Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Can someone clarify why you should do this?

    -Roy

  • Steve Jones - Editor (10/5/2009)


    I miss anything? Just cranky old guys and gals complaining?

    The post is a little self promotion, but I'm more willing to tolerate authors promoting themselves than companies. Might be a little hypocritical, but that's how I feel.

    In case you wonder where I've been, this has been my project for the last 3 days: http://twitpic.com/kbfy1

    I agree with your take on the forum post. I can choose not to read that post.

    Bathroom floor looks good, what do you have left to do?

  • Roy Ernest (10/5/2009)


    Can someone clarify why you should do this?

    Nope I have the same viewpoint as yourself. seems too heavy handed to set that at server level, especially considering the op's question is not that straight forward.

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  • Thanks Silverfox, I felt that it was strange that he would suggest doing this just because it worked for him in one scenario. A sledgehammer approach is what I thought as well after seeing the post.

    -Roy

  • Steve Jones - Editor (10/5/2009)


    I miss anything? Just cranky old guys and gals complaining?

    The post is a little self promotion, but I'm more willing to tolerate authors promoting themselves than companies. Might be a little hypocritical, but that's how I feel.

    In case you wonder where I've been, this has been my project for the last 3 days: http://twitpic.com/kbfy1

    Excellent work. Well done.

    "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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  • Steve Jones - Editor (10/5/2009)


    I miss anything? Just cranky old guys and gals complaining?

    Ehh? What's that? Speak-up youngun, we can't hear ya!

    😀

    [font="Times New Roman"]-- RBarryYoung[/font], [font="Times New Roman"] (302)375-0451[/font] blog: MovingSQL.com, Twitter: @RBarryYoung[font="Arial Black"]
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  • Silverfox (10/5/2009)


    Roy Ernest (10/5/2009)


    Can someone clarify why you should do this?

    Nope I have the same viewpoint as yourself. seems too heavy handed to set that at server level, especially considering the op's question is not that straight forward.

    Restricting MAXDOP server-wide is actually an SOP recommendation from MS. You can still override it in individual queries. But a more fine-grained/better approach is probably to just raise the 'cost threshold of parallelism' anyway.

    [font="Times New Roman"]-- RBarryYoung[/font], [font="Times New Roman"] (302)375-0451[/font] blog: MovingSQL.com, Twitter: @RBarryYoung[font="Arial Black"]
    Proactive Performance Solutions, Inc.
    [/font]
    [font="Verdana"] "Performance is our middle name."[/font]

  • Lost thur to errands and my wife's truck tires, but I need to cut 6 small trim pieces for the edges along the wall and then glue about 12 tiles down and grout the 2nd half. Going to take a break here soon to do that.

    97 sq ft of tile gone down this weekend compare to only 3 cuts on my hands

    Sheesh!

  • Steve Jones - Editor (10/5/2009)


    Lost thur to errands and my wife's truck tires, but I need to cut 6 small trim pieces for the edges along the wall and then glue about 12 tiles down and grout the 2nd half. Going to take a break here soon to do that.

    97 sq ft of tile gone down this weekend compare to only 3 cuts on my hands

    Sheesh!

    Sounds like your winning, give us a tile by tile breakdown later on 😛

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  • I think I'm winning, but my back and knee might disagree.

    I'll blog the whole thing later. It's a good project, and easy to do if you don't mind a little work. I think I am paying about 1/2 the cost of hiring someone and getting it done as well. Tiling isn't hard, just time consuming.

  • I have a whole drive way to do... I have no clue if I can do it.....;-) Not strong and No Stamina...:hehe: Getting old you see...:hehe:

    -Roy

  • Steve Jones - Editor (10/5/2009)


    I think I'm winning, but my back and knee might disagree.

    I feel your pain.

    I've just finished doing the entire house over the period of about 18 months - now the wife doesn't have anything left to bust my balls over 😀

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  • Steve Jones - Editor (10/5/2009)


    I think I am paying about 1/2 the cost of hiring someone and getting it done as well.

    Well, this works when you wouldn't be earning more spending those hours in your usual job... That's why I try to do myself everything I can! 🙂

    Nice job, BTW!

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • Matt Whitfield (10/5/2009)


    Steve Jones - Editor (10/5/2009)


    I think I'm winning, but my back and knee might disagree.

    I feel your pain.

    I've just finished doing the entire house over the period of about 18 months - now the wife doesn't have anything left to bust my balls over 😀

    Somehow I think she'll find something! 😀

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

  • tosscrosby-60625 (10/5/2009)


    Somehow I think she'll find something! 😀

    Tell me about it!! :w00t:

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