August 12, 2011 at 6:29 am
Congrats Lynn!
I'm so glad you left the dark side and came back to your community!
Now you know how dark is the other side... don't cross the border any more!
-- Gianluca Sartori
August 12, 2011 at 6:31 am
Brandie Tarvin (8/11/2011)
I'm published again! "Tales We'll Tell Tomorrow" is the final chapter in the Shadowrun Street Legends sourcebook. It's a novelette this time and my editor loved my fight scene.
Heh... I don't know how folks like you do it, Brandie. Well done and thanks for making life interesting for the rest of us. 🙂
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 12, 2011 at 6:37 am
Grant Fritchey (8/11/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (8/11/2011)
Grant Fritchey (8/11/2011)
Well done Brandie. The only real author I know and we still haven't met.I think it's hilarious that you think you're not a real author.
You're writing, aren't you?
You're getting published, aren't you?
You're getting paid for both, aren't you?
If not, you're doing something wrong. If so, then congratulations. That's what authors do. We write the stuff that other people sell. @=)
Tech writing is just not the same.
Correct... you have to be right in tech writing. 😀
I've read two of your books and wrote a review on one of them. Not only are you a writer, but you're a good one. Both of your books introduced difficult subjects to the reader and progressed through appropriate "revelation" so that both Neophytes and Alumni to the subject could follow along without getting lost or bored. There are few technical authors that write in a fashion where I've enjoyed "the read" as much.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
August 12, 2011 at 6:48 am
The difference between tech writing and fiction writing?
Fiction writers get to lie for a living, disguising it as the truth.
Tech writers have to tell the truth, making sure the truth is actually fact.
Neither of them are appreciated as much as they should be. @=)
August 12, 2011 at 6:53 am
bitbucket-25253 (8/11/2011)
Evil Kraig FOn the QOD:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1157383-1222-5.aspx#bm1158891
Many thanks for your comments on the above. Hopefully even without SanDroid's endless rant, some people learned something about why not to Shrink a DB.
Again many thanks.
... I had to resort to putting him on my blocked PM list.
Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes
August 12, 2011 at 6:56 am
Brandie Tarvin (8/12/2011)
Hey, all. I don't know much about this subject (Other Wait statistics). Can anyone help this poster? He hasn't had any answers at all since he posted early yesterday:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1158300-146-1.aspx
I did what I could.
-Roy
August 12, 2011 at 7:37 am
Jeff Moden (8/12/2011)
Grant Fritchey (8/11/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (8/11/2011)
Grant Fritchey (8/11/2011)
Well done Brandie. The only real author I know and we still haven't met.I think it's hilarious that you think you're not a real author.
You're writing, aren't you?
You're getting published, aren't you?
You're getting paid for both, aren't you?
If not, you're doing something wrong. If so, then congratulations. That's what authors do. We write the stuff that other people sell. @=)
Tech writing is just not the same.
Correct... you have to be right in tech writing. 😀
I've read two of your books and wrote a review on one of them. Not only are you a writer, but you're a good one. Both of your books introduced difficult subjects to the reader and progressed through appropriate "revelation" so that both Neophytes and Alumni to the subject could follow along without getting lost or bored. There are few technical authors that write in a fashion where I've enjoyed "the read" as much.
Thanks Jeff.
Every time you comment on stuff I have to work harder to be worthy of the comments.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
August 12, 2011 at 7:38 am
Hey guys, want a free little toy from Red Gate? It's called Tab Magic and remembers what tabs you had open when you close SSMS. Kinda cool. A product of the down tools week experimentation they allow at the company. Check it out.
Oh, and there's a competition going on between a couple of teams... guess which one I'm backing.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
August 12, 2011 at 7:42 am
Brandie Tarvin (8/12/2011)
Roy Ernest (8/11/2011)
Wonderful. Congratulations.Thanks. @=) And thanks to everyone else, too.
Roy Ernest (8/11/2011)
How do you make time to write? I have been writing(Planning to write an article) for a long time and I still havent finished yet.I have to make a choice what is most important to me when it comes to deciding which activities to do in my free moments.
I write during breaks, during lunches, after work, and on weekends. I don't watch as much t.v. as I want to and I've had to cut back on my free-time book reading this year to get everything done. I try to get at least 500 words done a day and sometimes get up to 3k (if it's a workday) or 5k-6k if it's a non-work day.
