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

Alvin Ramard (1/25/2010)
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?

Yeah, I caught the other one and posted the standard 'don't crosspost' reply.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

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. Hope it was restful, peaceful, refreshing, and enjoyable.

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

Couldn't help myself on that one. Let's see if the OP can go and figure it out now.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736280 More actions · Answer 4

It was restful, but I'm glad to be back. Tired of being a slug in a beach chair.

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

You know, sometimes I feel like recommending people use MS Access. (I have a headache...where's my sledgehammer?)

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

Think I've found the crystal ball... Doesn't seem to be showing much though.

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GilaMonster (1/25/2010)
Think I've found the crystal ball... Doesn't seem to be showing much though.

Thanks Gail - now that is really useful. 😀

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

for all the threadheads - some may have noticed already, I have created a twitter account (sqlrnnr). I will probably write a blog post about the reasons why real soon.

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 9

GilaMonster (1/25/2010)
Think I've found the crystal ball... Doesn't seem to be showing much though.

Actually, it seems to be saying the answer is cloud computing...

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Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 10

Having been a newbie, and posting bone headed questions in the past, this one really got to me

Thanks, but that doesn't really help me at all. I think that I would have to combine two of the functions that are listed in the link.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic853270-1292-1.aspx#bm853312

But Michael Valentine Jones came to the OPs rescue, just hope the OP is smart enough to know there are more 3 quarters in a year.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 11

Hello...

Is this thing on?

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 12

So since cloud computing is the answer, do you (anyone, not just Gus) agree with this statement?

Clouds push complexity to the background and allow users to focus on what really matters: functionality and costs.

Seems like an odd claim to me? (but what do I know)

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The Dixie Flatline (1/25/2010)
Hello...
Hello...
Is this thing on?

Norm! 😀

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The Dixie Flatline (1/25/2010)
Hello...
Hello...
Is this thing on?

Nope. Try the turbo button.

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

The Dixie Flatline (1/25/2010)
Hello...
Hello...
Is this thing on?

Can you hear me now?

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