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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22999 More actions · Answer 1

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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.
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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 2

It's been the kind of week where:

Mandated anti-virus software gets an update pushed over the weekend, begins gobbling CPU like it's the only application on the server (ALL the servers, SQL, Web, application, you name it.)
You reach your work-from-home day, and the VPN to the office is bouncier than a toddler on a pure caffeine, sugar, and given a puppy
When you try to go in to put in a ticket to get the work-around to the AV problem put in as requested by your boss, the VPN goes down and you can't reconnect. When you get a text back from the boss after texting him to let him know, you find out the fire alarm went off in the office, so no one is in there anyways...
You have tomorrow off, but you're requested to connect in (here's hoping the VPN works) to check on your servers (but at least you'll get comp time for it.)

Yeah, I'm frustrated today...

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173061 More actions · Answer 3

jasona.work wrote:

It's been the kind of week where:

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Mandated anti-virus software gets an update pushed over the weekend, begins gobbling CPU like it's the only application on the server (ALL the servers, SQL, Web, application, you name it.)

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You reach your work-from-home day, and the VPN to the office is bouncier than a toddler on a pure caffeine, sugar, and given a puppy

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When you try to go in to put in a ticket to get the work-around to the AV problem put in as requested by your boss, the VPN goes down and you can't reconnect. When you get a text back from the boss after texting him to let him know, you find out the fire alarm went off in the office, so no one is in there anyways...

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You have tomorrow off, but you're requested to connect in (here's hoping the VPN works) to check on your servers (but at least you'll get comp time for it.)

Yeah, I'm frustrated today...

Could be worse. About six months ago, someone pushed the AV update during the middle of a work day and blew away our database file exceptions in the process.

Brought down EVERYTHING and then our VP went on the warpath with us trying to find out what we did wrong.

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

Brandie Tarvin wrote:

Could be worse. About six months ago, someone pushed the AV update during the middle of a work day and blew away our database file exceptions in the process.
Brought down EVERYTHING and then our VP went on the warpath with us trying to find out what we did wrong.

Oh lord, now you've got me worried that might've happened as well...

Although I don't think it did, thankfully...

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99130 More actions · Answer 5

Neil Burton wrote:

And they've changed their minds.

Can we do that with some other recent decisions now please..? ??

Thom~

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

Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 6

Neil Burton wrote:

And they've changed their minds.

"UK to stay in Interrail scheme after U-turn"

ba dum chhh

"I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 7

Heh... more "new site" sucking sounds. The fnTally script that was recently published and nearly 4,000 reads and 9 votes yesterday. Today, it says it's only had a little over 300 reads and 2 votes.

Please, Steve... can we finally get the bugs worked out and properly repaired?

--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.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 8

Bugs are being fixed and things repaired. This is the first I've seen/heard of this. It's been filed.

jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6612 More actions · Answer 9

HAHAHAHA!!!! https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/wiseguy-changes-license-plate-to-null-gets-12k-in-parking-tickets/

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ZZartin SSC-Dedicated Points: 30920 More actions · Answer 10

jonathan.crawford wrote:

HAHAHAHA!!!! https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/wiseguy-changes-license-plate-to-null-gets-12k-in-parking-tickets/

Should have gone for 'NULL'

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 11

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

Bugs are being fixed and things repaired. This is the first I've seen/heard of this. It's been filed.

Thanks, Steve.

--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)

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

Thom A wrote:

Neil Burton wrote:
And they've changed their minds.
Can we do that with some other recent decisions now please..? ??

Yes please!

This forum is really quiet now. I know everybody's working hard fixing the issues and I don't want to put the boot in further, but I must admit I come here less myself nowadays because of how long pages take to load, how difficult it is to navigate now, etc.

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99130 More actions · Answer 13

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:

This forum is really quiet now. I know everybody's working hard fixing the issues and I don't want to put the boot in further, but I must admit I come here less myself nowadays because of how long pages take to load, how difficult it is to navigate now, etc.

I've found the volume of questions has been on the decline as well, meaning that my visits is on the decline, as there's no questions that I can answer, or haven't already been.

Thom~

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

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

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August 14, 2019 at 11:13 am

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Yes, it's a vicious circle!

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 15

Thom A wrote:

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:
This forum is really quiet now. I know everybody's working hard fixing the issues and I don't want to put the boot in further, but I must admit I come here less myself nowadays because of how long pages take to load, how difficult it is to navigate now, etc.
I've found the volume of questions has been on the decline as well, meaning that my visits is on the decline, as there's no questions that I can answer, or haven't already been.

You guys hit the nail on the head there. As the functionality and performance go down, use follows.

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