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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 1

GilaMonster (10/29/2009)
CirquedeSQLeil (10/29/2009)
How do you find the time? School, articles, SSC, writing books, work...
School?
It's 11pm and I'm just starting on a report that'll likely take 2-3 hours. Answer your question?;-)
Not writing any books at the moment. The MVP one was written last year.
These days it's 8am-midnight (or later) solid at the computer (and that's not playing games) Overcommitted? Yeah, just slightly...

Wait, sounds like somebody I know (the hours at least - 07:30 - 01:00 typically).

Well good luck.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

Bob Hovious 24601 (10/29/2009)
.... not to mention practicing martial arts and conquering the galaxy.

Galaxy unfortunately remains unconquered. Haven't touched that game since I mentioned it here. As for martial arts, well, let's not talk about my attendance lately.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 3

Alvin Ramard (10/29/2009)
CirquedeSQLeil (10/29/2009)
GilaMonster (10/29/2009)
Woot.
...
...
My Ex's would probably answer: "She's a woman. She knows how to multi-task."
😉

S.O.M.:-D

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736632 More actions · Answer 4

I think Gail is like me, running from thing to thing, not sure how all the plates are staying in the air.

At least I have kids to balance things out at times. Course, them being snowed in today, they are making it hard for me to work.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398913 More actions · Answer 5

GilaMonster (10/29/2009)
CirquedeSQLeil (10/29/2009)
How do you find the time? School, articles, SSC, writing books, work...
School?
It's 11pm and I'm just starting on a report that'll likely take 2-3 hours. Answer your question?;-)
Not writing any books at the moment. The MVP one was written last year.
These days it's 8am-midnight (or later) solid at the computer (and that's not playing games) Overcommitted? Yeah, just slightly...

Nah, you're only overcommitted when you give up sleep entirely. As long as you're still sleeping there's still time to do something else.

"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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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 6

Steve Jones - Editor (10/29/2009)
I think Gail is like me, running from thing to thing, not sure how all the plates are staying in the air.
At least I have kids to balance things out at times. Course, them being snowed in today, they are making it hard for me to work.

I wanted a snow day, unfortunately most of the snow stayed north of Monument this time. hope you get dug out soon. 😉

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736632 More actions · Answer 7

Snow day is worse here. The kids are home, need to work around them. I've been trying to edit articles around a game of Life, one of Chess, and I've dodged Disney Scene It so far, but I think my time is short.

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

GilaMonster (10/29/2009)
CirquedeSQLeil (10/29/2009)
How do you find the time? School, articles, SSC, writing books, work...
School?
It's 11pm and I'm just starting on a report that'll likely take 2-3 hours. Answer your question?;-)
Not writing any books at the moment. The MVP one was written last year.
These days it's 8am-midnight (or later) solid at the computer (and that's not playing games) Overcommitted? Yeah, just slightly...

Sounds like the Summit will be restful for you. I guess I've just never been ambitious enough.

Jack Corbett
Consultant - Straight Path Solutions
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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 9

CirquedeSQLeil (10/29/2009)
How do you find the time? School, articles, SSC, writing books, work...

A former boss of mine used to say... if 24 hrs a day isn't enough, work nights.

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004436 More actions · Answer 10

Lynn Pettis (10/29/2009)
What is it with some people? I have seen sevarl threads where people are addressing others on their SSC Title instead of their forum name. like GSquared.

Same attention to detail they give to their code... 😉

--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
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004436 More actions · Answer 11

Silverfox (10/29/2009)
Looking at the chapter descriptions, Dont see Jeff down there. or am I missing something?

Nope... I've just been so busy I don't have the time it takes to write a check never mind stuff for a book. Might sound a little corny but I'd rather write for my "home"... SSC. 😉

... speaking of which...

The long overdue rewritten "Running Total" article is due to pop up on the SSC home page on Tuesday, November 10th... lots of new stuff. I have to start work on the follow up that shows some other practical uses.

--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)

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 12

Woot - get to read another article by Jeff.

Are there any pork chops in it?

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 13

Would someone be willing to keep an eye on this thread?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic811359-266-1.aspx

I'm not sure at this point how big a problem it is, but I'm leaving for the airport in 3 hours and am unlikely to check back until tomorrow evening.

If it's a nonclustered index, it should just be drop index, create index. If it's in the cluster/heap it's repair or restore. Might need DBCC Page to get the object/index id.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 14

Have a safe trip, Gail! And enjoy PASS.

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 15

GSquared (10/29/2009)
But, as it is, both are incomprehensible strings to most people, so they pick one, and sometimes it's the wrong one.

No, that's the post....:w00t:

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"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."