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RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 1

RBarryYoung (4/13/2010)
Grant Fritchey (4/13/2010)
Roy Ernest (4/13/2010)
Where is Gail? I havent seen her... Anyone has any news?
She's doing fine. We've exchanged email a bit. She's busy working on her masters thesis. We'll only see her around intermittently. I've seen her on twitter a few times too. She's just crazy busy right now.
I guess that we can safely assume that it wasn't her that posted those exam questions for their Master's level DB course? 😀

( Heh, hope she doesn't see this.:ermm: Praying to the all-mighty Thread to cover it in avalanch of posts today ... :laugh: )

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 2

RBarryYoung (4/13/2010)
Grant Fritchey (4/13/2010)
Roy Ernest (4/13/2010)
Where is Gail? I havent seen her... Anyone has any news?
She's doing fine. We've exchanged email a bit. She's busy working on her masters thesis. We'll only see her around intermittently. I've seen her on twitter a few times too. She's just crazy busy right now.
I guess that we can safely assume that it wasn't her that posted those exam questions for their Master's level DB course? 😀

I'll go out on a limb and agree that it probably wasn't her.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 3

Grant Fritchey (4/13/2010)
RBarryYoung (4/13/2010)
Grant Fritchey (4/13/2010)
Roy Ernest (4/13/2010)
Where is Gail? I havent seen her... Anyone has any news?
She's doing fine. We've exchanged email a bit. She's busy working on her masters thesis. We'll only see her around intermittently. I've seen her on twitter a few times too. She's just crazy busy right now.
I guess that we can safely assume that it wasn't her that posted those exam questions for their Master's level DB course? 😀
I'll go out on a limb and agree that it probably wasn't her.

That is not much of a limb - more like standing on a tree trunk to say it is not her.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 4

Roy Ernest (4/13/2010)
Where is Gail? I havent seen her... Anyone has any news?

Taking a long, long break from the forums. Stuff's getting on my nerves and it wass getting to the point that I was dreading looking at the day's posts.

Gail Shaw
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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

RBarryYoung (4/13/2010)
Grant Fritchey (4/13/2010)
Roy Ernest (4/13/2010)
Where is Gail? I havent seen her... Anyone has any news?
She's doing fine. We've exchanged email a bit. She's busy working on her masters thesis. We'll only see her around intermittently. I've seen her on twitter a few times too. She's just crazy busy right now.
I guess that we can safely assume that it wasn't her that posted those exam questions for their Master's level DB course? 😀

I'm not even doing databases. 😉 Doing stuff lots more complex, like this - http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2010/01/28/genetic-algorithms/

Last exam I had to sit was 4 years ago and was 'Research in computing' - the theory of research methodology, process, ethics, etc. I can dig up some of the questions from the tutorial for that if you want, they were hairy to say the least... 😀

p.s. if you want to contact me, mail or twitter. I'm not following threads here, not answering PMs.

p.p.s. The posted questions were far from M.Sc level. At best, the person's doing introductory databases as a subject (perhaps a filler/elective) as part of their M.Sc. Or the person's exaggerating, trying to sound more important than they are.

Gail Shaw
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RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 6

Yikes!!! (Exit, stage left ... ) :w00t:

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 7

RBarryYoung (4/13/2010)
Yikes!!! (Exit, stage left ... ) :w00t:

You know something? I had the feeling that Gail would see your post ... 🙂

-Roy

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 8

Steve Jones - Editor (4/13/2010)
C'mon, Roy. They're not jokes. We reported some amazing news that day. Check it out. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/NewsletterArchive/2010/04/01/4786352

That was a good one... I liked it... 🙂

-Roy

RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 9

Roy Ernest (4/13/2010)
RBarryYoung (4/13/2010)
Yikes!!! (Exit, stage left ... ) :w00t:
You know something? I had the feeling that Gail would see your post ... 🙂

Yeah, I also have a feeling that a certain someone told her too. Someone whose fancy space ship might have an unfortunate "accident" in the near future. 😎 If ya know wadda mean.

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 10

That someone has a Black belt... Watch out... :hehe:

-Roy

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 11

Roy Ernest (4/13/2010)
Steve Jones - Editor (4/13/2010)
C'mon, Roy. They're not jokes. We reported some amazing news that day. Check it out. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/NewsletterArchive/2010/04/01/4786352
That was a good one... I liked it... 🙂

I am totally innocent... of this particular crime.

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

I was flying back from Texas on the 1st, and the pilot told everybody that the airport was closed due to an emergency, and we were diverting to Dayton (45 minutes away, more or less). I thought it was a joke right off the bat, but then started second-guessing because he waited a good five minutes before he fessed up.

That was a pretty good one.

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Trey Staker SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4796 More actions · Answer 13

jcrawf02 (4/13/2010)
I was flying back from Texas on the 1st, and the pilot told everybody that the airport was closed due to an emergency, and we were diverting to Dayton (45 minutes away, more or less). I thought it was a joke right off the bat, but then started second-guessing because he waited a good five minutes before he fessed up.
That was a pretty good one.

That was a good one but I think had I been on the plane I would of, at first, been as angry as a few of the people who angrily commented on the QOD the Index article. :w00t:

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Luke L SSC-Dedicated Points: 35547 More actions · Answer 14

yeah you gotta wonder how the FAA would feel about those types of April 1st jokes.

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

I had fun at our last (Apr 8th) PASS Chapter meeting. During the "intro" presentation I just had to let out a "Oh, I almost forgot. Did you know that the next version of SQL will not support NULLs?"

Of course this brought on all kinds of responses like no way, or can't be, what?, .... etc.

I ended it by saying: "You don't believe me? Go to sqlservercentral.com - Editotials (I could see 1 person going there as I was saying it) and look at what Steve Jones posted on ... April ..... 1st" It only took a few seconds before a few people started to laugh.

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