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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 1

My two favorites were always:

666 1/2

Basement of the Beast

665.95

Retail Number of the Beast

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

664 - The beast next door

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 3

I hate to pop everyone's bubble, but wasn't it established a while back that the 666 number is either a mistranslation or a bad copying job and tha thte actual number is either 615, 616 or 665? In which case, if it's either of the first two, we passed it a while back.

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RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 4

GilaMonster (7/14/2009)
Dave Ballantyne (7/13/2009)
GilaMonster (7/13/2009)
I was referring to one of the other of his threads, the one that Dave posted.
SELECT <lots> FROM <somewhere> WHERE tatcalltype = 'null' AND <other conditions>
Done, apparently, because 'null' is faster than NULL
Yes hes only got 15million rows , apparently selecting 14.7 million and would like it to run fast.
sp_configure 'Run queries fast', 1
Like the old turbo button on circa 286 machines.

Heh. That reminds me of what we used to tell customers back when I was doing performance support for DEC's VAX/VMS systems: "The FAST button is already on."

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Kit G SSCrazy Points: 2888 More actions · Answer 5

So, would that make it the deceptive Number of the Beast? 😀

-- Kit

RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 6

Paul White (7/14/2009)
Yep. Just couldn't be bothered...I'd gone to the trouble of wrapping it in and thought that would be good enough...seems not

Hmmm, should work?

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 7

Grant Fritchey (7/14/2009)
I hate to pop everyone's bubble, but wasn't it established a while back that the 666 number is either a mistranslation or a bad copying job and tha thte actual number is either 615, 616 or 665? In which case, if it's either of the first two, we passed it a while back.

Not sure what you mean about "we passed it a while back". Are you assuming the number refers to a number of years from a certain event? In which case, we've passed all of them quite some time ago, I would think. Just like "the Millennium", which was assumed by most to mean the world would end 1,000 years after either the birth or crucifixion of Jesus.

(I prefer to assume the world actually has ended, and we just need the ushers to wake us up and chase us out of the theatre.)

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 8

RBarryYoung (7/14/2009)
Paul White (7/14/2009)
Yep. Just couldn't be bothered...I'd gone to the trouble of wrapping it in and thought that would be good enough...seems not
Hmmm, should work?

It works in the sense that it doesn't eat the angle brackets, however it will automatically close all tags which, if it's not xml and they're there to indicate placeholders, looks awfully weird.

SELECT <Something> FROM <SomeTable>

SELECT FROM

Edit: I can't even get that working.... I know I could at one point

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RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 9

Grant Fritchey (7/14/2009)
I hate to pop everyone's bubble, but wasn't it established a while back that the 666 number is either a mistranslation or a bad copying job and tha thte actual number is either 615, 616 or 665? In which case, if it's either of the first two, we passed it a while back.

There were variant versions of The Revelation that listed 616 instead of 666. Irenaeus was aware of both versions and felt that 666 was the more legitimate. For all intents and purposes, Irenaeus was the person who most influenced what was and was not in the New Testament and why they were or were not legitimate.

Thing is, both numbers can be derived from Emperor Nero's name and title via Hebrew numerology, which is who most scholars have always thought that "the Beast" was referring to.

(Dang, Wikipedia is convenient! I knew all of this years ago, but it was a bear to track it all down, even with Google, until Wikipedia put it up.)

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 10

RBarryYoung (7/14/2009)
Paul White (7/14/2009)
Yep. Just couldn't be bothered...I'd gone to the trouble of wrapping it in and thought that would be good enough...seems not
Hmmm, should work?

Interesting reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast

Will the world die because of the Thread???

Steve, save the world, make us skip page 666!!!! 😀

-- Gianluca Sartori

RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 11

Gianluca Sartori (7/14/2009)
RBarryYoung (7/14/2009)
Paul White (7/14/2009)
Yep. Just couldn't be bothered...I'd gone to the trouble of wrapping it in and thought that would be good enough...seems not
Hmmm, should work?
Interesting reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast
Will the world die because of the Thread???
Steve, save the world, make us skip page 666!!!! 😀

Just change you "posts per page" setting for a week and then switch back. 🙂

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 12

If we are coming up on the number of the beast & the end times & all that because of the Thread, then the four horseman & the anti-guy must be hanging around here too...

Well, that anti-guy is easy. That's Steve.

As to the horsemen, my picks

Conquest - Gus

War - Gail

Famine - Lynn

Death - Jeff, of course

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- Theodore Roosevelt

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LutzM SSC Guru Points: 107049 More actions · Answer 13

GilaMonster (7/13/2009)
Dave Ballantyne (7/13/2009)
You can lead a horse to water but you cant force him to drink
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic751918-8-2.aspx?Update=1
On second thoughts, I think I'm leaving that thread alone...
tatcalltype ='null'
Why.....

He's back... -> http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost752843.aspx

I'm wondering how long his audit procedure is - so we could estimate the expected number of posts... :Whistling:

Lutz
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Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 14

Jeff Moden (7/14/2009)
Matt Miller (7/13/2009)
Jeff Moden (7/13/2009)
Dave Ballantyne (7/13/2009)
You can lead a horse to water but you cant force him to drink
Heh... well... you can if you don't mind getting your lips dirty. I'm going to leave that one alone, though.
Wow - I think you just "cleared the table" with that one....
Heh... I'd forgotten about the "fastest way to clear a table". Still works, though. 😉

I'm pretty sure MS (or any vendor for that matter) will not come up with a way to deprecate that particular method any time soon!

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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?

Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 15

Grant Fritchey (7/14/2009)
If we are coming up on the number of the beast & the end times & all that because of the Thread, then the four horseman & the anti-guy must be hanging around here too...
Well, that anti-guy is easy. That's Steve.
As to the horsemen, my picks
Conquest - Gus
War - Gail
Famine - Lynn
Death - Jeff, of course

Perhaps my machine is already affected, but the Thread seems to have gone underground, since it is no longer returned in the "recent posts" even when it should be.

duh-duh-DUH!

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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?