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  • Grant Fritchey wrote:

    Let's just say, mussels, mayo on fries and a tripel is one of my favorite meals on the planet.

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    Grant Fritchey wrote:

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    (and PS Grant, you are our long lost mentor, I often wonder if my father wasn't either you or steve 🙂  - we know it's not brent, he likes DMV's too much)

    You're going to need to get a court order and some DNA, because I'm denying it until I see the test. HA!

    I have the same "badger stripes" in my beard as you.. and i'm pretty sure at one of the next SQL in the city conferences I can get an account manager to steal your knife and fork for DNA.

    in a nice way, everyone in this chat room is one of your children (DBA DNA) - which makes jeff my brother (not happy) 🙂 lol

    My "badger stripes" disappeared from my beard more than a decade ago and  I'm old enough now where "It Depends" has two meanings. 😀

    --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)

  • MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    without gail, steve and joe celko busting my chops then i'm left with jeff….. not fair.

    Heh... it's what brothers do. 😀

    --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)

  • Sean Lange wrote:

    Ed Wagner wrote:

    One day, we'll have to have a meeting of that Anti-RBAR Confederation you spoke about.  We'll schedule time to talk about food. 🙂

    We shouldn't schedule time to talk about food. We need to schedule time to go eat food!!!

    YUM!!!  I'll second that while I'm having seconds!

    --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)

  • Phil Parkin wrote:

    Following on with the food and music theme. To be sung to the tune of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody ... it's the Indian version. (Not my work.)

    That's hil-air-e-ass!!!

    --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 wrote:

    jonathan.crawford wrote:

    But have either of you ever been to Belgium?

    Let's just say, mussels, mayo on fries and a tripel is one of my favorite meals on the planet.

    Mayo on fries?  That's where it comes from? Belgium?  I freakin' love mayo on fries.  Better yet, Miracle Whip or Kosher pickle juice.  Since I also spent a good part of my life in New England, I also have a real appreciation for mussels and "little necks".  My brother and I were augmenting our incomes with Quahogs... we were divers and we were equipped with 92 cubic foot tanks.  We built an on-board sorter so we didn't have to "ring" the "hogs" for size.  The "little necks" (the ones you make Clams Casino with) and the "chowda" hogs (we called them "bigs") were each going for 27 cents a piece.  We could go places the "rakers" could never go because of the "hardware" (pretty hefty rocks) on the bottom.  The water was usually never more than about 12 feet deep and so we could go for almost 3 hours on each tank if we "sucked the bottoms dry".  We usually came in riding pretty low (full boat) and generally dug out between 1800 and 2400 "little necks" and a 1000 or two of "bigs" each in just one good day on 2 tanks each.

    We found a "hot spot" with very little "hardware" on the bottom down on the west coast of Gould Island, which is owned by the U.S. Navy (they also fire MK 48 heavyweight torpedoes from the island to test them).  We got hauled out of the water one day by a group of Navy Seals.  The reason?  I hadn't realized that our sorter looked like a multi-tube mortar launcher. 😀  We all had a great laugh on that one.  We also gave them enough "little necks" (really good raw and in Clams Casino) and "bigs" (to make "stuffies" and "chowda" with) for their upcoming Family Clambake on the beach the next day.  From then on, we had "armed guards" keeping an eye on our boat while we were "down under".

    --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)

  • Tonight, I'll be having haggis. Pray for me.

    "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

  • Grant Fritchey wrote:

    Tonight, I'll be having haggis. Pray for me.

    Tonight, I'll be in a theatre orchestra pit for the 5th time this week.  No need for prayers - I need coffee.  Lots of coffee.

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • I'm planning on doing another belly this summer when I do 2 pork shoulders and 6 chickens for my daughter's grad party.  She's undecided on the smoked macaroni and cheese.  I'm thinking of trying my hand at a beef brisket for the first time, too.  Heck, I might do a pork loin at the same time for Jeff.

    I'm hoping to get the Smokey Mountain to my parents' house and get the whole clan and the in-laws round and do a whole pork shoulder for them.  It will be good to able to cook for everybody and we've not got the space.

    I got a packer-cut brisket point over the summer and got good results. Not as juicy as it should be but definitely better than I've got with even large pieces of the British cut.  The problem with it is that it's too big, hard to get hold of and expensive to practice with often.  I can get whole shoulder of pork from the butcher up the road with a day to two's notice.  Packer cut brisket means trawling internet butchers and timing deliveries for when there's somebody at home.   If it goes wrong it's a lot of money wasted and if it goes right, there's an awful lot of beef for two of us.  I'm not quite confident enough to do one for the clan yet either.

     

     


    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.
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  • Grant Fritchey wrote:

    Tonight, I'll be having haggis. Pray for me.

    Haggis is great though! Haven't had it in ages mind, but I've enjoyed it every time I have. In Edinburgh for SQL Saturday by any chance?

    Thom~

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

  • Jeff Moden wrote:

    Grant Fritchey wrote:

    Let's just say, mussels, mayo on fries and a tripel is one of my favorite meals on the planet.

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    Grant Fritchey wrote:

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    (and PS Grant, you are our long lost mentor, I often wonder if my father wasn't either you or steve 🙂  - we know it's not brent, he likes DMV's too much)

    You're going to need to get a court order and some DNA, because I'm denying it until I see the test. HA!

    I have the same "badger stripes" in my beard as you.. and i'm pretty sure at one of the next SQL in the city conferences I can get an account manager to steal your knife and fork for DNA.

    in a nice way, everyone in this chat room is one of your children (DBA DNA) - which makes jeff my brother (not happy) 🙂 lol

    My "badger stripes" disappeared from my beard more than a decade ago and  I'm old enough now where "It Depends" has two meanings. 😀

    don't you dare deny the badger - i'm sad that you are questioning my parentage. 🙂 my pretend daddy was a User experience "developer" - I had hoped for more , but now i'm disappointed. I guess you and mommy never committed that transaction

    🙂

     

    MVDBA

  • haggis is great - it's the whiskey that makes it better

    MVDBA

  • MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    haggis is great - it's the whiskey that makes it better

    Careful with that 'e' there Mike.  It's normally 'whisky' you have with haggis.


    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

  • Neil Burton wrote:

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    haggis is great - it's the whiskey that makes it better

    Careful with that 'e' there Mike.  It's normally 'whisky' you have with haggis.

    depends where it comes from for the spelling … (i'll take an irish over a Glenmorangie any day of the week)

    personally I prefer ?????   . either from Nikka or Suntory

    anything really except Jack D

    ps the ?? are the Japanese symbols for whisk"e"y - I guess this site does recognise it either 🙁

     

    MVDBA

  • MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    personally I prefer ?????   . either from Nikka or Suntory

    anything really except Jack D

    One of my favourites is Monkey Shoulder. I'm also very partial to Aberfeldy. My Whisky collection is getting a little low at the moment though, down to about 12 bottles, and they're almost all only about 1/4 full. :'( Should have asked for more at Christmas. :/

    Thom~

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

  • Thom A wrote:

    Grant Fritchey wrote:

    Tonight, I'll be having haggis. Pray for me.

    Haggis is great though! Haven't had it in ages mind, but I've enjoyed it every time I have. In Edinburgh for SQL Saturday by any chance?

    Yep. First time in Scotland. I'm working in the hotel for a while, then I'm heading out this afternoon to take in a little of the town.

    "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

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