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MVDBA (Mike Vessey) SSC-Insane Points: 21797 More actions · Answer 1

the other one, we are lacking a a decent podcast - steve used to do one, but I've lost track of it.

the other topic - with ROLLUP on a group by statement... i know how to use it, but i have dizens of people (working from home ...sigh) what would love a deep delve into these features

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173108 More actions · Answer 2

Podcasts are just audio, though, right? How does a podcast assist when people can't see code or examples?

Or are you talking about a different type of podcast?

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MVDBA (Mike Vessey) SSC-Insane Points: 21797 More actions · Answer 3

Brandie Tarvin wrote:

Podcasts are just audio, though, right? How does a podcast assist when people can't see code or examples?
Or are you talking about a different type of podcast?

for me, podcasts have taught me Russian and Polish , that's nothing you can do visually- you get the basics and inspiration from the podcast and then go and learn yourself.

everyone has their own way of learning and some people like reading, some like watching and some like hearing... personally for me I like to stick my headphones on during the day and if I hit a bit in a podcast that intrigues me then I pause and go do some investigation

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MVDBA (Mike Vessey) SSC-Insane Points: 21797 More actions · Answer 4

Grant - just reading your wordpress blog - it strikes me that I'm missing some skills in monitoring SSRS and SSIS using XE... might be a nice topic

we all take SSIS and SSRS for granted, but maybe we should monitor them more

MVDBA

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 5

Shifting gears a bit, today's editorial on Routine has a broken discussion link. The editorial is all about the changes people are having to make because of recent world events. The comic at the following link epitomizes my feelings on the subject, mostly because I didn't have much of a life (according to most people) to begin with and now I really digging it because my 10 minute commute went to 15 seconds. 😀

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2020/03/19/stay-at-home/

--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
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738632 More actions · Answer 6

MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

... worse, my Monday morning ritual is to leave early and grab a mcdonalds breakfast - they were closed 🙁

Not sure if you like cooking, but it's something that's a nice way to break away from other stuff. I find it very relaxing. Baked cookies last night, made some fried potatoes this am and left a bunch on the stove for others to enjoy while I'm working.

MVDBA (Mike Vessey) SSC-Insane Points: 21797 More actions · Answer 7

Jeff Moden wrote:

Shifting gears a bit, today's editorial on Routine has a broken discussion link. The editorial is all about the changes people are having to make because of recent world events. The comic at the following link epitomizes my feelings on the subject, mostly because I didn't have much of a life (according to most people) to begin with and now I really digging it because my 10 minute commute went to 15 seconds. 😀
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2020/03/19/stay-at-home/

Ok - that was so funny that I nearly had a trouser accident.

the red lines below are a fith of our team that are quite happy to self isolate - i estimate we are 80% down... i'm here with a PM and a director, that's all. normally 40 people in this building

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738632 More actions · Answer 8

Jeff Moden wrote:

Shifting gears a bit, today's editorial on Routine has a broken discussion link. The editorial is all about the changes people are having to make because of recent world events. The comic at the following link epitomizes my feelings on the subject, mostly because I didn't have much of a life (according to most people) to begin with and now I really digging it because my 10 minute commute went to 15 seconds. 😀
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2020/03/19/stay-at-home/

It's up now here: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/having-no-routine

Broken scheduler.

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19269 More actions · Answer 9

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:
... worse, my Monday morning ritual is to leave early and grab a mcdonalds breakfast - they were closed 🙁
Not sure if you like cooking, but it's something that's a nice way to break away from other stuff. I find it very relaxing. Baked cookies last night, made some fried potatoes this am and left a bunch on the stove for others to enjoy while I'm working.

I sometimes take a break from work and bake bread, pizzas or suchlike. My wife likes the results but I'm not the neatest in the kitchen. One day I was following some instructions, which said "Now leave the dough on a heavily floured surface". I took a look around the kitchen and thought "That will be the floor".

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738632 More actions · Answer 10

LOL, I'm fairly clean when I cook, washing pots and dishes while I can. I like to have things relatively clean and neat when I'm done.

Now my FIL, I'm not sure he cleans anything and tries desparately to get flour on every surface and use as many things as possible. I somewhat cringe when he wants to cook something.

I did manage to fill the jar yesterday

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MVDBA (Mike Vessey) SSC-Insane Points: 21797 More actions · Answer 11

BrainDonor wrote:

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:
... worse, my Monday morning ritual is to leave early and grab a mcdonalds breakfast - they were closed 🙁
Not sure if you like cooking, but it's something that's a nice way to break away from other stuff. I find it very relaxing. Baked cookies last night, made some fried potatoes this am and left a bunch on the stove for others to enjoy while I'm working.
I sometimes take a break from work and bake bread, pizzas or suchlike. My wife likes the results but I'm not the neatest in the kitchen. One day I was following some instructions, which said "Now leave the dough on a heavily floured surface". I took a look around the kitchen and thought "That will be the floor".

I'm not a morning person, I like quiet thinking and preparing for the day. the evening is for cooking and figuring out what went wrong today.

I suppose it's a constant cycle of post analysis and pre-prep

MVDBA

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399278 More actions · Answer 12

MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

Grant - just reading your wordpress blog - it strikes me that I'm missing some skills in monitoring SSRS and SSIS using XE... might be a nice topic
we all take SSIS and SSRS for granted, but maybe we should monitor them more

It's not an area I've worked with a ton, but yeah, SSIS has a bunch of metrics within XE.

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Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99143 More actions · Answer 13

Currently we have 13 people in the IT department andwe have 3 working from home, and 1 of those is a permantent home worker, so we only really have an extra 2 not in the office. I believe they have a "few" home working in the other departments, but I doubt we even have 10% of staff working from home at the moment; suspect we have more in isolation and not working from home right now.

Thom~

Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
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MVDBA (Mike Vessey) SSC-Insane Points: 21797 More actions · Answer 14

Thom A wrote:

Currently we have 13 people in the IT department andwe have 3 working from home, and 1 of those is a permantent home worker, so we only really have an extra 2 not in the office. I believe they have a "few" home working in the other departments, but I doubt we even have 10% of staff working from home at the moment; suspect we have more in isolation and not working from home right now.

can you lend me a few? i'll take the few that are "not working from home" but in isolation 🙂

MVDBA

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 15

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

LOL, I'm fairly clean when I cook, washing pots and dishes while I can. I like to have things relatively clean and neat when I'm done.
Now my FIL, I'm not sure he cleans anything and tries desparately to get flour on every surface and use as many things as possible. I somewhat cringe when he wants to cook something.
I did manage to fill the jar yesterday

Heh... that looks nasty... like someone took a bite out of a cookie and put it back in the jar.

--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)