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  • Luis Cazares - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:00 AM

    Sean Lange - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 7:32 AM

    A thirsty one? LOL.

    I have never been to Twin Peaks but they serve the beer so cold I don't know if I would like it. I tend to like dark beers which shouldn't be served at 28 degrees.

    For a moment, I thought that 28 degrees was way too hot for a beer. Then I remembered that you don't use Celsius. 😀

    Heh I should have been specific. 🙂 So then I thought maybe I should look it up. I was incorrect on the temperature. It is served at 29F, not 28.

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  • Sean Lange - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:45 AM

    Luis Cazares - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:00 AM

    For a moment, I thought that 28 degrees was way too hot for a beer. Then I remembered that you don't use Celsius. 😀

    Heh I should have been specific. 🙂 So then I thought maybe I should look it up. I was incorrect on the temperature. It is served at 29F, not 28.

    As an ale drinker, 28C is a little warm as well, however, this time of year it doesn't stay lukewarm (cold ale, yuck!) for long.

    Thom~

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    Larnu.uk

  • Thom A - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:57 AM

    Sean Lange - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:45 AM

    Luis Cazares - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:00 AM

    For a moment, I thought that 28 degrees was way too hot for a beer. Then I remembered that you don't use Celsius. 😀

    Heh I should have been specific. 🙂 So then I thought maybe I should look it up. I was incorrect on the temperature. It is served at 29F, not 28.

    As an ale drinker, 28C is a little warm as well, however, this time of year it doesn't stay lukewarm (cold ale, yuck!) for long.

    But 28F is so cold you can barely taste it. Although for some beers that would be preferred. 😀

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  • Last night, something weird happened in my dream.
    I saw some advertisement for SQL consulting services charging $8USD per non-clustered index. I'm still trying to determine if the bad part was that I dreamed about it or that I was actually analyzing how terrible business/scam would that be.

    Luis C.
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  • Luis Cazares - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:09 AM

    Last night, something weird happened in my dream.
    I saw some advertisement for SQL consulting services charging $8USD per non-clustered index. I'm still trying to determine if the bad part was that I dreamed about it or that I was actually analyzing how terrible business/scam would that be.

    *scribbles furiously on new business plan

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  • Luis Cazares - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:09 AM

    Last night, something weird happened in my dream.
    I saw some advertisement for SQL consulting services charging $8USD per non-clustered index. I'm still trying to determine if the bad part was that I dreamed about it or that I was actually analyzing how terrible business/scam would that be.

    LOL in many systems I see that would be horribly cheap for the client as there are generally so few indexes other than the default clustered index generated for the identity primary key column on every table. 🙂

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  • Sean Lange - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:30 AM

    Luis Cazares - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:09 AM

    Last night, something weird happened in my dream.
    I saw some advertisement for SQL consulting services charging $8USD per non-clustered index. I'm still trying to determine if the bad part was that I dreamed about it or that I was actually analyzing how terrible business/scam would that be.

    LOL in many systems I see that would be horribly cheap for the client as there are generally so few indexes other than the default clustered index generated for the identity primary key column on every table. 🙂

    You must mean those where the developer did not click their way through the GUI and created heaps for everything. 😉

  • Ed Wagner - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:34 AM

    Sean Lange - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:30 AM

    Luis Cazares - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:09 AM

    Last night, something weird happened in my dream.
    I saw some advertisement for SQL consulting services charging $8USD per non-clustered index. I'm still trying to determine if the bad part was that I dreamed about it or that I was actually analyzing how terrible business/scam would that be.

    LOL in many systems I see that would be horribly cheap for the client as there are generally so few indexes other than the default clustered index generated for the identity primary key column on every table. 🙂

    You must mean those where the developer did not click their way through the GUI and created heaps for everything. 😉

    Yes, both of those clients. 😛

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  • Sean Lange - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:30 AM

    Luis Cazares - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:09 AM

    Last night, something weird happened in my dream.
    I saw some advertisement for SQL consulting services charging $8USD per non-clustered index. I'm still trying to determine if the bad part was that I dreamed about it or that I was actually analyzing how terrible business/scam would that be.

    LOL in many systems I see that would be horribly cheap for the client as there are generally so few indexes other than the default clustered index generated for the identity primary key column on every table. 🙂

    It would actually be more expensive due to all the indexes that would need to be created. Of course, someone charging like that might create even more indexes than the ones actually needed.

    Luis C.
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  • jasona.work - Tuesday, June 26, 2018 6:59 AM

    So I've got a week long work trip coming up next month, and I'm already starting to plan out what to pack, how much cash to bring, where there is to eat around the hotel, etc...
    I've sort of been working some of this for a few weeks now, I'm just sort of locking things down.
    I've got another trip coming up in August (not work,) and I'm already working with the wife on planning what to pack, how to pack it, food plans, etc...

