Are the posted questions getting worse?
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Bob Hovious-584421 (9/19/2009)
Is that like a pita bite?
That looks more like mega bites.
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Mega pita bites?
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Bob Hovious-584421 (9/20/2009)
Mega pita bites?Yeah.
That reminds me. What's for lunch?
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Alvin Ramard (9/19/2009)
Jeff Moden (9/19/2009)
I had a peta byte once... Some antibiotics and a tetanus shot took care of the problem. 😛Jeff, don't you know how to spell?
What you had was a peta bite; not peta byte.
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I'm not so sure about that... the animal was carrying a crack-berry. 😛
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________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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Anyone else want to weigh in on this one?
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bitbucket-25253 (9/19/2009)
Completely off the THREADs normal discussions but I thought might be of interest to those who frequent the THREAD.I decided to revisit Steve's editorial Moore's' Law
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68112/
And then thought about the last meeting of the Ohio North SQL Server Special Interest Group and how the presentation "Building Multi-Terabyte Data Warehouses with SQL Doug Lanman - Microsoft" fitted into Steve's thoughts and the comments in the forum discussion.
I suggest that you visit this site http://www.bennettadelson.com/presentations.aspx?sig=sql and download the Power Point presentation of that meeting. (No password / special permission required to access the site) to learn about the new technologies "Fast Track" and "Madison" introduced in Feb. 2009 both using specialized hardware and SQL Server 2008.
Although not included in the Power Point presentation Doug Lanman did comment that with the speed of these systems indexes are not useful.
All the slides are interesting but these stood out to me:
Slide 19 states that 625K rows were selected from a 1 trillion row table in .11 seconds (Yes that is 11 hundredths of one second).
Slide 23 states that Madison will scale to 1PB (Petabyte) which is 1,000 terabytes, or 1,000,000 gigabytes
Slide 20 Is Microsofts request for partners for Beta testing, listing what MS will supply and what the partner need supply. Perhaps an opportunity for some firms whose DBA's frequent the THREAD
Steve, please remove this post, I'm offended by the actual content being discussed in The Thread. 😉
Bit, you're a Buckeye?
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Grant, any guidelines on writing the abstract for an article? I think I may have an idea for an article I'd consider writing, but need a little guidance on writing the abstract now. And yes, your replies did help spark the though process some.
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Lynn Pettis (9/21/2009)
Grant, any guidelines on writing the abstract for an article? I think I may have an idea for an article I'd consider writing, but need a little guidance on writing the abstract now. And yes, your replies did help spark the though process some.EXCELLENT!
The idea of the abstract is just to communicate the idea behind the article. What's it going to be about. Why would someone read it. What sorts of things will they learn from it. That sort of thing. The idea is to communicate the idea of the article, just enough, so that I know what you're going to be writing about and can judge if it's a good fit for what we're doing. The goal is a 2000-4000 word article, which isn't all that small, so the abstract has to convey what the article will be like. But I only want one or two paragraphs because I don't want tons of extra to read and I don't want to burden the writers with delivering half the article just to have me reject it (only two rejections so far).
Don't worry about it though. I'll work with you on the abstract if it needs it.
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Sorry, you'll have to live with real technical content in addition to all the complaints, vents, rants, and recommendations.
Besides, if I have to see Lynn's soccer talk here, you'll have to deal with actual info.
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Steve Jones - Editor (9/21/2009)
Besides, if I have to see Lynn's soccer talk here, you'll have to deal with actual info.😀
Btw. nice start of the season for the Broncos, and what a game it was from NYG vs. Cowboys, if Tony Romo didn't make those 3 bad throws Cowboys would definitely won.
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Is it too early to think my Forty-niners are back on the road to respectability? Knocked off the NFC champ Cardinals last week, then convincingly beat the Seahawks yesterday. They don't quite look like Super Bowl material just yet, but I like to think their doormat days are behind them.
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Haven't finished the Cowboys game yet, but Romo definitely looked off. :(, and that's my team. Good to see the Broncos win, but I suspect they might go quite a few weeks without winning another.
49ers did look good. Gore makes them dangerous.
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I love watching the Broncos play, win or loss. Of course I like better when they win, but it always gets the heart racing watching them snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. At least they haven't had that, yet.
As for soccer, hey, it is a terrific sport. Too bad most people don't realize that soccer, as opposed to most other sports, is a players game, not a coaches game.
Had a good start for AYSO this past Saturday even if we were short refs. My youngest actually got to center 2 U-8 games. She was excited!
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Grant,
One very important question, copyright on the article, who owns it?
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