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Ninja's_RGR'us
Ninja's_RGR'us
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:15 AM
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gonickl (9/16/2010)
It wasn't my decision.
Letter of disapproval on it's way to Barack Obama!!!!
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Luke L
Luke L
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:32 AM
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Toss another on the pile of I think the comics are great and I enjoy them each and every week! I'd like to see them continued
-Luke.
To help us help you
read this
For better help with performance problems please
read this
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Cadavre
Cadavre
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:36 AM
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That sucks. . . I really enjoy these comics! What can we do to stop them being finished?
Not a DBA, just trying to learn
For better, quicker answers on T-SQL questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/
For better, quicker answers on SQL Server performance related questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/
If you litter your database queries with nolock query hints, are you aware of the side effects?
Try reading a few of these links...
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Missing rows with nolock
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Allocation order scans with nolock
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Consistency issues with nolock
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Transient Corruption Errors in SQL Server error log caused by nolock
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Dirty reads, read errors, reading rows twice and missing rows with nolock
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Ninja's_RGR'us
Ninja's_RGR'us
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:46 AM
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skcadavre (9/16/2010)
That sucks. . . I really enjoy these comics! What can we do to stop them being finished?
Fire management!
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SQLRNNR
SQLRNNR
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:10 AM
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Ninja's_RGR'us (9/16/2010)
skcadavre (9/16/2010)
That sucks. . . I really enjoy these comics! What can we do to stop them being finished?
Fire management!
I concur - do we need a petition?
Jason
AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
I have given a name to my pain...
MCM SQL Server 2008
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw
Posting Data Etiquette - Jeff Moden
Hidden RBAR - Jeff Moden
VLFs and the Tran Log - Kimberly Tripp
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor
Steve Jones - SSC Editor
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:11 AM
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This wasn't my decision either. I was informed of this recently, and wasn't sure when Larry would be told.
I like the comics, and I've made a thread here:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Forum83-1.aspx?Update=1
Please feel free to chime in. I will make a site announcement on Monday.
Follow me on Twitter:
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Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help
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Grant Fritchey
Grant Fritchey
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:12 AM
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Another positive vote. I love these things.
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Brandie Tarvin
Brandie Tarvin
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:23 AM
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Ditto!
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Phil Factor
Phil Factor
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:43 AM
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I'm completely in awe of Larry's talent in injecting so much humour into whatever he draws. Very few people understand the predicament of developers and DBAs was well as Larry does. This is because he a scientist as well as an artist with a good understanding of technology as well as the human predicament in the workplace. He also actively goes out and asks developers and DBAs about their lives at work, and extracts the essential humor of it. For me, Derek is a real live person. His moods and predicaments are my own.
We've had a great deal of fun with these comics and I, for one, really look forward to them. Originally, we planned just a finite series of them, but we have continued them because they've been so popular. They've succeeded way beyond what anyone imagined, which is why we now have so many on the site.
Unfortunately, it has been difficult to justify them, coldly, in terms of the number of visitors they attract to the site. Steve and I are currently seeing how if there are other ways we can persuade Larry to use his genius to amuse and educate the community, and all ideas and suggestions are very welcome. It would be great to get the Red-Gate management to fund another project but it is up to us to come up with something that is bound to appeal to the mainstream of DBAs.
Best wishes,
Phil Factor
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Ninja's_RGR'us
Ninja's_RGR'us
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 10:00 AM
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Phil Factor (9/16/2010)
I'm completely in awe of Larry's talent in injecting so much humour into whatever he draws. Very few people understand the predicament of developers and DBAs was well as Larry does. This is because he a scientist as well as an artist with a good understanding of technology as well as the human predicament in the workplace. He also actively goes out and asks developers and DBAs about their lives at work, and extracts the essential humor of it. For me, Derek is a real live person. His moods and predicaments are my own.
We've had a great deal of fun with these comics and I, for one, really look forward to them. Originally, we planned just a finite series of them, but we have continued them because they've been so popular. They've succeeded way beyond what anyone imagined, which is why we now have so many on the site.
Unfortunately, it has been difficult to justify them, coldly, in terms of the number of visitors they attract to the site. Steve and I are currently seeing how if there are other ways we can persuade Larry to use his genius to amuse and educate the community, and all ideas and suggestions are very welcome. It would be great to get the Red-Gate management to fund another project but it is up to us to come up with something that is bound to appeal to the mainstream of DBAs.
"To fund another project", are you guys really that strapped for cash???
No offense, but last time I checked you were giving 25$ for and article. I can't really imagine you giving more than 100$ per comic, if that much.
So 5000$ / year @ 25$ a book is 400 books sold to cover the costs (not withstanding the traffic it brings in). With 1.3M members in our little ssc community (I'm assuming at least 10M sql server guys in the world), it would take you less than 1 sell per 1000 members yearly. Now keep in mind that most people will usually also buy the second year, so for year 1 you can aim even lower than that.
And using 25$ per comic, all you need to do is sell
ONE
license of the
toolbelt
to cover your ENTIRE investement for the year, that completely ignoring the lifetime value of your customers.
Any marketers worth their salt would tell you it's worth a dry run to test the waters.
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