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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 1

CirquedeSQLeil (4/21/2010)
Now, does anybody know how to get rid of morning glory?

:blink:

Check the last definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory_(disambiguation)

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 2

Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (4/21/2010)
Now, does anybody know how to get rid of morning glory?
:blink:
Check the last definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory_(disambiguation)
:blink:

Well I can't see what you're on about. Must be a rare defect of the optic nerve.

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 3

Chris Morris-439714 (4/22/2010)
Well I can't see what you're on about. Must be a rare defect of the optic nerve.

SOM

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 4

Grant Fritchey (4/22/2010)
jcrawf02 (4/21/2010)
Pity that Brent will get kicked out of the MVP club so soon after his MCM... 😛
And now for something completely different...
Any advice on ridding my lawn of the pesky dandelion? Last year I chose to uproot, out of sheer idiocy I suppose, choosing to just extract them as I found them, while realizing I was not solving the problem. (Work harder, not smarter - which by the way, have you guys seen the Scotts article where they dynamited them and they still grew back? classic...)
This year I waffled back and forth between fertilizer that is supposed to kill 'em and just killing 'em, and landed on the side of Roundup. (ahhh...liquid death...)
Course now I gots brown spots. (On some, apparently I was trigger-shy on the rest of them, and they just look kind of depressed instead of dead)
Any thoughts?
Chemical warfare... that or take off & nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

lol thanks. What was that compound that makes sand burn again? :hehe:

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 5

jcrawf02 (4/22/2010)
Grant Fritchey (4/22/2010)
jcrawf02 (4/21/2010)
Pity that Brent will get kicked out of the MVP club so soon after his MCM... 😛
And now for something completely different...
Any advice on ridding my lawn of the pesky dandelion? Last year I chose to uproot, out of sheer idiocy I suppose, choosing to just extract them as I found them, while realizing I was not solving the problem. (Work harder, not smarter - which by the way, have you guys seen the Scotts article where they dynamited them and they still grew back? classic...)
This year I waffled back and forth between fertilizer that is supposed to kill 'em and just killing 'em, and landed on the side of Roundup. (ahhh...liquid death...)
Course now I gots brown spots. (On some, apparently I was trigger-shy on the rest of them, and they just look kind of depressed instead of dead)
Any thoughts?
Chemical warfare... that or take off & nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
lol thanks. What was that compound that makes sand burn again? :hehe:

Thermite?

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For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

Luke L SSC-Dedicated Points: 35547 More actions · Answer 6

CirquedeSQLeil (4/21/2010)
jcrawf02 (4/21/2010)
Pity that Brent will get kicked out of the MVP club so soon after his MCM... 😛
And now for something completely different...
Any advice on ridding my lawn of the pesky dandelion? Last year I chose to uproot, out of sheer idiocy I suppose, choosing to just extract them as I found them, while realizing I was not solving the problem. (Work harder, not smarter - which by the way, have you guys seen the Scotts article where they dynamited them and they still grew back? classic...)
This year I waffled back and forth between fertilizer that is supposed to kill 'em and just killing 'em, and landed on the side of Roundup. (ahhh...liquid death...)
Course now I gots brown spots. (On some, apparently I was trigger-shy on the rest of them, and they just look kind of depressed instead of dead)
Any thoughts?
Scotts usually works for me.
Now, does anybody know how to get rid of morning glory?

Yup Scotts or True Green or whatever seems to work for the Dandelions, either that or pay some hapless youngin to pick them all before they go to seed and make some dandelion wine? You'll want to put anything like this down roughly 2 weeks prior to reseeding your brown spots as most of the Pre/Post emergent weed controllers will kill off your new grass as well.

As for morning glory, and this probably isn't the best advice given that it's Earth day here in the US, but... your local big box hardware store (Lowes, HD, whatever you guys have out west) sells stuff that specifically says on the label, "Guaranteed to kill anything green". While I've never used it on Morning glory, I've treated Creeping trumpet vines with it with some success. basically I dug out as much of the root as possible then poured it directly on the tap root. The next year a couple of shoots came up which also got dowsed with the stuff and I've been rid of it ever since. You will have to replant any grass that is around it though...

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 7

Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
Chris Morris-439714 (4/22/2010)
Well I can't see what you're on about. Must be a rare defect of the optic nerve.
SOM

Som, an alternative name for the Hungarian wine grape Furmint?

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 8

Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
Chris Morris-439714 (4/22/2010)
Well I can't see what you're on about. Must be a rare defect of the optic nerve.
SOM

White phosphorous? I'm not sure, that could be overkill.

