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below86 SSChampion Points: 11532 More actions · Answer 1

Just need a place to vent this... I was searching for a room on a major hotel chains website, I entered the dates as March 30, 2019 through April 6. I find a match at the hotel I want to stay at, great. Oops, I entered my date wrong, I need March 31 through April 6. I noticed this right after the initial search, so I change the dates and search again. No rooms available now!? OK, maybe someone swooped in and got the last rooms available. But I try doing the initial search again, the 03/30 date, again it finds rooms. OK, maybe it's being kept in my browser/cookies whatever. So I try doing this search on a different computer and my phone, I get the same results. It says there is a room for 03/302019 - 04/06/2019 but not 03/31/2019 - 04/06/2019. This just seems really messed up that for the shorter time frame it would say no rooms. I'm not trying to get any special promotion or anything like that, just a simple search based on the dates.

Whatever their reason is they just lost my business. Idiots!.

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

below86 - Friday, March 22, 2019 11:10 AM
Just need a place to vent this... I was searching for a room on a major hotel chains website, I entered the dates as March 30, 2019 through April 6. I find a match at the hotel I want to stay at, great. Oops, I entered my date wrong, I need March 31 through April 6. I noticed this right after the initial search, so I change the dates and search again. No rooms available now!? OK, maybe someone swooped in and got the last rooms available. But I try doing the initial search again, the 03/30 date, again it finds rooms. OK, maybe it's being kept in my browser/cookies whatever. So I try doing this search on a different computer and my phone, I get the same results. It says there is a room for 03/302019 - 04/06/2019 but not 03/31/2019 - 04/06/2019. This just seems really messed up that for the shorter time frame it would say no rooms. I'm not trying to get any special promotion or anything like that, just a simple search based on the dates.
Whatever their reason is they just lost my business. Idiots!.

Probably related to a two day minimum over the weekend. Plus, that is my birthday, so it's a global holiday.

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Jonathan AC Roberts SSCoach Points: 18355 More actions · Answer 3

below86 - Friday, March 22, 2019 11:10 AM
Just need a place to vent this... I was searching for a room on a major hotel chains website, I entered the dates as March 30, 2019 through April 6. I find a match at the hotel I want to stay at, great. Oops, I entered my date wrong, I need March 31 through April 6. I noticed this right after the initial search, so I change the dates and search again. No rooms available now!? OK, maybe someone swooped in and got the last rooms available. But I try doing the initial search again, the 03/30 date, again it finds rooms. OK, maybe it's being kept in my browser/cookies whatever. So I try doing this search on a different computer and my phone, I get the same results. It says there is a room for 03/302019 - 04/06/2019 but not 03/31/2019 - 04/06/2019. This just seems really messed up that for the shorter time frame it would say no rooms. I'm not trying to get any special promotion or anything like that, just a simple search based on the dates.
Whatever their reason is they just lost my business. Idiots!.

Agoda?

Michael L John One Orange Chip Points: 27056 More actions · Answer 4

below86 - Friday, March 22, 2019 11:10 AM
Just need a place to vent this... I was searching for a room on a major hotel chains website, I entered the dates as March 30, 2019 through April 6. I find a match at the hotel I want to stay at, great. Oops, I entered my date wrong, I need March 31 through April 6. I noticed this right after the initial search, so I change the dates and search again. No rooms available now!? OK, maybe someone swooped in and got the last rooms available. But I try doing the initial search again, the 03/30 date, again it finds rooms. OK, maybe it's being kept in my browser/cookies whatever. So I try doing this search on a different computer and my phone, I get the same results. It says there is a room for 03/302019 - 04/06/2019 but not 03/31/2019 - 04/06/2019. This just seems really messed up that for the shorter time frame it would say no rooms. I'm not trying to get any special promotion or anything like that, just a simple search based on the dates.
Whatever their reason is they just lost my business. Idiots!.

This is not unusual. We had a very flexible schedule 2 years ago, and while planning the stops at various places, we found the same thing.
It was especially prevalent when checking in on a Friday or Saturday, and checking in on a Sunday or Monday.

Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
To properly post on a forum:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/61537/

drew.allen SSC Guru Points: 76987 More actions · Answer 5

The guy complains that my solution doesn't use dynamic dates, even though I've clearly used the date variables that he set up in the sample. Can't see the forest for the trees.

J. Drew Allen
Business Intelligence Analyst
Philadelphia, PA

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 6

Strong, strong recommendation. Start learning notebooks. Also containers.

This message is actually most of the MVP Summit this year. Unlike other years, it's not a marketing message. This is real stuff. Get going with it now.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 7

Grant Fritchey - Friday, March 22, 2019 12:14 PM
Strong, strong recommendation. Start learning notebooks. Also containers.
This message is actually most of the MVP Summit this year. Unlike other years, it's not a marketing message. This is real stuff. Get going with it now.

Funny you say that, been thinking where that was going and had concluded that there must be an upcoming shift in IaaS and data service related areas
😎

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 8

Eirikur Eiriksson - Friday, March 22, 2019 12:40 PM
Grant Fritchey - Friday, March 22, 2019 12:14 PM
Strong, strong recommendation. Start learning notebooks. Also containers.
This message is actually most of the MVP Summit this year. Unlike other years, it's not a marketing message. This is real stuff. Get going with it now.
Funny you say that, been thinking where that was going and had concluded that there must be an upcoming shift in IaaS and data service related areas
😎

OOOOOH yeah!

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 9

Grant Fritchey - Friday, March 22, 2019 12:14 PM
Strong, strong recommendation. Start learning notebooks. Also containers.
This message is actually most of the MVP Summit this year. Unlike other years, it's not a marketing message. This is real stuff. Get going with it now.

Notebooks and containers?

Done and done :hehe:

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

jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6612 More actions · Answer 10

I saw you can use a container for a swimming pool. Sounds good to me

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below86 SSChampion Points: 11532 More actions · Answer 11

Jonathan AC Roberts - Friday, March 22, 2019 11:58 AM
below86 - Friday, March 22, 2019 11:10 AM
Just need a place to vent this... I was searching for a room on a major hotel chains website, I entered the dates as March 30, 2019 through April 6. I find a match at the hotel I want to stay at, great. Oops, I entered my date wrong, I need March 31 through April 6. I noticed this right after the initial search, so I change the dates and search again. No rooms available now!? OK, maybe someone swooped in and got the last rooms available. But I try doing the initial search again, the 03/30 date, again it finds rooms. OK, maybe it's being kept in my browser/cookies whatever. So I try doing this search on a different computer and my phone, I get the same results. It says there is a room for 03/302019 - 04/06/2019 but not 03/31/2019 - 04/06/2019. This just seems really messed up that for the shorter time frame it would say no rooms. I'm not trying to get any special promotion or anything like that, just a simple search based on the dates.
Whatever their reason is they just lost my business. Idiots!.
Agoda?

No, starts with an M. Kind of rhymes with idiot. 😀

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Beatrix Kiddo SSC-Dedicated Points: 32407 More actions · Answer 12

Morning, all. Would you expect to see this message in the error log of a SQL instance that does NOT have Availability Groups enabled (and never has)? It is on a clustered server, but as I said, no AGs ever.

Always On Availability Groups: Waiting for local Windows Server Failover Clustering node to start.

Thanks.

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 13

Beatrix Kiddo - Monday, March 25, 2019 3:55 AM
Morning, all. Would you expect to see this message in the error log of a SQL instance that does NOT have Availability Groups enabled (and never has)? It is on a clustered server, but as I said, no AGs ever.
Always On Availability Groups: Waiting for local Windows Server Failover Clustering node to start.
Thanks.

I've seen this few times but never dug into it since the severity level was too low for me to bother 😉
😎

Beatrix Kiddo SSC-Dedicated Points: 32407 More actions · Answer 14

Hah, thanks. I can't tell if it's an issue or not. We have some problems on this server and I'm trying to work out whether it might be a) useful diagnostic symptoms or b) a total non-issue.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736255 More actions · Answer 15

Thanks to everyone that did some testing on the new site. We're hoping to cut this week, but a couple of small, but rather important bugs to work through still.

If you have more feedback, keep it coming.