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Steve Jones - Editor (4/1/2010)
I had to disclaim it at the end. Otherwise I suspect that there would be a lot of broken monitors, and maybe a few calls from MS legal as well. Same for the index one.
Glad you liked it. Took a little time to figure out what might be a good joke.

Very good joke. I think I would have taken the risk (insert devil emoticon here).

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Ronald Bruintjes (4/1/2010)
Arjun-501520 (3/31/2010)
Brilliant! you had me there for a second.
The 1/1/1900 was the trigger however. 😛

Being a mainframe (UNISYS) girl, 1/1/1900 was completely logical. UNISYS has a datetime field that is based on that.

Good one. I thought I was done w/April fools jokes after listening to 'April Fools' every minute during the drive to take my 6 year old to school. B.

franp-424154 SSC Veteran Points: 243 More actions · Answer 3

That was great!

And we should have known better it being April 1st and all. This would have been a very enjoyable "Candid Camera" segment. It would have been hilarious to have seen the reactions across the globe. I know my heartrate was zooming.

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Steve Jones - Editor (4/1/2010)
I thought the Linux one was old, though perhaps it may be recycled in the future. 😉

Hey, I just heard that SQL 2008R2 will run on the iPad. 😛

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Phillip - Texas SSC-Addicted Points: 415 More actions · Answer 5

So here I sit reading the replies.."ha ha you got me" etc. when all of a sudden, what? "...the index one was good one too." That was a joke?

Recall the article about hunter gatherer? Throw out anything you find on the Internet that was keyboarded (as opposed to penned") on 4/1.

What percentage of the content of a technical article gets read? I didn't see that part about "...do not use for any purpose...."

Yeah, I also fell for the "PFC Acevedo, go get me the ID Ten Tango form, pronto!" bit too, 15 years ago. As a Sgt. I paid it forward and had others go find me a "box of grid squares."

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135355 More actions · Answer 6

very good one too .... even rocks the foundations of any RDBMS :w00t:

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haha good one! Had me going for a minute

Happy Easter too if that's your thing!

crookj SSChampion Points: 14075 More actions · Answer 8

What a great way to start out the day! I could not stop laughing! Put my name in the sucker category also!

This by far is the POST OF THE YEAR!

Joe

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NF Scott Smith (4/1/2010)
Happy Easter too if that's your thing!

Well put, and very thoughtful.

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Mad Myche SSCommitted Points: 1593 More actions · Answer 10

You actually had me worried for a moment.

I have inherited some tables that use NULL as a 3rd value on Bit fields

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Daniel Bowlin SSC-Dedicated Points: 34566 More actions · Answer 11

I have enjoyed all the articles/editorials/forum content today that I think we ought to come up with a SQL fools day. We can make it on October 1st. That way we can have 2 days of satire and fun.:w00t:

Thanks for a brilliant post and a great day!

thomas.lamp Newbie Points: 2 More actions · Answer 12

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April 1, 2010 at 3:06 pm

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Yikes -- you totally had me.

Phillip - Texas SSC-Addicted Points: 415 More actions · Answer 13

Even when I was brand new, I never made the mistake of entering the string "null" when I meant to set the field to NULL.

sing4you SSCrazy Points: 2984 More actions · Answer 14

Mad Myche (4/1/2010)
You actually had me worried for a moment.
I have inherited some tables that use NULL as a 3rd value on Bit fields

I hate when people do that.

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Phillip - Texas (4/1/2010)
So here I sit reading the replies.."ha ha you got me" etc. when all of a sudden, what? "...the index one was good one too." That was a joke?
Recall the article about hunter gatherer? Throw out anything you find on the Internet that was keyboarded (as opposed to penned") on 4/1.
What percentage of the content of a technical article gets read? I didn't see that part about "...do not use for any purpose...."
Yeah, I also fell for the "PFC Acevedo, go get me the ID Ten Tango form, pronto!" bit too, 15 years ago. As a Sgt. I paid it forward and had others go find me a "box of grid squares."
Happy Maundy Thursday.

and if you'd been Navy, as your ship docked, you would have been sent to get fifty yards of shore line.