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Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • March 17, 2020 at 4:43 pm

    #3735092

    Here is a new topic that we all should be thinking, learning, and discussing.

    https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/earn-it-act

  • March 17, 2020 at 5:12 pm

    #3735100

    Lynn Pettis wrote:

    Here is a new topic that we all should be thinking, learning, and discussing.

    https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/earn-it-act

    Added some links to text and coverage there. Not a new topic, really, same issue as unlocking the iPhones of suspects for police. Non-starter, things are either encrypted or they are not.

    Should bad guys be caught? Absolutely. Is one child exploited too many? Absolutely. Is this the way? nope.

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  • March 17, 2020 at 5:17 pm

    #3735102

    Thanks for the links, and I agree.

     

  • March 17, 2020 at 5:36 pm

    #3735110

    I don't know about anyone else, but if the virus doesn't get me, staying home with these kids for weeks certainly will!

    Michael L John
    If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
    To properly post on a forum:
    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/61537/

  • March 17, 2020 at 5:46 pm

    #3735112

    Being divorced with grown children not living at home, I don't have that problem.

     

  • March 17, 2020 at 6:12 pm

    #3735116

    Michael L John wrote:

    I don't know about anyone else, but if the virus doesn't get me, staying home with these kids for weeks certainly will!

    How are you my friend and how are things in "the Pit"?

    😎

     

  • March 17, 2020 at 6:21 pm

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    Thom A wrote:

    Took me 3 days and 4 trips to a supermarket to buy Toilet Paper... I honestly thought I was going to have to "borrow" (aka Steal) some from work. Still not been able to buy any frozen mince or dried pasta, and a few other bits I'm running low on. I use normally a lot of the things people are panic buying as I don't live with anyone else. Fresh simply doesn't last long enough for me to use it all unless I want to be visiting the store every day or 2 for the stuff I need for dinner that day (and doing it that way gets expensive).

    It's insane seeing people just picking up 20 cans of Baked beans or tinned spaghetti and thinking that "ok". I'm starting to feel like I'm going to need to hoard a few items just so that when I run out in a couple weeks I don't have the same problem; which just makes everything worse...

    So I had 5 or so rolls last week, but caught them stocking at Wal Mart and bought 2 8 packs, which should get us another couple weeks. Saw Sunday that some stores have signs limiting # per person you can buy. Heard yesterday that some stores have police on the aisles to enforce this.

    Wife is out now trying to buy a few things as some trucking worries are cropping up. Went out to buy a few dozen frozen burritos from a local guy to support him and give us a few more days of isolation.

  • March 17, 2020 at 6:51 pm

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    Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:

    Michael L John wrote:

    I don't know about anyone else, but if the virus doesn't get me, staying home with these kids for weeks certainly will!

    How are you my friend and how are things in "the Pit"?

    😎

    Hunkered down like everyone else!

    Michael L John
    If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
    To properly post on a forum:
    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/61537/

  • March 17, 2020 at 7:51 pm

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    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    So I had 5 or so rolls last week, but caught them stocking at Wal Mart and bought 2 8 packs, which should get us another couple weeks. Saw Sunday that some stores have signs limiting # per person you can buy. Heard yesterday that some stores have police on the aisles to enforce this.

    Wife is out now trying to buy a few things as some trucking worries are cropping up. Went out to buy a few dozen frozen burritos from a local guy to support him and give us a few more days of isolation.

    I'm sure you'll be good for a while. You just have to decide which horse you like least...

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  • March 17, 2020 at 8:01 pm

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    I'm glad my wife isn't on this thread...

  • March 17, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    #3735152

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    I'm glad my wife isn't on this thread...

    I'll bet she is too! 😀

    --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)

  • March 17, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    #3735176

    All of you are. If she saw a few of these posts, she'd sneak onto my desktop and start banning your accounts.

     

  • March 17, 2020 at 11:05 pm

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    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    All of you are. If she saw a few of these posts, she'd sneak onto my desktop and start banning your accounts.

    or she would create a new account and start having fun with/like everyone else

  • March 17, 2020 at 11:05 pm

    #3735178

    So, our office is finding out just how poorly our VPN works.  First, most obvious problem, they can't do a split tunnel so internet traffic doesn't go through the VPN (security rules.)  Second, well, turns out they were ALLOWING Facebook / Youtube / etc on the network and through the VPN (and I'm sure there were PLENTY of people hitting those, they sent out an announcement they were going to turn on blocking of them.)  Third, although I can't confirm this one, I'd bet there's more firewalls / IDP / IPS / DPS / anti-malware / anti-virus scanners hitting every single packet traversing the firewall (and probably more than one of each.)

    So, lord help me and please don't take away my DBA card, I had to walk a developer through, over the phone, something...

    Horrible...

    Flipping a database for one of his applications from Full recovery to Simple and back again to clear the log because the backup solution creates temp files in the \Windows\temp directory which is (was) on a teeny-tiny C:\ drive that couldn't handle the data in the log when the backup hit so I had no other way (well, I could've run a log backup to another disk in SQL, but that's its' own kettle of rotten fish) to get them back up and running.  Thankfully we got the sysadmins to slap another 40GB on the C:\ and extend into it plus the dev made some tweaks to the Agent job that was clobbering the log, so hopefully tomorrow will be quieter...

    To top it ALL off, I was feeling crummy this AM, with what are reported to be some of the symptoms of Covid, so my wife wound up staying home (which has a plus to it, before she had to go in, now they've set her up to work from home.)  Called the Drs office, based on the symptoms I reported, they're indicating it's probably a cold, unless I get worse or a temp...

    Fun times, fun times.

  • March 17, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    #3735184

    Hope you feel better, Jason, and it's not serious.

     

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