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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 1

john.arnott (7/28/2009)
Steve Jones - Editor (7/28/2009)
How about advanced pork chop aiming strategies for maximum developer damage?
Just be careful of starting an internecine battle. There are more of we developers in the world than DBAs. :smooooth:

Thanks John for teaching us 3LESP's yet another word: "internecine". Had never heard that one before.

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 2

Jan Van der Eecken (7/28/2009)
john.arnott (7/28/2009)
Steve Jones - Editor (7/28/2009)
How about advanced pork chop aiming strategies for maximum developer damage?
Just be careful of starting an internecine battle. There are more of we developers in the world than DBAs. :smooooth:
Thanks John for teaching us 3LESP's yet another word: "internecine". Had never heard that one before.

Oddly enough, I'm comfortably familiar with "internecine", but haven't the foggiest what "3LESP" means. Doing an online search found 2 documents in a language that looks Germanic to me and a doctoral thesis by an Australian named Lynn Berry, on the subject of linguistic theory. None of those clarified it for me.

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Bruce W Cassidy SSChampion Points: 12668 More actions · Answer 3

GSquared (7/28/2009)
Oddly enough, I'm comfortably familiar with "internecine", but haven't the foggiest what "3LESP" means.

[font="Verdana"]Me either. I'm guessing something like "third level something-or-rather support person/service provider", but who knows...[/font]

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 4

Might be E3L (or ETL, but then that might be cofused as something else), English as 3rd Language; as opposed to ESL, English as Second language.

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 5

Third language ESP?

That's the best I can come up with right now. My tin foil hat is busy elsewhere.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

Jan Van der Eecken (7/28/2009)
Why are you Vaalies always picking on us? :angry: Just coz we don't pick up the phone before 9AM?

Cause you're so laid back you won't bother returning the insults... 😉

(btw, while I've never lived in the western cape, I did spend 4 years in the eastern cape. They're far more laid back that even the most relaxes Captonian)

Just kidding. Hope your Metro Police is aware that we do indeed still have the old and perfectly legal CA license plates and they don't shoot us at first sight. Please let them know that not every Capie is a Gangster emigrating norteastwards.

Don't worry. Local metro police only shoot at civilians when the police are on strike. They haven't done that in just over a year.

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Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 7

Jack Corbett (7/27/2009)
Any of you all making a trip to Disney and interested in speaking let me know.

Anything scheduled for the next week or two ? Might make a nice break from the Disneyana 🙂

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 8

Dave, nothing scheduled until September now. If I'd have known a couple weeks ago we could have maybe gotten something done in August. Our group meets every other month normally, but we have made exceptions when we have a speaker who can make an off month, but not a normal month.

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john.arnott SSChampion Points: 11882 More actions · Answer 9

I'm wondering if I should have chimed in on this problem. Perhaps someone here who's dealt with transferring data from dBase to SQL Server can help. The immediate sticking point seems to be that the source is identifying a column as a date, but it has invalid data (per MS-SQL rules).

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004372 More actions · Answer 10

Steve Jones - Editor (7/28/2009)
How about advanced pork chop aiming strategies for maximum developer damage?

Heh... that's actually just the intermediate course. The advanced course is "How to teach pigs to fly... really, really fast." Post graduate studies include "Maximize the carnage... pork chop acceleration techniques" and "New tricks with a Trebuchet`".

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 11

Steve Jones - Editor (7/28/2009)
How about advanced pork chop aiming strategies for maximum developer damage?

Oi :angry:

I'm a Developer :crying:

Laugh... I nearly became a DBA 😛

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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 12

Lynn Pettis (7/28/2009)
Might be E3L (or ETL, but then that might be cofused as something else), English as 3rd Language; as opposed to ESL, English as Second language.

:ermm: Yes, that's what I meant, English as a third language. Can't even get my acronyms right.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 13

David Burrows (7/29/2009)
Steve Jones - Editor (7/28/2009)
How about advanced pork chop aiming strategies for maximum developer damage?
Oi :angry:
I'm a Developer :crying:

Me too.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 14

*sigh* *twitch*

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 15

Oh, I made the mistake of following up on his thread... encouraging bad behavior. "Bad, Grant, Bad! Down! Stay!"

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