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 9

Gianluca Sartori (4/21/2010)
I've seen even worse things in my app (Visual Basic):
Public const SC AS String = "'" 'Yes, you got it right, it's a single quote
....
' Everywhere in the code at least 1000 times:
sql = "SELECT someField FROM someTable WHERE someField = " & SC & variable & SC
Nice, isn't it?

I've seen stuff like that many times.

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Tom257 SSChampion Points: 11543 More actions · Answer 10

jcrawf02 (4/21/2010)
Pity that Brent will get kicked out of the MVP club so soon after his MCM... 😛
And now for something completely different...
Any advice on ridding my lawn of the pesky dandelion? Last year I chose to uproot, out of sheer idiocy I suppose, choosing to just extract them as I found them, while realizing I was not solving the problem. (Work harder, not smarter - which by the way, have you guys seen the Scotts article where they dynamited them and they still grew back? classic...)
This year I waffled back and forth between fertilizer that is supposed to kill 'em and just killing 'em, and landed on the side of Roundup. (ahhh...liquid death...)
Course now I gots brown spots. (On some, apparently I was trigger-shy on the rest of them, and they just look kind of depressed instead of dead)
Any thoughts?

Looking at my lawn with a view to mowing last weekend, and I noticed where a firework had fallen, and lain there since bonfire night, it had killed off a couple of dandylions - killed the grass too.

When I was a kid I spent an afternoon blowtorching the centre of all the danylions in the lawn - but I can't remember if they came back or not, but it was fun.

But now they're all in flower my wife won't let me use the Roundup - which kills the grass just as effectively as it kills dandylions, if not more quickly so.

spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 11

Jack Corbett (4/22/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (4/21/2010)
I've seen even worse things in my app (Visual Basic):
Public const SC AS String = "'" 'Yes, you got it right, it's a single quote
....
' Everywhere in the code at least 1000 times:
sql = "SELECT someField FROM someTable WHERE someField = " & SC & variable & SC
Nice, isn't it?
I've seen stuff like that many times.

It's strange to note that this doesn't diturb any of you. I simply hate it.

-- Gianluca Sartori

Tom257 SSChampion Points: 11543 More actions · Answer 12

CirquedeSQLeil (4/21/2010)
jcrawf02 (4/21/2010)
Pity that Brent will get kicked out of the MVP club so soon after his MCM... 😛
And now for something completely different...
Any advice on ridding my lawn of the pesky dandelion? Last year I chose to uproot, out of sheer idiocy I suppose, choosing to just extract them as I found them, while realizing I was not solving the problem. (Work harder, not smarter - which by the way, have you guys seen the Scotts article where they dynamited them and they still grew back? classic...)
This year I waffled back and forth between fertilizer that is supposed to kill 'em and just killing 'em, and landed on the side of Roundup. (ahhh...liquid death...)
Course now I gots brown spots. (On some, apparently I was trigger-shy on the rest of them, and they just look kind of depressed instead of dead)
Any thoughts?
Scotts usually works for me.
Now, does anybody know how to get rid of morning glory?

Why would you want to?

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 13

Chris Morris-439714 (4/22/2010)
Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
Chris Morris-439714 (4/22/2010)
Well I can't see what you're on about. Must be a rare defect of the optic nerve.
SOM
Som, an alternative name for the Hungarian wine grape Furmint?

SOM = Spewing On Monitor (with a mouthful of the beverage of your choice)

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 14

Gianluca Sartori (4/22/2010)
Jack Corbett (4/22/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (4/21/2010)
I've seen even worse things in my app (Visual Basic):
Public const SC AS String = "'" 'Yes, you got it right, it's a single quote
....
' Everywhere in the code at least 1000 times:
sql = "SELECT someField FROM someTable WHERE someField = " & SC & variable & SC
Nice, isn't it?
I've seen stuff like that many times.
It's strange to note that this doesn't diturb any of you. I simply hate it.

Oh I hate it, but it's just one more thing on the pile. Try looking at nHibernate queries for a little while. This will look positively intelligent.

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- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Tom257 SSChampion Points: 11543 More actions · Answer 15

Gianluca Sartori (4/22/2010)
Jack Corbett (4/22/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (4/21/2010)
I've seen even worse things in my app (Visual Basic):
Public const SC AS String = "'" 'Yes, you got it right, it's a single quote
<snipped>
Nice, isn't it?
I've seen stuff like that many times.
It's strange to note that this doesn't diturb any of you. I simply hate it.

I wouldn't write it in new code, but Its perfectly reasonable to leave it in existing programs. Everyone had to learn sometime, but consider this - the developer may first have used a perfectly reasonable Public const DC = """" As String in VB6 - then simply copied the idea into .NET. Mixing a few metaphors: Think of the hoops your code used to jump through before you got sliced bread.