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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 1

David,

You just made my day!

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Luckily I was out on the balcony so no keyboard loss ??

This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Eirikur Eiriksson.

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 2

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 SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 3

Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:

David,
You just made my day!
😎
Luckily I was out on the balcony so no keyboard loss

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 4

Here is something for a weekend tumbler

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Submit your best effort for this query:

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 5

Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:

Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:
David,
You just made my day!
😎
Luckily I was out on the balcony so no keyboard loss

Steve! this is a bug, an edit resulted in a separate posting.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398690 More actions · Answer 6

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 Roosevelt

Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734449 More actions · Answer 7

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

SSC Guru

Points: 734449

August 21, 2020 at 2:24 pm

#3782305

Feel good shot of the day, born last night

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 8

Thanks for sharing Steve!

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Looking good for a 12 hour old...

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

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.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 10

david.edwards 76768 wrote:

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

Heh... yeah... you fit into this crowd just fine. 😀

--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)

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50083 More actions · Answer 11

You know I've been gone a while when Jeff replies to a question I posted with a Google search!

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david.edwards 76768 Ten Centuries Points: 1246 More actions · Answer 12

They say that helping others can also improve one's own learning. Partly for that reason, partly altruistic and partly as another avenue to pick up useful tips, I joined a SQL Facebook group a few weeks ago.

I figured I'm not at the level to be able to contribute much here... yet, with the august, hardcore, greybeards watching threads like hawks, ready to pounce and impart the wisdom of many decades 😀

I really regret it. If you think the questions here can be bad.... has anyone else ever looked? The best questions appear to be a context-free one-liner and maybe a grainy photo of a screen, or handwritten query/exam question/homework/interview assessment question.

On the other hand, it's done wonders for the inferiority complex I've developed reading some of the threads here!

This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by david.edwards 76768.

"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?

x SSC-Insane Points: 23660 More actions · Answer 13

I love the grainy pictures of problems, I send my solutions back in pictures with even lower resolution! Heh maybe I'm just old and cranky but I get a cheap laugh out of it.

david.edwards 76768 Ten Centuries Points: 1246 More actions · Answer 14

x wrote:

I love the grainy pictures of problems, I send my solutions back in pictures with even lower resolution! Heh maybe I'm just old and cranky but I get a cheap laugh out of it.

Cheap laughs are the best laughs 😉

"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?

Steve Collins SSCrazy Points: 2068 More actions · Answer 15

Yay!! Just passed my goal of 1,500 points on Stack Overflow which means I can now create a tag for the JsonAutoService C# data access library. I began on August 9th and in 4 weeks I'm now in 4th place overall (username SteveC) for the past 30 days in the sql-server tag.

https://stackoverflow.com/tags/sql-server/topusers

It's been intense. Now that the goal has been met I'm going to relax a little bit over there. I was throwing down like crazy. Phew! Glad the pressure is off and now I can focus on getting the message out about JsonAutoService

Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können