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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

Gianluca Sartori (1/25/2010)
Did you use your crystal ball, Gail? 🙂
Sorry for the broken link, I'll fix it.

Didn't need to (and I think Grant has the crystal ball this week). I took one look at that question earlier, sniggered and closed the tab.

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 2

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January 25, 2010 at 6:18 am

#1108104

That really was a strange one....lol

-Roy

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster (1/25/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (1/25/2010)
Did you use your crystal ball, Gail? 🙂
Sorry for the broken link, I'll fix it.
Didn't need to (and I think Grant has the crystal ball this week). I took one look at that question earlier, sniggered and closed the tab.

It must be lost in transit because I don't have it either.

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 4

Grant Fritchey (1/25/2010)
GilaMonster (1/25/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (1/25/2010)
Did you use your crystal ball, Gail? 🙂
Sorry for the broken link, I'll fix it.
Didn't need to (and I think Grant has the crystal ball this week). I took one look at that question earlier, sniggered and closed the tab.
It must be lost in transit because I don't have it either.

So I guess it was tarot cards 😀

With my divinatory powers I can see he will never get an answer from me...

-- Gianluca Sartori

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736280 More actions · Answer 5

Looks like The Thread is alive and well. Good to be back and hoping everyone behaved over the last week.

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 6

Steve Jones - Editor (1/25/2010)
Looks like The Thread is alive and well. Good to be back and hoping everyone behaved over the last week.

Welcome back Steve. I hope you both had a great time away.

... everyone behave? Of course. What else would you excpect? As far as I know, no OPs where hurt, well at least not seriously, while you were gone.

🙂

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 7

Steve Jones - Editor (1/25/2010)
Looks like The Thread is alive and well. Good to be back and hoping everyone behaved over the last week.

Shoot, he's back early. quick, everyone clean up... get rid of all those posts flaming the OPs.

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john.arnott SSChampion Points: 11882 More actions · Answer 8

Gianluca Sartori (1/25/2010)
Grant Fritchey (1/25/2010)
GilaMonster (1/25/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (1/25/2010)
Did you use your crystal ball, Gail? 🙂
Sorry for the broken link, I'll fix it.
Didn't need to (and I think Grant has the crystal ball this week). I took one look at that question earlier, sniggered and closed the tab.
It must be lost in transit because I don't have it either.
So I guess it was tarot cards 😀
With my divinatory powers I can see he will never get an answer from me...

One thing that thread does for me is make me even more impressed with Peso. His SQL knowledge and creativity were already well-known, but how many others around SSC also speak fluent "PhD-ese"?

spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 9

One strange thing is that I keep on being redirected to THE THREAD when I click on the link to the PhD-ese thread, but if I edit the original post I see the correct url.

Mysterious behaviour.:crazy:

-- Gianluca Sartori

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 10

Gianluca Sartori (1/25/2010)
One strange thing is that I keep on being redirected to THE THREAD when I click on the link to the PhD-ese thread, but if I edit the original post I see the correct url.
Mysterious behaviour.:crazy:

It's the Thread trying to protect you. 🙂

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 11

Steve Jones - Editor (1/25/2010)
Looks like The Thread is alive and well. Good to be back and hoping everyone behaved over the last week.

Well, we always "behave", it's just how we behave that might be questionable.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 12

Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic853117-145-1.aspx

Exterminate! Exterminate!

Gail Shaw
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homebrew01 SSC Guru Points: 55548 More actions · Answer 13

Please tell me everything:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic852819-146-1.aspx

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 14

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 15

GilaMonster (1/25/2010)
Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic853117-145-1.aspx
Exterminate! Exterminate!

It's also posted under another name.

Don't OPs know that the speed of the response is inversely porportional to the cube of the number of postings?

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