April 14, 2022 at 11:24 am
Out of interest, has anyone heard or seen from Gail in awhile? I haven't seen them about in ages. I noticed that their website has been down a little while too (I have habit of sharing some of theirarticles to colleagues and unfortunates on the internet, such as their "No, this isn't a bug in T-SQL" post about unqualified columns in sub queries, which is a personal favourite). I recall they said they they'd struggled for a while, especially over COVID, so I hope they are doing well if anyone has heard from them.
Gail last retweeted something on Twitter on 4/12.
Is Gail now going by they / them? I only ask because I didn't hear about it and I don't want to misgender Gail.
April 14, 2022 at 4:46 pm
Gail is around on Slack quite a bit now, if you want a joining link to the slack SQL community let me know.
I know she is busy as she (I believe she still goes via the feminine pronouns, apologies if not) works for MSFT on the cloud side of things so I know that can be a lot to handle.
April 14, 2022 at 5:12 pm
Is Gail now going by they / them? I only ask because I didn't hear about it and I don't want to misgender Gail.
This is just a habit of mine now; I basically refer to anyone I personally haven't met in person as "they" on the internet now to ensure I don't offend anyone; it's not that I'm attempting to misgender them (her), I just stick to gender neutral almost permanently to not misgender. (The final straw when when I referred to someone as "she/her" when they had a woman as their profile image, but they were a man using a woman for their image, and were upset by me calling them a woman.)
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk
April 14, 2022 at 8:36 pm
Brandie Tarvin wrote:Is Gail now going by they / them? I only ask because I didn't hear about it and I don't want to misgender Gail.
This is just a habit of mine now; I basically refer to anyone I personally haven't met in person as "they" on the internet now to ensure I don't offend anyone; it's not that I'm attempting to misgender them (her), I just stick to gender neutral almost permanently to not misgender. (The final straw when when I referred to someone as "she/her" when they had a woman as their profile image, but they were a man using a woman for their image, and were upset by me calling them a woman.)
I would be offended of being misquantified if someone refers to me as they. Although, it would make sense considering my multiple personalities.
However, I know that Gail has had problems with people confusing her with a man because she uses Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) as her avatar.
April 14, 2022 at 11:13 pm
Thom A wrote:Brandie Tarvin wrote:Is Gail now going by they / them? I only ask because I didn't hear about it and I don't want to misgender Gail.
This is just a habit of mine now; I basically refer to anyone I personally haven't met in person as "they" on the internet now to ensure I don't offend anyone; it's not that I'm attempting to misgender them (her), I just stick to gender neutral almost permanently to not misgender. (The final straw when when I referred to someone as "she/her" when they had a woman as their profile image, but they were a man using a woman for their image, and were upset by me calling them a woman.)
I would be offended of being misquantified if someone refers to me as they. Although, it would make sense considering my multiple personalities.
However, I know that Gail has had problems with people confusing her with a man because she uses Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) as her avatar.
I have lived with being called her/she all my life, it is something I sort of ignore but take the time to correct the individual. Anyone who has been around ssc as seen this happen to me and some of you have jumped in and corrected people before I have had the chance (thank you, by the way).
April 26, 2022 at 12:33 pm
So I'm updating my internal-to-the-business resume and I'm trying to figure out the best way to spell out "one-stop shop" without actually using those words. How else, in formal / resume terms, would one refer to a place where the DBAs do everything from security to backups to development to reporting to BI work to general administration (non-production and production) and deployment?
Thoughts on the best way to phrase this would be appreciated.
April 26, 2022 at 12:34 pm
Okay, this is VERY weird. My last post, when I hit submit, errored out with "Are you sure you want to do that?"
And when I hit submit again, it accepted it and posted. Anyone else ever see this behavior?
April 26, 2022 at 1:12 pm
Okay, this is VERY weird. My last post, when I hit submit, errored out with "Are you sure you want to do that?"
And when I hit submit again, it accepted it and posted. Anyone else ever see this behavior?
From time to time, yeah. I haven't in my recent posts, but I used to get it more often than not.
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk
April 26, 2022 at 1:15 pm
I've always been concerned but, as I get older, I seriously worry about the medical world and hospitals and the people in them when I see things like the following...
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/conditional-sum-in-sql
That's nothing. Talk to Tim Ford sometime about all the crap he used to go through at hospitals. It's amazing we don't all die the moment we set foot in them.
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April 26, 2022 at 1:17 pm
Okay, this is VERY weird. My last post, when I hit submit, errored out with "Are you sure you want to do that?"
And when I hit submit again, it accepted it and posted. Anyone else ever see this behavior?
Well, are you sure?
Ha!
Please, don't take offense. I had the same thing happen just a minute ago and I was surprised too. I had to double check that I hadn't done something stupid. Not sure where that comes from.
"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
April 26, 2022 at 1:20 pm
Okay, this is VERY weird. My last post, when I hit submit, errored out with "Are you sure you want to do that?"
And when I hit submit again, it accepted it and posted. Anyone else ever see this behavior?
Yes, happens to me approximately 20% of the time - it's happened in both Chrome and Edge.
April 26, 2022 at 1:35 pm
Okay, this is VERY weird. My last post, when I hit submit, errored out with "Are you sure you want to do that?"
And when I hit submit again, it accepted it and posted. Anyone else ever see this behavior?
I've had some weird behaviour:
I was posting on this thread: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/find-maximum-qty-of-fruits-regardless-of-fruit-which-could-be-bought-by-50
I posted a reply that I think should be on page 2, but there is no page 2 and my post it is not accessible from the original thread:
April 26, 2022 at 1:55 pm
So I'm updating my internal-to-the-business resume and I'm trying to figure out the best way to spell out "one-stop shop" without actually using those words. How else, in formal / resume terms, would one refer to a place where the DBAs do everything from security to backups to development to reporting to BI work to general administration (non-production and production) and deployment?
Thoughts on the best way to phrase this would be appreciated.
Something like
"Providing solutions to all levels of problems within both data and business intelligence domains."
😎
April 26, 2022 at 5:50 pm
Jeff Moden wrote:I've always been concerned but, as I get older, I seriously worry about the medical world and hospitals and the people in them when I see things like the following...
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/conditional-sum-in-sql
That's nothing. Talk to Tim Ford sometime about all the crap he used to go through at hospitals. It's amazing we don't all die the moment we set foot in them.
Heh... there was one time where I thought I was having a heart-attack. It was actually a pre-cursor to the AFIB I currently "enjoy". I was admitted. One of the first things that happened when I got to my room was they took my blood pressure. I asked what it was... 90-60 and a pulse rate of 58. Cool... I always had that going for me even though I had been smoking for decades (which a gave up a year ago as of 4/29/2021). Then, the nurse handed be a cup with a few pills in it. I asked her to explain what they were. The last one was to <insert drum roll here> "lower your blood pressure".
She couldn't understand why I refused to take that one. 🙁
So, like you said, Grant...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
May 9, 2022 at 8:49 pm
Jeff, I've been off this site for several years, came back today to check whether the thread for "are the posted questions getting worse?" was still alive and kicking. 14 years and 4,400 pages later, it is!
Saw you mention that you've been tobacco free for a year and I just wanted to say: CONGRATULATIONS!! No tar for Mr. RBAR!!
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