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- 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
Heh... I never miss anything about SSIS or SSRS. I normally use a .357 on every instance I find. My skills are improving... I can actually sense one being stood up and shoot through the wall to hit it without looking. Unfortunately, it's a skill that people seem to prefer that I leave off my resume. 😀
--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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Create a Tally Function (fnTally) - Jeff Moden wrote: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.
Do not talk to me about cookies and Jar files.... you might lose a limb 🙂
MVDBA
- Jeff Moden wrote: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
Heh... I never miss anything about SSIS or SSRS. I normally use a .357 on every instance I find. My skills are improving... I can actually sense one being stood up and shoot through the wall to hit it without looking. Unfortunately, it's a skill that people seem to prefer that I leave off my resume. 😀
You should see my M4 with holo sights, laser, torch, tracer rounds and 16x2 scope - I can take an mdx query out from miles - shame it's only 4mm airsoft pellets at 500ft per second
MVDBA
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Top are GF cookies, and they break apart quickly.
- 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
Having worked as a chef for the better part of a decade I was definitely not clean in the kitchen at home. But over the last 15 or so years I have changed my work habits and now the kitchen is typically cleaner when I finish cooking then it was when I started.
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I heard someone tell a rat controlling a garbage boy once that "clean sleeves are the mark of a good chef" and that clean workspaces lead to less accidents and faster prep.
But I just reheat stuff.
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Please follow Best Practices For Posting On Forums to receive quicker and higher quality responses - MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:Jeff Moden wrote: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
Heh... I never miss anything about SSIS or SSRS. I normally use a .357 on every instance I find. My skills are improving... I can actually sense one being stood up and shoot through the wall to hit it without looking. Unfortunately, it's a skill that people seem to prefer that I leave off my resume. 😀
You should see my M4 with holo sights, laser, torch, tracer rounds and 16x2 scope - I can take an mdx query out from miles - shame it's only 4mm airsoft pellets at 500ft per second
You need to step up to the Mark I Mod III pork chop launcher... you can eat the ammo you don't use. 😀
--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) - 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
Would you believe that 'we' chose to start a f!$%ing diet plan last week. Cut down on pasta, bread, potatoes and alcohol. We're supposed to reduce beans and pulses too, not to mention avoid cakes and biscuits. There's admittedly none of these things in the shops but that's not the point, it would nice to be able to buy them if I wanted. Also admittedly, we needed to lose a pound or two but we really picked our moment.
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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low carb diet? - I eat bread or fries once a week. It makes me sleepy.
I found that a lot of veg and chicken is a good way to go(grilled asparagus in honey and black pepper)... as for giving up beer - never ,it's my stress relief after dealing with the juniors in my team
MVDBA
- MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:
low carb diet? - I eat bread or fries once a week. It makes me sleepy.
I found that a lot of veg and chicken is a good way to go(grilled asparagus in honey and black pepper)... as for giving up beer - never ,it's my stress relief after dealing with the juniors in my team
Apparently it's not a low carb diet more 'controlled' carbs. It's all about balance or so I'm told. To be honest,
when my future was being mapped out for mewhen my wife was describing it, it was the only diet plan that I didn't immediately think 'cobblers'.It's the beer I miss most. It doesn't help that my new desk in the kitchen has a couple of boxes and bags of beer underneath it and I keep kicking them. There's a clink that sounds like nothing else.
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 PhilosopherHow to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537
- Neil Burton wrote:MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:
low carb diet? - I eat bread or fries once a week. It makes me sleepy.
I found that a lot of veg and chicken is a good way to go(grilled asparagus in honey and black pepper)... as for giving up beer - never ,it's my stress relief after dealing with the juniors in my team
Apparently it's not a low carb diet more 'controlled' carbs. It's all about balance or so I'm told. To be honest,
when my future was being mapped out for mewhen my wife was describing it, it was the only diet plan that I didn't immediately think 'cobblers'.It's the beer I miss most. It doesn't help that my new desk in the kitchen has a couple of boxes and bags of beer underneath it and I keep kicking them. There's a clink that sounds like nothing else.
lol - I have 4 words for you "put your foot down" man should not be told what to eat, man should decide.... the same as a dba decides how to normalise or set up his DR strategy 🙂
MVDBA
- MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:Neil Burton wrote:MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:
low carb diet? - I eat bread or fries once a week. It makes me sleepy.
I found that a lot of veg and chicken is a good way to go(grilled asparagus in honey and black pepper)... as for giving up beer - never ,it's my stress relief after dealing with the juniors in my team
Apparently it's not a low carb diet more 'controlled' carbs. It's all about balance or so I'm told. To be honest,
when my future was being mapped out for mewhen my wife was describing it, it was the only diet plan that I didn't immediately think 'cobblers'.It's the beer I miss most. It doesn't help that my new desk in the kitchen has a couple of boxes and bags of beer underneath it and I keep kicking them. There's a clink that sounds like nothing else.
lol - I have 4 words for you "put your foot down" man should not be told what to eat, man should decide.... the same as a dba decides how to normalise or set up his DR strategy 🙂
I tried that once and I should be getting full use of my foot back soon. Without wanting to sound too brainwashed, we're still eating what we did just measuring things out a bit more carefully. It seems a balanced diet isn't putting half a pound of mashed potatoes on each side of your plate.
It does still allow barbecue and with the weather improving and me working from home now there are many more opportunities to get the smoker out. I don't have to wait for the rare dry Saturday to cook in the yard.
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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half a pound of mashed potatoes???I would be asleep for a full day. I opt for salad. i.m a healthy 12.5 stone (I dropped to 9 stone at one point due to flu) .
one thing I can advise is that exercise is a better medicine than diet. I play hockey and that justifies a few treats (ice cream, steak, lasagne) , but it helps my heart and my mental health.. hope you have something physical to do that isn't computer related
MVDBA
- MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:
half a pound of mashed potatoes???I would be asleep for a full day. I opt for salad. i.m a healthy 12.5 stone (I dropped to 9 stone at one point due to flu) .
one thing I can advise is that exercise is a better medicine than diet. I play hockey and that justifies a few treats (ice cream, steak, lasagne) , but it helps my heart and my mental health.. hope you have something physical to do that isn't computer related
That may have been a slight exaggeration...
I try to run every morning and spend as much time on the hills as I could. We've also got an allotment that needs a fair bit of hard work. I'm not sure when we'll be able to get there again given recent developments unfortunately.
The running definitely helps me clear my head. Although it's surprising how many times the solution to a sticky problem will come to me as I'm slogging back up the hill to the house.
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 PhilosopherHow to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537
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My favorite link about weight loss:
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302773
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