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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003865 More actions · Answer 1

Heh... let the silliness continue. I just got an email saying...

KILL 99.9% OF BACTERIA & HARMFUL MICROBES
FORMS A PROTECTIVE SHIELD THAT DELAYS GROWTH OF HARMFUL MICROBES ON INTERIOR SURFACES
Reg $129.95
2 Hour Service

That 0.1% it didn't kill is going to be kickass and you've just paid $129.95 to remove all of it's competition, good and bad. 😀

--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)

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22919 More actions · Answer 2

Jeff Moden wrote:

Heh... let the silliness continue. I just got an email saying...
KILL 99.9% OF BACTERIA & HARMFUL MICROBES
FORMS A PROTECTIVE SHIELD THAT DELAYS GROWTH OF HARMFUL MICROBES ON INTERIOR SURFACES
Reg $129.95
2 Hour Service
That 0.1% it didn't kill is going to be kickass and you've just paid $129.95 to remove all of it's competition, good and bad. 😀

There's a product over here that claims to kill 99% or so of bacteria and viruses and I've always thought it's the 1% we need to worry about that are left. If bleach won't kill it, run away.

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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Thomas Rushton SSC-Insane Points: 22648 More actions · Answer 3

Neil Burton wrote:

There's a product over here that claims to kill 99% or so of bacteria and viruses and I've always thought it's the 1% we need to worry about that are left. If bleach won't kill it, run away.

The manufacturers of that product then changed the advertising tag line to "Kills all known germs. Dead." Which always seemed a bit redundant, and also has a nice get-out clause... "well, we didn't know about that germ when we tested it."

Thomas Rushton
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734459 More actions · Answer 4

I love the "or so". Does that mean 99.99% or 90% or maybe 50%. I mean, so isn't exactly a precise measurement

Jonathan AC Roberts SSCoach Points: 18263 More actions · Answer 5

Neil Burton wrote:

Jeff Moden wrote:
Heh... let the silliness continue. I just got an email saying...
KILL 99.9% OF BACTERIA & HARMFUL MICROBES
FORMS A PROTECTIVE SHIELD THAT DELAYS GROWTH OF HARMFUL MICROBES ON INTERIOR SURFACES
Reg $129.95
2 Hour Service
That 0.1% it didn't kill is going to be kickass and you've just paid $129.95 to remove all of it's competition, good and bad. 😀
There's a product over here that claims to kill 99% or so of bacteria and viruses and I've always thought it's the 1% we need to worry about that are left. If bleach won't kill it, run away.

You need to ingest what's called a "Minimal infective dose (MID)" to get infected by bacteria. So the theory is if you kill 99.9% of them there is not enough left to cause infection.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003865 More actions · Answer 6

Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:

Neil Burton wrote:
Jeff Moden wrote:
Heh... let the silliness continue. I just got an email saying...
KILL 99.9% OF BACTERIA & HARMFUL MICROBES
FORMS A PROTECTIVE SHIELD THAT DELAYS GROWTH OF HARMFUL MICROBES ON INTERIOR SURFACES
Reg $129.95
2 Hour Service
That 0.1% it didn't kill is going to be kickass and you've just paid $129.95 to remove all of it's competition, good and bad. 😀
There's a product over here that claims to kill 99% or so of bacteria and viruses and I've always thought it's the 1% we need to worry about that are left. If bleach won't kill it, run away.
You need to ingest what's called a "Minimal infective dose (MID)" to get infected by bacteria. So the theory is if you kill 99.9% of them there is not enough left to cause infection.

Yep... and there's a pretty good chance that if bleach doesn't kill a bug, you won't have to ingest much for it to "get you". I understand the theory of MID but, as someone actually has in their signature line, "In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they are not". 😀

--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)

jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6611 More actions · Answer 7

stupid question time. when you guys deal with X12 spec files, is there a reasonable argument *against* loading them into tables named for loops/segments/ref numbers?

