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Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99126 More actions · Answer 1

Neil Burton - Thursday, September 7, 2017 1:01 AM
That basically sums it all up. There is an application being developed (From scratch and not by the customer with whom we are directly working) to use hardware (That first needed to be invented by a third party, who at the time had no experience inventing such hardware and who have subsequently been replaced by another part of my organisation who are world leaders in our field but weren't allowed to bid initially coz politics and then could bid coz different politics), to do the job that the software we're currently supporting does. It was supposed to have been knocked out within six months so temporary fixes were put in place. Strangely, it turned into something of a lengthy project and it's why I'm still here three years and counting into a six month interim contract that should have ended with us being subsumed into the customer's IT department and then probably shown the door. I feel the word sh!tpile I used earlier may slightly understate the ridiculousness of our situation.

Sounds like most projects now a days. You get a time line of 3-4 months, and 2-3 years down the line, you're still waiting and things are steadily getting worse with all the "temporary" measures you've put in that you knew would fall over after too much use (but that was fine, cause it would work for at least a year, and it would be gone in 4. Oh wait!). I suppose at least it's not Star Citizen... :hehe:

Thom~

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50083 More actions · Answer 2

Neil Burton - Thursday, September 7, 2017 1:01 AM
jonathan.crawford - Wednesday, September 6, 2017 1:18 PM
Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, September 6, 2017 6:34 AM
Thanks...
BTW, aren't reports supposed to "report"? As in the idea is that applications change data, reports just tell you the state of the data. That's the way I've always seen the issue. It doesn't make sense to have a report that does application work.
because you're not allowed to develop applications, there's no budget for it and no project hours available, but you need to find a way to track something. so, you come up with bad ideas, pick the least bad one and do that.
That basically sums it all up. There is an application being developed (From scratch and not by the customer with whom we are directly working) to use hardware (That first needed to be invented by a third party, who at the time had no experience inventing such hardware and who have subsequently been replaced by another part of my organisation who are world leaders in our field but weren't allowed to bid initially coz politics and then could bid coz different politics), to do the job that the software we're currently supporting does. It was supposed to have been knocked out within six months so temporary fixes were put in place. Strangely, it turned into something of a lengthy project and it's why I'm still here three years and counting into a six month interim contract that should have ended with us being subsumed into the customer's IT department and then probably shown the door. I feel the word sh!tpile I used earlier may slightly understate the ridiculousness of our situation.

Um, you're not working on the F-35 in any way, are you?
😀:hehe:

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22922 More actions · Answer 3

jasona.work - Thursday, September 7, 2017 4:33 AM
Neil Burton - Thursday, September 7, 2017 1:01 AM
jonathan.crawford - Wednesday, September 6, 2017 1:18 PM
Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, September 6, 2017 6:34 AM
Thanks...
BTW, aren't reports supposed to "report"? As in the idea is that applications change data, reports just tell you the state of the data. That's the way I've always seen the issue. It doesn't make sense to have a report that does application work.
because you're not allowed to develop applications, there's no budget for it and no project hours available, but you need to find a way to track something. so, you come up with bad ideas, pick the least bad one and do that.
That basically sums it all up. There is an application being developed (From scratch and not by the customer with whom we are directly working) to use hardware (That first needed to be invented by a third party, who at the time had no experience inventing such hardware and who have subsequently been replaced by another part of my organisation who are world leaders in our field but weren't allowed to bid initially coz politics and then could bid coz different politics), to do the job that the software we're currently supporting does. It was supposed to have been knocked out within six months so temporary fixes were put in place. Strangely, it turned into something of a lengthy project and it's why I'm still here three years and counting into a six month interim contract that should have ended with us being subsumed into the customer's IT department and then probably shown the door. I feel the word sh!tpile I used earlier may slightly understate the ridiculousness of our situation.
Um, you're not working on the F-35 in any way, are you?
😀:hehe:

Ha, I wish it was as straightforward as that!!

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

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173002 More actions · Answer 4

Luis Cazares - Wednesday, September 6, 2017 1:37 PM
Congratulations Brandie!
Just take care as it seems that the weather won't be great for Florida these following dates.

Yeah, I've already queried the hospital on their hurricane response plan. Fortunately it's not in a mandatory evacuation zone.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 5

Brandie Tarvin - Thursday, September 7, 2017 5:51 AM
Luis Cazares - Wednesday, September 6, 2017 1:37 PM
Congratulations Brandie!
Just take care as it seems that the weather won't be great for Florida these following dates.
Yeah, I've already queried the hospital on their hurricane response plan. Fortunately it's not in a mandatory evacuation zone.

Sorry for the late Congratulations, Brandie. All I can say is the fun is just beginning!

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 6

What is the percentage improvement of process from 1 hour 30 minutes to 13 seconds, other than going plaid.

Chris Harshman SSC-Forever Points: 42192 More actions · Answer 7

Lynn Pettis - Thursday, September 7, 2017 2:33 PM
What is the percentage improvement of process from 1 hour 30 minutes to 13 seconds, other than going plaid.

LOL, you must be going ludicrous speed! :hehe:

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 8

Chris Harshman - Thursday, September 7, 2017 3:04 PM
Lynn Pettis - Thursday, September 7, 2017 2:33 PM
What is the percentage improvement of process from 1 hour 30 minutes to 13 seconds, other than going plaid.
LOL, you must be going ludicrous speed! :hehe:

Amazing what you can do when you understand what it takes to work with data using linked servers.

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

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Where is the petition to ban JC?

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003873 More actions · Answer 10

Lynn Pettis - Thursday, September 7, 2017 3:10 PM
Chris Harshman - Thursday, September 7, 2017 3:04 PM
Lynn Pettis - Thursday, September 7, 2017 2:33 PM
What is the percentage improvement of process from 1 hour 30 minutes to 13 seconds, other than going plaid.
LOL, you must be going ludicrous speed! :hehe:
Amazing what you can do when you understand what it takes to work with data using linked servers.

Sounds like great article material, Lynn. Go for it.

--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: 1003873 More actions · Answer 11

Lynn Pettis - Thursday, September 7, 2017 3:53 PM
Where is the petition to ban JC?

Nah... don't ban him. He needs to take the same kind of s41t that he's been dishing out over the years. If you ban him, we can't do that. 😉

--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)

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398707 More actions · Answer 12

Fellow Threadizens!

Today is my last day of work before Red Gate makes me take a six week sabbatical. I'll try answering a few questions today and then I'm off until October. Hold down the fort. Keep the powder dry. Remember to shoot the officers first.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Chris Harshman SSC-Forever Points: 42192 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden - Thursday, September 7, 2017 6:06 PM
Nah... don't ban him. He needs to take the same kind of s41t that he's been dishing out over the years. If you ban him, we can't do that. 😉

I usually view his posts as comic relief, "here he goes again"

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99126 More actions · Answer 14

Grant Fritchey - Friday, September 8, 2017 5:32 AM
Fellow Threadizens!
Today is my last day of work before Red Gate makes me take a six week sabbatical. I'll try answering a few questions today and then I'm off until October. Hold down the fort. Keep the powder dry. Remember to shoot the officers first.

Enjoy the time off! We'll make sure you have a cold beer or 2 ready when you get back (you might need it :hehe: ).

Thom~

Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398707 More actions · Answer 15

Thom A - Friday, September 8, 2017 7:09 AM
Enjoy the time off! We'll make sure you have a cold beer or 2 ready when you get back (you might need it :hehe: ).

Probably not. I'll be in Germany for Oktoberfest so...

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning