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• Lynn Pettis

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  September 30, 2015 at 6:06 pm

  #1830623

  Jack Corbett (9/30/2015)

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  WayneS (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  Brandie Tarvin (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  An unsolicited email has just dropped into my Hotmail inbox from a recruitment agency touting a permy dev DBA role in Soho (London) paying £50k to £90k. If SQL Server was lemon-squeezy the rate wouldn't be as high.

  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

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  I believe HADR is HARD. 😀

  I'm noting a distinct lack of sympathy with my SQL 2012 Cluster woes.

  Sniff.

  Sniff, sniff.

  < puppy dog eyes >

  Virtual pizza in the email 🙂

  And donuts. 😉

  And chocolate. 😀

  And Limoncello :satisfied:

  and jellybeans

  Wow. The only thing I seem to be missing is the popcorn.

  I don't know, Brandie. I think you have enough there to keep you busy for a while.

  s'mores anyone?

  Bacon?

  Bacon is ALWAYS welcome!

• ChrisM@Work

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  October 1, 2015 at 1:23 am

  #1830641

  Lynn Pettis (9/30/2015)

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  Jack Corbett (9/30/2015)

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  SQLRNNR (9/30/2015)

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  Ed Wagner (9/30/2015)

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  Brandie Tarvin (9/30/2015)

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  SQLRNNR (9/30/2015)

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  Eirikur Eiriksson (9/30/2015)

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  WayneS (9/30/2015)

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  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  Brandie Tarvin (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  An unsolicited email has just dropped into my Hotmail inbox from a recruitment agency touting a permy dev DBA role in Soho (London) paying £50k to £90k. If SQL Server was lemon-squeezy the rate wouldn't be as high.

  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

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  I believe HADR is HARD. 😀

  I'm noting a distinct lack of sympathy with my SQL 2012 Cluster woes.

  Sniff.

  Sniff, sniff.

  < puppy dog eyes >

  Virtual pizza in the email 🙂

  And donuts. 😉

  And chocolate. 😀

  And Limoncello :satisfied:

  and jellybeans

  Wow. The only thing I seem to be missing is the popcorn.

  I don't know, Brandie. I think you have enough there to keep you busy for a while.

  s'mores anyone?

  Bacon?

  Bacon is ALWAYS welcome!

  Mmmmm bacon...could murder a bacon butty right now...

  ^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

  For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
  Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
  Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

• BLOB EATER

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  October 1, 2015 at 1:24 am

  #1830642

  ChrisM@Work (10/1/2015)

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  Lynn Pettis (9/30/2015)

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  Jack Corbett (9/30/2015)

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  SQLRNNR (9/30/2015)

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  Ed Wagner (9/30/2015)

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  Brandie Tarvin (9/30/2015)

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  SQLRNNR (9/30/2015)

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  Eirikur Eiriksson (9/30/2015)

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  WayneS (9/30/2015)

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  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  Brandie Tarvin (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  An unsolicited email has just dropped into my Hotmail inbox from a recruitment agency touting a permy dev DBA role in Soho (London) paying £50k to £90k. If SQL Server was lemon-squeezy the rate wouldn't be as high.

  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

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  I believe HADR is HARD. 😀

  I'm noting a distinct lack of sympathy with my SQL 2012 Cluster woes.

  Sniff.

  Sniff, sniff.

  < puppy dog eyes >

  Virtual pizza in the email 🙂

  And donuts. 😉

  And chocolate. 😀

  And Limoncello :satisfied:

  and jellybeans

  Wow. The only thing I seem to be missing is the popcorn.

  I don't know, Brandie. I think you have enough there to keep you busy for a while.

  s'mores anyone?

  Bacon?

  Bacon is ALWAYS welcome!

  Mmmmm bacon...could murder a bacon butty right now...

  I just enjoyed one... with brown sauce. Might have another, Thursday Fat day.