I get that they are variable files, not all loops contain all things all the time, but that's what NULL would be for....is there some sort of referential integrity that PREVENTS such a method that I'm not thinking of?

I tire of not being able to find something or having to dig through the raw data because nobody thought we would need something

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172995 More actions · Answer 8

jonathan.crawford wrote:

stupid question time. when you guys deal with X12 spec files, is there a reasonable argument *against* loading them into tables named for loops/segments/ref numbers?
I get that they are variable files, not all loops contain all things all the time, but that's what NULL would be for....is there some sort of referential integrity that PREVENTS such a method that I'm not thinking of?
I tire of not being able to find something or having to dig through the raw data because nobody thought we would need something

So this is the point where I embarrass myself by admitting I don't know what X12 files are. Never heard of them before this.

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jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6611 More actions · Answer 9

EDI format files, 834 (Enrollment) , 820 (premiums) , 270/271 (verification files), 837 (claims remittance), etc.

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Jo Pattyn SSC-Dedicated Points: 32070 More actions · Answer 10

Me neither, apparently EDI-files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X12_Document_List

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003865 More actions · Answer 11

jonathan.crawford wrote:

stupid question time. when you guys deal with X12 spec files, is there a reasonable argument *against* loading them into tables named for loops/segments/ref numbers?
I get that they are variable files, not all loops contain all things all the time, but that's what NULL would be for....is there some sort of referential integrity that PREVENTS such a method that I'm not thinking of?
I tire of not being able to find something or having to dig through the raw data because nobody thought we would need something

If something needs to be searched or returned, then my feeling is the same as the one I have for XML, JSON, and a wealth of other database normalization sins... shred it, normalize it, store it as proper tables. Period.

--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)

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 12

Jeff Moden wrote:

jonathan.crawford wrote:
stupid question time. when you guys deal with X12 spec files, is there a reasonable argument *against* loading them into tables named for loops/segments/ref numbers?
I get that they are variable files, not all loops contain all things all the time, but that's what NULL would be for....is there some sort of referential integrity that PREVENTS such a method that I'm not thinking of?
I tire of not being able to find something or having to dig through the raw data because nobody thought we would need something
If something needs to be searched or returned, then my feeling is the same as the one I have for XML, JSON, and a wealth of other database normalization sins... shred it, normalize it, store it as proper tables. Period.

I agree and it has been my approach for all of the EDI/ASN.1/XML/JSON/OOML and quite a few other formats, if handling the information in a relational database, then shred and normalize.

😎

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50083 More actions · Answer 13

Well, I *know* this enforced isolation is starting to get to me...

I keep finding myself starting to "retail therapy" on stuff I don't really need (as of this morning, I was contemplating putting RGB lighting in my home PC... BLINKING LIGHTS for cryin' out loud that I'd probably leave off anyways!)

Been thinking about also getting a planer for the woodworking I do, although that's even a hard sell for myself as I don't do a lot of said woodworking. Plus I've heard they're ridiculously loud and it'd be in the basement...

Anyone else running into this?

Stuart Davies SSCoach Points: 19505 More actions · Answer 14

I hear you Jason.

The number of times I have nearly bought a wood lathe (for which I have no space) over the past few weeks is the 12th parameter for dbbc_timewarp when asking for the data to be undeleted. ??

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There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand (the world). There is no such thing as a dumb question. ― Carl Sagan
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Stuart Davies SSCoach Points: 19505 More actions · Answer 15

I hear you Jason.

The number of times I have nearly bought a wood lathe (for which I have no space) over the past few weeks is the 12th parameter for dbbc_timewarp when asking for the data to be undeleted.

-------------------------------Posting Data Etiquette - Jeff Moden [/url]Smart way to ask a question
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand (the world). There is no such thing as a dumb question. ― Carl Sagan
I would never join a club that would allow me as a member - Groucho Marx