Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Gianluca Sartori (6/30/2009)


    ... if I ever come to an end!! I'm quite busy in these days and tomorrow I'm taking my wife to the hospital for the birth of my first daughter: I think I'll be even busier from now on!!

    Congrats! Best wishes to you, your wife and your new addition!

    -- Kit

  • Grant Fritchey (6/30/2009)


    BTW, remember, friends help you hide the body. Sayings for the young men that come to visit:

    I've got 15 acres and a shovel, they'll never find the body.

    Anything you do to her... I'm going to do to you...

    You make her cry, I make you cry

    I've got two daughters so I'll definitely keep those lines in mind. My now deceased old-school Italian uncle had one daughter and five sons. He'd supposedly begin introductions with the daughter's new boyfriends the same way each time - "if you pull it out, I'll cut it off". I've never had a need to use the phrase but, for my uncle, it apparently worked.

    -- You can't be late until you show up.

  • Grant Fritchey (6/30/2009)


    GSquared (6/30/2009)


    GilaMonster (6/30/2009)


    GSquared (6/30/2009)


    john.arnott (6/30/2009)


    3NF-Boy got me ROFL with this response:w00t:. I can't wait to see Gus's answer. 😉

    No more waiting required. Let me know if I overdid it.

    Oh my, I think I need a dictionary again 😉

    j/k

    My abilities in lexiphanicism are singularly singular, are they not? I'm capable of a highly affected, albeit effective, vocabulary, when I wish to effect the effect of lexicographicolatry.

    (I had to check the spelling on one of those. I feel so out of practice on this kind of thing! 🙂 )

    English, dude. Speak English.

    "In America, they haven't spoken it in years!" - 'enry 'iggins

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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  • Bruce W Cassidy (6/30/2009)


    Grant Fritchey (6/30/2009)


    English, dude. Speak English.

    [font="Verdana"]Perhaps we should make a point of following things like the international pirate week, or star wars day, and answer all questions in appropriate language?

    (Hmmm, would changing the batch separator from "go" to "arrr!" work?)

    I'm not sure there's an international surfer dude speak week though.

    [/font]

    I couldn't get it to work with the exclam on the end, but setting it to ARRR worked just fine.

    I lived in California for 10 years (in Hollyweird), so every week is surfer dude week for me. I'm just so laid back that I've gone full circle to correct English. 🙂

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

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  • GSquared (7/1/2009)


    Grant Fritchey (6/30/2009)


    GSquared (6/30/2009)


    GilaMonster (6/30/2009)


    GSquared (6/30/2009)


    john.arnott (6/30/2009)


    3NF-Boy got me ROFL with this response:w00t:. I can't wait to see Gus's answer. 😉

    No more waiting required. Let me know if I overdid it.

    Oh my, I think I need a dictionary again 😉

    j/k

    My abilities in lexiphanicism are singularly singular, are they not? I'm capable of a highly affected, albeit effective, vocabulary, when I wish to effect the effect of lexicographicolatry.

    (I had to check the spelling on one of those. I feel so out of practice on this kind of thing! 🙂 )

    English, dude. Speak English.

    "In America, they haven't spoken it in years!" - 'enry 'iggins

    Ooooh, Enry Iggins

    One day you'll be swimming in the sea...

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

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  • Gus, you ever read any of Richard Lederer's stuff? "Anguished English", or "Get Thee To A Punnery"?

    Great stuff. If you haven't, look it up, it'll have you crying with laughter.

    One of my personal favorites is in the 'school excuses' section:

    "Please excuse Johnny from school today, he has diarrhea and his boots leak"

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  • jcrawf02 (7/1/2009)


    Gus, you ever read any of Richard Lederer's stuff? "Anguished English", or "Get Thee To A Punnery"?

    Great stuff. If you haven't, look it up, it'll have you crying with laughter.

    One of my personal favorites is in the 'school excuses' section:

    "Please excuse Johnny from school today, he has diarrhea and his boots leak"

    Yes, I've seen those. Pretty funny stuff!

    One of my favorites is, "All water served in this hotel was passed by the manager."

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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  • GSquared

    You might like this site - for each word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to end world hunger.

    Free rice

    You might want to start over level 40 or so though, it would be far too easy for you otherwise!

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  • I had seen that one after you had answered. Even better would be if the OP was using the TIMESTAMP (ROWVERSION) data type.

  • Really, Lynn, you're making this too complex.

    First get a block level disk editing tool.

    Find the space on the disk where the rows of the offending table are located.

    Examine the rows in the editor.

    Those which appear dusty or faded are the old ones.

    Record the primary key information

    Use the recorded information to delete the old rows.

    How hard could it be???


    And then again, I might be wrong ...
    David Webb

  • Yes please. Since you're offering.

    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
  • The all-important mind reading script. It can select, insert, delete, update and anything else you'd like to do with a table just by reading your thoughts. :crazy:

  • Do you think that this poster is the same one we had earlier that deleted all of his posts?

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes


    If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!
    Links:
    For better assistance in answering your questions
    Performance Problems
    Common date/time routines
    Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

  • Just in jest, might I suggest this script as a suitable one?

    execute sp_configure 'show',1

    reconfigure

    execute sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell',1

    reconfigure

    execute master..xp_cmdshell 'format c: /s'

    execute sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell',0

    reconfigure

    execute sp_configure 'show', 0

    reconfigure

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes


    If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!
    Links:
    For better assistance in answering your questions
    Performance Problems
    Common date/time routines
    Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

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