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March 8, 2008 at 8:25 pm

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 1

Nicely done! Podcast is pretty darned cool, too!

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

majorbloodnock SSCrazy Eights Points: 9389 More actions · Answer 2

I forget which CEO of which Japanese company (suspect Honda) said this, but a memorable quote for me is, "Doing business is like shaving. No matter how well you do it, tomorrow you'll get up and have to do it again."

Of course, I have a beard, but I like the quote anyway 😉

Semper in excretia, suus solum profundum variat

Anders Pedersen SSChampion Points: 11410 More actions · Answer 3

I feel for you! In a previous life I managed a dairy operation... trying to give meds orally to cows can be, a chanllenge, to say the least. Just pray your horses do not get mastitis....

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 4

Oral meds? Lucky... at least they weren't supositories 😉

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 5

Yeah, not sure I'd do suppositories!

Feeding again this week, though no meds. I do have one locked up, so it's plenty of scooping action.

Charles Kincaid SSChampion Points: 13593 More actions · Answer 6

Routine? Normal? Daily grind? I have not been anywhere close to those concepts for years! When my customers need something they need it now! (Side Note: For those in the U.S. you've been seeing those ads: "It's my money and I need it now!")

I've began to plan crises. It's easier on management and takes the pressure off of sales. They can shoot from the hip and let us tech services geeks hammer out the details. Why should they do anything different? :rolleyes:

If I were going for routine I could always say, "Paper or plastic?" or "do you want fries with that?" I could always go back to running an insurance agency. I sort of like the adventure. Software is not boring. I know, personally, two of the three guys that invented the Top 40 radio format. But "time, temperature, and play the records"? Not for me.

Don't get me wrong. The folks that do the routine jobs are just as valuable and every bit as worthy. Often we take them for granted. But these are the people who keep the lights on, the water flowing, and the garbage gone. Never forget that. It's just my job to make the tools that they use. It's my job to make their job easier.

ATBCharles Kincaid

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 7

glad to hear someone likes the chaotic atmosphere of development. I definitely prefer the routine, mostly boring, occassionally exciting work.

kestak-508197 SSC Eights! Points: 917 More actions · Answer 8

Greetings,

I know this comment is not related to SQL Server, but it may help some people with their small and bigger "pets". Too many times I see people strugling (Even vets!!!) to give medication.

For the dogs, when you need to give a pill, just dip it into peanut butter or fruit jam. I still have to find a dog who will not eat the pill right through.

For the horse, just take an apple, cut it in half and put the pills in the apple half (Most the the horses will eat the alf apple, but with a full apple, they make drop some pieces out of their mouth.

Thank you

MBA

MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD, MCITP, IBM DB2 Expert, I-Net+, CIW

Proud member of the NRA

-Anti-gun laws prevent law abiding citizens to buy guns and defend themselves against bad guys who do not care about the law and get their gun illegally.

- Democracy is 2 wolves and one sheep talking about their next dinner. Freedom is 2 wolves and one armed sheep with a .357 magnum talking about their next dinner.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 9

My one dog doesn't like peanut butter. First dog I've seen like that. American cheese folder around the pill works well.

giving a horse aspirin is a pasty material. We've tried some stuff, including apples, and they'll skip it because of the bitter taste. Some times you need to just shove it in there 🙂

Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 10

Steve Jones - Editor (3/10/2008)
My one dog doesn't like peanut butter. First dog I've seen like that. American cheese folder around the pill works well.
giving a horse aspirin is a pasty material. We've tried some stuff, including apples, and they'll skip it because of the bitter taste. Some times you need to just shove it in there 🙂

Mine's Ninja dog. Pretty much anything you wrap or hide the pill in - she will lick the pill clean and spit it at you... (wagging her tail and telling you she didn't fall for it). She opens doors too! So - the only way to make it work is the "frontal assault": pry jaw open, put pill in the back of the throat, close, and rub throat until she swallows.

By the way Steve - you haven't mentioned the name of that SQL MVP standing next to you in the picture today?

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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 11

I had a dog like Matt's... the only way to get her to take meds was with a small enough piece of steak for her to swallow in one gulp... had to be real careful putting the pill into a cut in the steak. If you accidently touched the pill to the outside of the steak, she'd spit the whole thing out. Peanut butter didn't work... did like Matt's except she'd spit it out with enough PB on it that she never did get to taste it.

The absolute best thing I found was a small ball of bacon grease... just set it on top of the dry food in a bowl...

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

kestak-508197 SSC Eights! Points: 917 More actions · Answer 12

Greetings,

I am quite surprised by your dogs guys. We used that trick with litterally hundred if not thousand of dogs when I was working at the shelter (I moved and I am not longer volountering there). A lot of time it was hard to make the dog accept the threat, but once it is in the mouth, it is like it is in the stomach.

One funny story: My great dane hate so much the vet that when she was giving her a cookie, she was litterally spitting it in her face. She was aiming her face, spit and then she was looking at me with what I would almost say a smile.

BTW Mr Jones, I admire the work you did with that website. This site saved my butt a couple of times.

Thank you

MBA

MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD, MCITP, IBM DB2 Expert, I-Net+, CIW

Proud member of the NRA

-Anti-gun laws prevent law abiding citizens to buy guns and defend themselves against bad guys who do not care about the law and get their gun illegally.

- Democracy is 2 wolves and one sheep talking about their next dinner. Freedom is 2 wolves and one armed sheep with a .357 magnum talking about their next dinner.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 13

So, tell us what the trick is...

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 14

Thanks for the complement and glad you like the site. It's as much Jeff, Matt, and others as me here making things work.

My co-host in the middle was Khali. She's our 3rd Dane and she doesn't do the pills well either. She's learned how to extract the pill from peanut butter and cheese quite often, so she gets the throat jamming technique for some medicines.