Are the posted questions getting worse?
- david.edwards 76768 wrote:
I'm somewhat starved of mentors and peers being the only person at my firm responsible for "all things database" (and reporting), Sole and Accidental DBA, while also being backstop for most Line of Business applications, the developers' troubleshooting help, third line support and plenty else!
Sounds like my job :-/
david.edwards 76768 wrote:Might be the right place for me to ask "stupid" questions, that I probably should should know, without fear of a flaming tongue-lashing from You Know Who 😉
Seems like I only ask stupid questions myself and I've had several tongue-lashings in my time, so don't worry about it. It is all part of life, experience and learning. 🙂
And as for knowing everything, nobody knows everything but there are great mentors on this site, too many to mention, I use them all the time and I'm still learning.
So welcome 🙂
Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon. - david.edwards 76768 wrote:Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:david.edwards 76768 wrote:
As a (mostly) lurker on this esteemed forum for around five years, I've only recently come across this thread.
I've not managed to consume all 4000+ pages to find the answer, so as a point of order: is this a general discussion/AOB/rant thread... and can anyone join in?
The guitar discussion piqued my interest 🙂
Welcome to the "thread"!
😎
For some of us, this is the next thing to jamming by the water cooler 😉
Thank you. Sounds like a nice place to hang out. I'm somewhat starved of mentors and peers being the only person at my firm responsible for "all things database" (and reporting), Sole and Accidental DBA, while also being backstop for most Line of Business applications, the developers' troubleshooting help, third line support and plenty else!
Might be the right place for me to ask "stupid" questions, that I probably should should know, without fear of a flaming tongue-lashing from You Know Who 😉 (Although I respect his undoubted knowledge and experience, the rip-it-all-up-and-start-again fixes are not always possible when dealing with third-party applications) 😉
He he, the only questions that are stupid are the ones that are not asked!
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- david.edwards 76768 wrote:
As a (mostly) lurker on this esteemed forum for around five years, I've only recently come across this thread.
I've not managed to consume all 4000+ pages to find the answer, so as a point of order: is this a general discussion/AOB/rant thread... and can anyone join in?
The guitar discussion piqued my interest 🙂
Imagine the lady in Poltergeist: ALL ARE WELCOME!
Come on in. The water is fine. This is just the local water cooler (bubbler/fountain/whatever your local vernacular is for a central location that dispenses water in some form).
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore RooseveltAuthor of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning - Grant Fritchey wrote:
Imagine the lady in Poltergeist: ALL ARE WELCOME!
Come on in. The water is fine. This is just the local water cooler (bubbler/fountain/whatever your local vernacular is for a central location that dispenses water in some form).
Pub? 😀
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
— Samuel Johnson
I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now? - david.edwards 76768 wrote:Grant Fritchey wrote:
Imagine the lady in Poltergeist: ALL ARE WELCOME!
Come on in. The water is fine. This is just the local water cooler (bubbler/fountain/whatever your local vernacular is for a central location that dispenses water in some form).
Pub? 😀
Now that is an interesting one, you talking proper English pub or a "drink alike"?
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Not sure if this has been done, but I thought I'd have a little fun on a rare day off:
The MSSQL DBA's Prayer:
Our Master, which art in DataCenter
Two-part be thy name
Thy Schema come
Thy backups done
On site, as they are off-site
Select us this getutcdate our dataset
And forgive us our cursors
As we forgive your defaults that impact performance
And lead us not into recursion
But deliver us from corruption
For thine is the atomicity, the consistency and the isolation
For ever and ever
We hope
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
— Samuel Johnson
I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now? -
David,
You just made my day!
😎
Luckily I was out on the balcony so no keyboard loss ??
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Just to sum it up, I think I owe Jeff at least five keyboards, few rodents and at least 12 coffees, I know it is a low figure but I am working on it
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- Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:
David,
You just made my day!
😎
Luckily I was out on the balcony so no keyboard loss
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Here is something for a weekend tumbler
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Submit your best effort for this query:
- david.edwards 76768 wrote:Grant Fritchey wrote:
Imagine the lady in Poltergeist: ALL ARE WELCOME!
Come on in. The water is fine. This is just the local water cooler (bubbler/fountain/whatever your local vernacular is for a central location that dispenses water in some form).
Pub? 😀
Better still
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore RooseveltAuthor of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning -
Feel good shot of the day, born last night
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Thanks for sharing Steve!
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Looking good for a 12 hour old...
- david.edwards 76768 wrote:Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:david.edwards 76768 wrote:
As a (mostly) lurker on this esteemed forum for around five years, I've only recently come across this thread.
I've not managed to consume all 4000+ pages to find the answer, so as a point of order: is this a general discussion/AOB/rant thread... and can anyone join in?
The guitar discussion piqued my interest 🙂
Welcome to the "thread"!
😎
For some of us, this is the next thing to jamming by the water cooler 😉
Thank you. Sounds like a nice place to hang out. I'm somewhat starved of mentors and peers being the only person at my firm responsible for "all things database" (and reporting), Sole and Accidental DBA, while also being backstop for most Line of Business applications, the developers' troubleshooting help, third line support and plenty else!
Might be the right place for me to ask "stupid" questions, that I probably should should know, without fear of a flaming tongue-lashing from You Know Who 😉 (Although I respect his undoubted knowledge and experience, the rip-it-all-up-and-start-again fixes are not always possible when dealing with third-party applications) 😉
Yes, you could ask tech questions here, but it is a little bit frowned upon depending on how technical or in depth you are going. Real in depth, start a new thread and pop in here to point us to it. Simple questions, not much discuss go for it.
Welcome aboard and the Thread.
And yes, there are many people here that can help you as mentors here.
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