It helps that I'm addicted to writing. I can't pass a day or two without writing something down, even if it's just a story idea or a character note. Plus, I'm getting paid for this stuff. If it were just fanfic, I'd be able to take my time. But I have deadlines to meet and people who depend on me to meet them. It's just like the day job and needs to be treated like it.
Stefan Krzywicki (8/11/2011)
Congratulations Brandie. I know you don't go to a lot of conventions, but I hope to meet you at either a games con, SF/Fantasy con or SQL Server con some day. : -)I'm going to Renovations WorldCon in Reno next week. I'll be at Dragon*Con on Labor Day weekend. Are you attending either of those or any SQL Saturdays in the Florida region?
Funny, we've been going to Worldcon for years, but we skipped last year because Australia was too expensive and we're not going this year because it is in Reno. We're looking forward to Chicago next year though.
I really only go to my local SQL Saturday, too expensive to travel to most others.
We've never gone to Dragon Con, never really discused it. I'll talk to Emily about it, so maybe?
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August 12, 2011 at 7:43 am
Grant Fritchey (8/12/2011)
Hey guys, want a free little toy from Red Gate? It's called Tab Magic and remembers what tabs you had open when you close SSMS. Kinda cool. A product of the down tools week experimentation they allow at the company. Check it out.Oh, and there's a competition going on between a couple of teams... guess which one I'm backing.
Love this idea... happens too often for my taste... and in IE too. Very nice feature!
August 12, 2011 at 7:53 am
Grant Fritchey (8/12/2011)
Hey guys, want a free little toy from Red Gate? It's called Tab Magic and remembers what tabs you had open when you close SSMS. Kinda cool. A product of the down tools week experimentation they allow at the company. Check it out.Oh, and there's a competition going on between a couple of teams... guess which one I'm backing.
Got it yesterday, haven't tried it out yet.
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August 12, 2011 at 7:56 am
Stefan Krzywicki (8/12/2011)
Funny, we've been going to Worldcon for years, but we skipped last year because Australia was too expensive and we're not going this year because it is in Reno. We're looking forward to Chicago next year though....
We've never gone to Dragon Con, never really discused it. I'll talk to Emily about it, so maybe?
I'm hoping to go to WorldCon next year too, but I don't know if I'll be able to afford it. I won't know until closer to the end of this year or early next year.
So, if you don't go to Dragon*Con, maybe we can meet up in Chicago next year.
August 12, 2011 at 8:08 am
Grant Fritchey (8/12/2011)
Thanks Jeff.Every time you comment on stuff I have to work harder to be worthy of the comments.
Drats... you've figured out how he's getting you to work harder. :-D:w00t:
Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes
August 12, 2011 at 8:22 am
Brandie Tarvin (8/12/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (8/12/2011)
Funny, we've been going to Worldcon for years, but we skipped last year because Australia was too expensive and we're not going this year because it is in Reno. We're looking forward to Chicago next year though....
We've never gone to Dragon Con, never really discused it. I'll talk to Emily about it, so maybe?
I'm hoping to go to WorldCon next year too, but I don't know if I'll be able to afford it. I won't know until closer to the end of this year or early next year.
So, if you don't go to Dragon*Con, maybe we can meet up in Chicago next year.
That would be nice.
One of the reasons we tend to go to Worldcon every year is that we use it as the family holiday get-together and then we don't have to travel at Christmastime. September has much better travel weather.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
August 12, 2011 at 8:43 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (8/11/2011)
Tom.Thomson (8/11/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (8/11/2011)
If you love synchronicities you'll love the humor in this one!http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1158766-391-1.aspx
But which is crazier there - the locking hint or the tortuous where clause (getting rid of all those pointless IsNull operations and the ludicrous case statement would give the otimiser a chance to do something with that where clause; with the current awful thing, there's no way the optimiser stands a chance).
Yes, there's synchronicity - the OP name fits both the hint and the where clause very well.
SqlMaverick uses nolock with a nuclear warning on the thread emoticon.
'nuff said 😀
But was the nuclear warning for the hint or the where clause or maybe for both?
Tom
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