fundamentals virtual group 10 days ago... You're right. It is an awesome presentation.
http://fundamentals.pass.org/MeetingArchive.aspx

Fortunately, they record all of their speakers and make the presentations available on YouTube...

Index Fragmentation Internals, Analysis, and Solutions Paul Randal

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 4

Luis Cazares - Friday, April 13, 2018 1:17 PM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, April 13, 2018 11:43 AM
*Hold my beer*
It was 74 here yesterday. Drove around in shorts, t-shirt, sunroof open.
This morning
So I guess this is bragging while working from home.

OK, who wants to go in on a refrigerated truck, a front loader, and a drive to one of the snow-areas, followed by a delivery to his yard?

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

jasona.work - Monday, April 16, 2018 6:39 AM
Luis Cazares - Friday, April 13, 2018 1:17 PM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, April 13, 2018 11:43 AM
*Hold my beer*
It was 74 here yesterday. Drove around in shorts, t-shirt, sunroof open.
This morning
So I guess this is bragging while working from home.
OK, who wants to go in on a refrigerated truck, a front loader, and a drive to one of the snow-areas, followed by a delivery to his yard?

Could you make a delivery to Cape Town instead? It's at least as warm as where Luis is, plus it's at the ocean

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 6

jasona.work - Monday, April 16, 2018 6:39 AM
OK, who wants to go in on a refrigerated truck, a front loader, and a drive to one of the snow-areas, followed by a delivery to his yard?

You should have come since yesterday to keep some snow while we went below 40. If you don't hurry, tomorrow will be too late and the snow won't last 5 minutes in the outside and would actually be refreshing and gladly accepted.

Luis C.
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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

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 7

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April 16, 2018 at 8:00 am

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It was 70F here yesterday.

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 8

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Monday, April 16, 2018 8:00 AM
It was 70F here yesterday.

It was so cold here yesterday they rescheduled the Royals game. Meanwhile Sporting KC played in the cold. My oldest son's soccer game was postponed yesterday also. It was about 28-29 F at kickoff with windchill taking it down to around 15F. This morning it was 26F with a windchill of 18F. Supposed to be in the lower 50s by this afternoon. We might be able to have baseball practice tonight.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 9

We have snow. Although it's slowly being melted by the cold rain that keeps falling. It's grey outside. Suicide may be a viable option (kidding, of course).

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Greg Edwards-268690 SSC-Insane Points: 20680 More actions · Answer 10

Luis Cazares - Monday, April 16, 2018 7:51 AM
jasona.work - Monday, April 16, 2018 6:39 AM
OK, who wants to go in on a refrigerated truck, a front loader, and a drive to one of the snow-areas, followed by a delivery to his yard?
You should have come since yesterday to keep some snow while we went below 40. If you don't hurry, tomorrow will be too late and the snow won't last 5 minutes in the outside and would actually be refreshing and gladly accepted.

I should take my ice auger out and drill some test holes. Might still be safe to drive the truck out on the ice. Although with all the snow, I'd need to have a plow.
This winter seems to be refusing to let go.
30 inches of ice up north with a foot + of snow, fishing opener might involve finding open water.

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

Grant Fritchey - Monday, April 16, 2018 8:10 AM
We have snow. Although it's slowly being melted by the cold rain that keeps falling. It's grey outside. Suicide may be a viable option (kidding, of course).

We had freezing rain here yesterday. There was between 1/4" and 1/2" of ice covering everything, but the roads stayed mostly okay because they were warm. It took several hours for it to get above 32 F so things could start to melt. There's still 250,000 customers out of power in southeast Michigan.

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 12

Ed Wagner - Monday, April 16, 2018 8:13 AM
Grant Fritchey - Monday, April 16, 2018 8:10 AM
We have snow. Although it's slowly being melted by the cold rain that keeps falling. It's grey outside. Suicide may be a viable option (kidding, of course).
We had freezing rain here yesterday. There was between 1/4" and 1/2" of ice covering everything, but the roads stayed mostly okay because they were warm. It took several hours for it to get above 32 F so things could start to melt. There's still 250,000 customers out of power in southeast Michigan.

I called someone the wife and I know who lives in Toronto (Canada) a wimp for staying inside over a lousy inch or two of snow...
Kept expecting to lose power yesterday, but we didn't

I-75 though, at 8 Mile, was closed in both directions from flooding, that was fun to get around...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 13

It's crazy. Went to practice Thur night, shorts, 70F+. Got cooler after, but then snow Fri and i-70 closed from Denver to the Kansas border. Better Sat, and too warm for sweats when I went to our tournament yesterday.

Michael L John One Orange Chip Points: 27056 More actions · Answer 14

I was going to open the pool, but I bought a Zamboni for it instead.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 15

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Monday, April 16, 2018 8:24 AM
It's crazy. Went to practice Thur night, shorts, 70F+. Got cooler after, but then snow Fri and i-70 closed from Denver to the Kansas border. Better Sat, and too warm for sweats when I went to our tournament yesterday.

On the drive home Friday evening it was 78F when I started going home. Had to run an errand and by the time I got home an hour later it was hailing and just barely in the 40s. Dropped almost 40 degrees in an hour. :crazy:

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Read the article at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ for best practices on asking questions.

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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/