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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172995 More actions · Answer 1

Fal (7/6/2011)
anyone with a minor dose of manners and a sense of humor is invited.
Please, kind Ladies and Gents, will you indulge me in a joke?
"Knock knock..."

Uhoh...

Who's there? (wince)

EDIT: Gail, you is a funny girl! @=)

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Stuart Davies (7/6/2011)
Contracting to me is a double edge sword, on one hand you have more money - but you are looking out for your next job half way through your contract, permie work you thinking that you were contracting and earning more money.
Depending how you arrange things, in the UK you can also end up paying employers taxes along with your employees taxes. Then you have to pay any expenses (books, software, hotels etc.) out of your take home pay

I normally work as W2 so the agency takes care of employer taxes and deals with all of my withholding as well. In addition, that way they take care of billing and "float" my paycheck so I get paid on a regular schedule instead of having to wait for the company to get around to paying its bills. I make a little less as a W2 employee, but I consider it a fee well paid to not have to deal with all those things or the footwork in finding a new job from scratch.

As far as starting to look for a new position, most contracts go longer than the 3 months they're originally slated for, I usually start looking for a new position around a month before the current one ends. That way if I find something, I don't have to leave the new position early as most employers aren't willing to wait more than a month for you to start.

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Kit G SSCrazy Points: 2888 More actions · Answer 3

All you Aussies and Kiwis stay safe, just heard of a tsumani warning for northeast New Zealand and Australia (East Cape and Auckland).

-- Kit

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734459 More actions · Answer 4

Kit G (7/6/2011)
All you Aussies and Kiwis stay safe, just heard of a tsumani warning for northeast New Zealand and Australia (East Cape and Auckland).

ditto. Just saw that come through.

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 5

Kit G (7/6/2011)
All you Aussies and Kiwis stay safe, just heard of a tsumani warning for northeast New Zealand and Australia (East Cape and Auckland).

Hopefully it will only be small, but it is a worry. Nothing but shakes recently it seems 🙁

Paul White
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Fal Hall of Fame Points: 3143 More actions · Answer 6

Brandie Tarvin (7/6/2011)
Fal (7/6/2011)
anyone with a minor dose of manners and a sense of humor is invited.
Please, kind Ladies and Gents, will you indulge me in a joke?
"Knock knock..."
Uhoh...
Who's there? (wince)
EDIT: Gail, you is a funny girl! @=)

Well, I did have a hilarious! punch line all worked out. But then Gail went and ruined it all. :angry:

Steve.

Fal Hall of Fame Points: 3143 More actions · Answer 7

Kit G (7/6/2011)
All you Aussies and Kiwis stay safe, just heard of a tsumani warning for northeast New Zealand and Australia (East Cape and Auckland).

Currently no threat to Australia as of this morning. But I believe NZ is still under threat.

"There is no Tsunami threat to Australia.

[updated at 5:19 AM EST on Thursday 07 July 2011 ] "

Steve.

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172995 More actions · Answer 8

I heard the Tsunami warning for NZ was canceled as well, with no harm done to everyone.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 9

Fal (7/6/2011)
Well, I did have a hilarious! punch line all worked out. But then Gail went and ruined it all. :angry:

Major apologies. Was not my intention. Please, post punchline. There's always need for more bad SQL jokes.

Gail Shaw
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003869 More actions · Answer 10

opc.three (7/6/2011)
I have thanked you many times before in these forums and it goes without saying that there were no doubts as to your deservedness but I must say it too, congrats Jeff on your MVP renewal and thanks for all you do!

You have, indeed, Orlando. Thank you for those and for this.

--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)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003869 More actions · Answer 11

David Burrows (7/6/2011)
Jeff Moden (7/5/2011)
This turned into a "watercooler" thread a long time ago and anyone with a minor dose of manners and a sense of humor is invited.
Damn! Counts me out twice. I'll close the door on my way out :crying:

Heh... I beg to differ. You put up with me so well that you've used a picture of me for your Avatar. 😛

--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)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003869 More actions · Answer 12

ALZDBA (7/3/2011)
It's great to see many of SSC addicts have been granted MVP once more.
Congratulations to you all.

Dang... I missed this one on the first pass. Thank you, Sir. I've gotta say it again... it was a real pleasure to meet you in person last year.

--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)

Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135259 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden (7/7/2011)
ALZDBA (7/3/2011)
It's great to see many of SSC addicts have been granted MVP once more.
Congratulations to you all.
Dang... I missed this one on the first pass. Thank you, Sir. I've gotta say it again... it was a real pleasure to meet you in person last year.

Keeping up with The Thread is a hard job :hehe:

Scanning and hoping your eye catches the stuff of your interest is the gamble one has to take 😎

btw: I still hope you can squeeze in at SQLPass this year :Whistling:

Johan

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 14

ALZDBA (7/7/2011)
Jeff Moden (7/7/2011)
ALZDBA (7/3/2011)
It's great to see many of SSC addicts have been granted MVP once more.
Congratulations to you all.
Dang... I missed this one on the first pass. Thank you, Sir. I've gotta say it again... it was a real pleasure to meet you in person last year.
Keeping up with The Thread is a hard job :hehe:
Scanning and hoping your eye catches the stuff of your interest is the gamble one has to take 😎
btw: I still hope you can squeeze in at SQLPass this year :Whistling:

Yeah, the indexing on The Thread is definitely broken. It's all "bookmark lookups" and "out of date stats" and the fragmentation on the "subject under discussion" and "responses to posts" indexes are just outrageous!

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65138 More actions · Answer 15

GSquared (7/7/2011)
Yeah, the indexing on The Thread is definitely broken. It's all "bookmark lookups" and "out of date stats" and the fragmentation on the "subject under discussion" and "responses to posts" indexes are just outrageous!

So it's just a heap then 😀

But a heap of what?

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.