    So, out of curiosity, how many of you start planning the details for trips weeks or months in advance?
    Things like packing lists, etc...

    Varies, sometimes a few months, sometimes weeks. We go away the end of July (22-31), no concrete reservations yet.

  • Luis Cazares - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:51 AM

    Sean Lange - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:30 AM

    Luis Cazares - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:09 AM

    Last night, something weird happened in my dream.
    I saw some advertisement for SQL consulting services charging $8USD per non-clustered index. I'm still trying to determine if the bad part was that I dreamed about it or that I was actually analyzing how terrible business/scam would that be.

    LOL in many systems I see that would be horribly cheap for the client as there are generally so few indexes other than the default clustered index generated for the identity primary key column on every table. 🙂

    It would actually be more expensive due to all the indexes that would need to be created. Of course, someone charging like that might create even more indexes than the ones actually needed.

    Oh I see....you were charging $8 for each index you need to create. That would be expensive!!!! Too funny!!!

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  • I usually plan my holidays months in advance. It gives me something to look forward to for one thing, but also I never book a package and I tend to travel around a lot (e.g. visiting national parks) so I like to do a lot of research and plan the best route/get the decent accommodation. That said, I booked an impromptu holiday a couple of months ago when I got my bonus, and that was pretty good with almost zero planning.

  • Sean Lange - Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:09 AM

    Luis Cazares - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:51 AM

    Sean Lange - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:30 AM

    Luis Cazares - Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:09 AM

    Last night, something weird happened in my dream.
    I saw some advertisement for SQL consulting services charging $8USD per non-clustered index. I'm still trying to determine if the bad part was that I dreamed about it or that I was actually analyzing how terrible business/scam would that be.

    LOL in many systems I see that would be horribly cheap for the client as there are generally so few indexes other than the default clustered index generated for the identity primary key column on every table. 🙂

    It would actually be more expensive due to all the indexes that would need to be created. Of course, someone charging like that might create even more indexes than the ones actually needed.

    Oh I see....you were charging $8 for each index you need to create. That would be expensive!!!! Too funny!!!

    I think Sean and I were thinking the same thing, that you'd be paying for each non-clustered index you had. 🙂 I think in some places that you effectively mean you could hire a consultant for free! I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not... :hehe:

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
    Larnu.uk

  • Sean Lange - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 9:38 AM

    Thom A - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:57 AM

    Sean Lange - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:45 AM

    Luis Cazares - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:00 AM

    For a moment, I thought that 28 degrees was way too hot for a beer. Then I remembered that you don't use Celsius. 😀

    Heh I should have been specific. 🙂 So then I thought maybe I should look it up. I was incorrect on the temperature. It is served at 29F, not 28.

    As an ale drinker, 28C is a little warm as well, however, this time of year it doesn't stay lukewarm (cold ale, yuck!) for long.

    But 28F is so cold you can barely taste it. Although for some beers that would be preferred. 😀

    I have always believed that any beer normally served at 49F or lower tempersture is served at that temperature because it tastes pretty foul and the coldness tends to numb taste-buds and inhibit the sense of smell.  Beer that tasted that foul was said (back in the 1960s) to suffer from Kangaroo Valley Beer Disease, a name derived from the beers sold (typically below 30F) in a part of London (Earl's Court) where most pubs served up foul Australian lagers (because a lot of Australians drank there).  Later on I when I visited the USA in teh 80s and 90s I discoved that most American beers either tasted as if they suffered from KVBD or were served so cold that they couldn't be tasted - but beer things seemed to have improved in the USA when I visted there quite often between 2002 and 2009 (although the USA went down hill a in other ways: the revised imigration check system after the abolishment of the previous visa system was utterly barbarous).
    Some beers are quite drinkable at quite high temperatures - even as high as 25C but only if the air temperature is at least a couple of degrees higher than the beer temperature. 

    I would say that if a beer is served beow

    Tom

  • jasona.work - Tuesday, June 26, 2018 6:59 AM

    So, out of curiosity, how many of you start planning the details for trips weeks or months in advance?
    Things like packing lists, etc...

    My wife likes planning and preparing ages in advance,  I'm at the opposite extreme.
    I finally got round, this morning, to booking a room for us in a hotel in Edinburgh for 4 days (checkout on Sunday) next week.  I'd known for about a year that we would be driving up early in August and particularly needed to be there until early afternoon on the first Sunday in August, but only my wife's nagging made me get round to booking a room this early. If we're checking in next Wednesday afternoon, why (other than to eliminate the nagging) should I need to book today - that's 6 days in advance.  Next she'll be nagging me to pack.  Packing for a 4 day trip is pretty trivial, so I would prefer to do on the day I'll be setting off, but I probably won't be allowed to.

    Tom

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