• ChrisM@Work

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  October 1, 2015 at 1:27 am

  #1830643

  BL0B_EATER (10/1/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (10/1/2015)

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  Lynn Pettis (9/30/2015)

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  Jack Corbett (9/30/2015)

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  SQLRNNR (9/30/2015)

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  Ed Wagner (9/30/2015)

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  Brandie Tarvin (9/30/2015)

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  SQLRNNR (9/30/2015)

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  Eirikur Eiriksson (9/30/2015)

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  WayneS (9/30/2015)

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  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  Brandie Tarvin (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  An unsolicited email has just dropped into my Hotmail inbox from a recruitment agency touting a permy dev DBA role in Soho (London) paying £50k to £90k. If SQL Server was lemon-squeezy the rate wouldn't be as high.

  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

  ---

  I believe HADR is HARD. 😀

  I'm noting a distinct lack of sympathy with my SQL 2012 Cluster woes.

  Sniff.

  Sniff, sniff.

  < puppy dog eyes >

  Virtual pizza in the email 🙂

  And donuts. 😉

  And chocolate. 😀

  And Limoncello :satisfied:

  and jellybeans

  Wow. The only thing I seem to be missing is the popcorn.

  I don't know, Brandie. I think you have enough there to keep you busy for a while.

  s'mores anyone?

  Bacon?

  Bacon is ALWAYS welcome!

  Mmmmm bacon...could murder a bacon butty right now...

  I just enjoyed one... with brown sauce. Might have another, Thursday Fat day.

  :crying:

  ^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

  For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
  Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
  Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

• Dwain Camps

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  October 1, 2015 at 1:45 am

  #1830650

  BL0B_EATER (10/1/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (10/1/2015)

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  Lynn Pettis (9/30/2015)

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  Jack Corbett (9/30/2015)

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  Ed Wagner (9/30/2015)

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  SQLRNNR (9/30/2015)

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  WayneS (9/30/2015)

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  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  Brandie Tarvin (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  An unsolicited email has just dropped into my Hotmail inbox from a recruitment agency touting a permy dev DBA role in Soho (London) paying £50k to £90k. If SQL Server was lemon-squeezy the rate wouldn't be as high.

  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

  ---

  I believe HADR is HARD. 😀

  I'm noting a distinct lack of sympathy with my SQL 2012 Cluster woes.

  Sniff.

  Sniff, sniff.

  < puppy dog eyes >

  Virtual pizza in the email 🙂

  And donuts. 😉

  And chocolate. 😀

  And Limoncello :satisfied:

  and jellybeans

  Wow. The only thing I seem to be missing is the popcorn.

  I don't know, Brandie. I think you have enough there to keep you busy for a while.

  s'mores anyone?

  Bacon?

  Bacon is ALWAYS welcome!

  Mmmmm bacon...could murder a bacon butty right now...

  I just enjoyed one... with brown sauce. Might have another, Thursday Fat day.

  A bacon bully!? What in the name of the Buddha is that? Google brings me no joy.

  I brought back some bully beef from PNG that my wife just loves.

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  My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

  My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

  My advice:
  INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
  The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

  Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
  Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
  Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
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• ChrisM@Work

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  October 1, 2015 at 1:50 am

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  dwain.c (10/1/2015)

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  Lynn Pettis (9/30/2015)

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  SQLRNNR (9/30/2015)

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  WayneS (9/30/2015)

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  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  Brandie Tarvin (9/30/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (9/30/2015)

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  An unsolicited email has just dropped into my Hotmail inbox from a recruitment agency touting a permy dev DBA role in Soho (London) paying £50k to £90k. If SQL Server was lemon-squeezy the rate wouldn't be as high.

  Luis Cazares (9/30/2015)

  ---

  I believe HADR is HARD. 😀

  I'm noting a distinct lack of sympathy with my SQL 2012 Cluster woes.

  Sniff.

  Sniff, sniff.

  < puppy dog eyes >

  Virtual pizza in the email 🙂

  And donuts. 😉

  And chocolate. 😀

  And Limoncello :satisfied:

  and jellybeans

  Wow. The only thing I seem to be missing is the popcorn.

  I don't know, Brandie. I think you have enough there to keep you busy for a while.

  s'mores anyone?

  Bacon?

  Bacon is ALWAYS welcome!

  Mmmmm bacon...could murder a bacon butty right now...

  I just enjoyed one... with brown sauce. Might have another, Thursday Fat day.

  A bacon bully!? What in the name of the Buddha is that? Google brings me no joy.

  I brought back some bully beef from PNG that my wife just loves.

