March 31, 2016 at 8:09 pm
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SnowCrash for SQL Server
April 1, 2016 at 12:17 am
I think that Virtual Reality (VR) is more likely to be the equivalent of a report than the data itself. Then again if you can explore the data in new ways then, perhaps (let's call it speculative posting), there will be new ways for data scientists to explore raw data.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
April 1, 2016 at 12:35 am
Steve your last April Fool was for SQL Server on Linux!
If you can imagine it then it can be built
April 1, 2016 at 12:50 am
From the article:
there's a project underway to bring more virtual reality to our everyday world
Don't need more of that. I already have managers and users whose perception of reality is virtual at best. 😛
And, I agree with David. What kind of a crystal ball do you actually have? 😉
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
April 1, 2016 at 1:34 am
there was a bored Unix sysadmin back in the late 90's who managed to cob up a Doom WAD that would represent server processes in Doom, in various guises/monsters, depending on things about the process status. to kill a wayward or annoying user process, the admin ran thru the levels, chose a weapon and terminated the process, once it was found in the area...
published a paper on it too...
April 1, 2016 at 1:48 am
corey lawson (4/1/2016)
there was a bored Unix sysadmin back in the late 90's who managed to cob up a Doom WAD that would represent server processes in Doom, in various guises/monsters, depending on things about the process status. to kill a wayward or annoying user process, the admin ran thru the levels, chose a weapon and terminated the process, once it was found in the area...published a paper on it too...
Now that is outside of the box thinking!!!
...any idea how to get hold of that paper?
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
April 1, 2016 at 1:49 am
Your view of flying through the SQL Server reminds me of that scene in Jurassic Park where the kid is doing a similar thing through a filesystem structure. "I know this - this is Unix!". Bleah.
Gary Varga (4/1/2016)
I think that Virtual Reality (VR) is more likely to be the equivalent of a report than the data itself. Then again if you can explore the data in new ways then, perhaps (let's call it speculative posting), there will be new ways for data scientists to explore raw data.
This idea I like.
Thomas Rushton
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April 1, 2016 at 5:28 am
Why am I picturing some poor sysadmin coming into work, sitting down at his desk, pulling on his VR headset, so he can virtually walk the server stacks?
The only difference being instead of having one monitor for all the servers, he "touches" a server in the VR to pull up the status or the console?
Truthfully, I can't think of an advantage to monitoring / managing servers (SQL or otherwise) via VR, that we can't already do with a plain-old flat monitor and keyboard. That's not to say that at some point, you won't be doing it, just that I don't see much of an advantage to it...
Where I do see advantages to it, would be in CAD-type applications. Get in there and see how the parts go together, tweak the lines of that new vehicle, "see" how that new building will affect the city skyline, or walk the client through their shiny new offices before the foundation is even put down...
April 1, 2016 at 6:23 am
The other weekend I was around a friend's house and his son was wearing a VR headset. As he moved his head around and mumbled to himself I though (polite version) "plonker". Can't see myself being an early uptaker of VR technology!
April 1, 2016 at 6:56 am
If you liked Snow Crash you should check out Cryptonomicon or Anathem.
Stephenson is great.
April 1, 2016 at 7:11 am
David.Poole (4/1/2016)
Steve your last April Fool was for SQL Server on Linux!If you can imagine it then it can be built
Not the last one, but certainly one from the past.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Service+Broker+(SSSB)/124152/
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2014/108318/
April 1, 2016 at 7:13 am
sschoepfer (4/1/2016)
If you liked Snow Crash you should check out Cryptonomicon or Anathem.Stephenson is great.
Cryponomicon is great. Anathem, not so much.
April 1, 2016 at 7:16 am
LOL. April Fools, eh?
Anathem was tough to wrap my mind around.
I loved Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and am reading Seveneves now.
April 1, 2016 at 8:10 am
Remember when Minority Report came out and everyone wanted to wave their arms around for doing sysadmin work?
Well, myself, I'm still on a keyboard.
VR definitely has its uses, I've heard it can be extremely effective in pain management for severe burn victims, I think I heard it is also showing promise for treating PTSD. But sysadmin work? Hopefully I'll be fully retired before that becomes reality. I have no interest in VR games, for that matter I don't own a game console, though I'd love to have a Wii.
Why yes, I am indeed a curmudgeon (in many ways).
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April 1, 2016 at 8:15 am
I can see the potential value for an interactive "3D" view of a database's schema, storage allocation, topology, etc. displayed on existing flat screens. Maybe a SSRS or PowerView report that's implemented as a SSMS plugin. However, as for a full-on virtual reality experience as seen through Optimus Prime goggles, I'm not sure it would add value.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
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