  Bully? "Butty"! Two (or more) slices of bread with stuff in between. Fatboy upstairs probably had a tripledecker.

  ^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

  For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
  Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
  Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

• Neil Burton

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  October 1, 2015 at 2:33 am

  #1830664

  I got a bacon making kit for my birthday on Sunday. I can't wait to give it a go. Hopefully next month there'll be a butty with homemade bacon, homemade sausage and eggs from the allotment on homemade bread. I can taste it already...

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  On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
  —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

  How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

• ChrisM@Work

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  October 1, 2015 at 2:51 am

  #1830669

  BWFC (10/1/2015)

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  I got a bacon making kit for my birthday on Sunday. I can't wait to give it a go. Hopefully next month there'll be a butty with homemade bacon, homemade sausage and eggs from the allotment on homemade bread. I can taste it already...

  Go for it. I got this for Christmas but haven't had time to do anything with it yet.

  ^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

  For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
  Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
  Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

• Gail Shaw

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  October 1, 2015 at 2:55 am

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  BWFC (10/1/2015)

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  Hopefully next month there'll be a butty with homemade bacon, homemade sausage and eggs from the allotment on homemade bread. I can taste it already...

  So, um, whereabouts in the UK do you live? Just curious.... 😀

  Gail Shaw
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• BLOB EATER

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  October 1, 2015 at 3:53 am

  #1830681

  Talking about pork products, any one understand Sausage with Maple? I don't..

• Neil Burton

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  October 1, 2015 at 3:57 am

  #1830683

  ChrisM@Work (10/1/2015)

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  BWFC (10/1/2015)

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  I got a bacon making kit for my birthday on Sunday. I can't wait to give it a go. Hopefully next month there'll be a butty with homemade bacon, homemade sausage and eggs from the allotment on homemade bread. I can taste it already...

  Go for it. I got this for Christmas but haven't had time to do anything with it yet.

  I've got the River Cottage Handbook and Food DIY but unfortunately not had much success with curing meat. We've bought a mini-fridge specifically for preserving stuff now so hopefully should have more luck.

  If anybody's throwing out a gym locker or filing cabinet in the North Manchester area I'd like to build a cold smoker soon 🙂

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  On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
  —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

  How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

• ChrisM@Work

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  October 1, 2015 at 4:10 am

  #1830684

  BWFC (10/1/2015)

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  ChrisM@Work (10/1/2015)

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  BWFC (10/1/2015)

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  I got a bacon making kit for my birthday on Sunday. I can't wait to give it a go. Hopefully next month there'll be a butty with homemade bacon, homemade sausage and eggs from the allotment on homemade bread. I can taste it already...

  Go for it. I got this for Christmas but haven't had time to do anything with it yet.

  I've got the River Cottage Handbook and Food DIY but unfortunately not had much success with curing meat. We've bought a mini-fridge specifically for preserving stuff now so hopefully should have more luck.

  If anybody's throwing out a gym locker or filing cabinet in the North Manchester area I'd like to build a cold smoker soon 🙂

  The Strawbridges publish a couple of simple designs in their book.

  ^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

  For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
  Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
  Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

• ChrisM@Work

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  October 1, 2015 at 4:13 am

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  BL0B_EATER (10/1/2015)

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  Talking about pork products, any one understand Sausage with Maple? I don't..

  It's surely what you are used to? Pork & apple in the UK. Never tried sausages & maple but bacon & maple is good. Oh, wait a minute...got it...this place [/url]does a really nice mixed platter with sausage & maple.

  ^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

  For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
  Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
  Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

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  October 1, 2015 at 4:26 am

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  BL0B_EATER (10/1/2015)

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  Talking about pork products, any one understand Sausage with Maple? I don't..

  I've been to Canada more times than I can recall - maple with pretty much anything. Maple with pork products is amazing. Maple tea, not so much.

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• Brandie Tarvin

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  October 1, 2015 at 4:51 am

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  BrainDonor (10/1/2015)

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  BL0B_EATER (10/1/2015)

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  Talking about pork products, any one understand Sausage with Maple? I don't..

  I've been to Canada more times than I can recall - maple with pretty much anything. Maple with pork products is amazing. Maple tea, not so much.

  Some days I wish I lived in a maple-tapping state. I would love to do some tapping.

  Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.