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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 1

jcrawf02 (1/19/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
My reply to that would be "We are a school district, we can't even afford to spell ORACLE, let alone run it." 😛
ooh, that's not going to help your test scores if your kids can't spell O-R-A-C-L-E... :hehe:

Good thing it IS the kids that get tested and not us. They, at least, CAN spell O-R-A-C-L-E.

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 2

Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
jcrawf02 (1/19/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
My reply to that would be "We are a school district, we can't even afford to spell ORACLE, let alone run it." 😛
ooh, that's not going to help your test scores if your kids can't spell O-R-A-C-L-E... :hehe:
Good thing it IS the kids that get tested and not us. They, at least, CAN spell O-R-A-C-L-E.

How would they spell SQL? S-E-Q-U-E-L?

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281344 More actions · Answer 3

Alvin Ramard (1/19/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
jcrawf02 (1/19/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
My reply to that would be "We are a school district, we can't even afford to spell ORACLE, let alone run it." 😛
ooh, that's not going to help your test scores if your kids can't spell O-R-A-C-L-E... :hehe:
Good thing it IS the kids that get tested and not us. They, at least, CAN spell O-R-A-C-L-E.
How would they spell SQL? S-E-Q-U-E-L?

No, it would be S-E-E-K-W-U-L

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 4

CirquedeSQLeil (1/19/2010)
Alvin Ramard (1/19/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
jcrawf02 (1/19/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
My reply to that would be "We are a school district, we can't even afford to spell ORACLE, let alone run it." 😛
ooh, that's not going to help your test scores if your kids can't spell O-R-A-C-L-E... :hehe:
Good thing it IS the kids that get tested and not us. They, at least, CAN spell O-R-A-C-L-E.
How would they spell SQL? S-E-Q-U-E-L?
No, it would be S-E-E-K-W-U-L

Didn't you mean S-E-E-K-W-O-O-L?

Alvin Ramard
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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281344 More actions · Answer 5

Alvin Ramard (1/19/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (1/19/2010)
Alvin Ramard (1/19/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
jcrawf02 (1/19/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
My reply to that would be "We are a school district, we can't even afford to spell ORACLE, let alone run it." 😛
ooh, that's not going to help your test scores if your kids can't spell O-R-A-C-L-E... :hehe:
Good thing it IS the kids that get tested and not us. They, at least, CAN spell O-R-A-C-L-E.
How would they spell SQL? S-E-Q-U-E-L?
No, it would be S-E-E-K-W-U-L
Didn't you mean S-E-E-K-W-O-O-L?

See, I can't even spell it.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 6

CirquedeSQLeil (1/19/2010)
If you need anybody to review...

Thanks very much, that's very kind of you! 🙂

I hoping to have it finished tomorrow and would appreciate reviews from anyone interested.

Without giving too much away, you'll need access to a 2008 server (any edition).

A bit of C# knowledge, T-SQL expertise, and general proof-reading skills are all of great interest!

Please drop me an email* if this interests you, and I'll send a copy of the article as soon as 😉

Paul

* click on my name and choose 'send email to member'.

edit: various clarifications, removed the AdventureWorks database requirement.

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Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 7

This has the potential for fun.... 😉

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic850261-8-1.aspx

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65144 More actions · Answer 8

CirquedeSQLeil (1/19/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (1/19/2010)
What are writing about, Paul?
I started writing my first article 9 months ago and it isn't finished yet.:crying:
Similar situation for me, only it has been 3 or 4 months.

Ooops! 18 months. :blush:

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 9

David Burrows (1/20/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (1/19/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (1/19/2010)
What are writing about, Paul?
I started writing my first article 9 months ago and it isn't finished yet.:crying:
Similar situation for me, only it has been 3 or 4 months.
Ooops! 18 months. :blush:

Well, I can say that I had a baby girl's birth meanwhile, as (partial) justification. My free time has dropped dramatically...

-- Gianluca Sartori

LutzM SSC Guru Points: 107049 More actions · Answer 10

Gianluca Sartori (1/20/2010)
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Gianluca Sartori (1/19/2010)
What are writing about, Paul?
I started writing my first article 9 months ago and it isn't finished yet.:crying:
Well, I can say that I had a baby girl's birth meanwhile, as (partial) justification. My free time has dropped dramatically...

Coincidence? 😀

Lutz
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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 11

lmu92 (1/20/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (1/20/2010)
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Gianluca Sartori (1/19/2010)
What are writing about, Paul?
I started writing my first article 9 months ago and it isn't finished yet.:crying:
Well, I can say that I had a baby girl's birth meanwhile, as (partial) justification. My free time has dropped dramatically...
Coincidence? 😀

LOL! Giulia is 6 months old today, just coincidence.

It's my article that is having an elephant gestation.

-- Gianluca Sartori

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 12

lmu92 (1/20/2010)
Gianluca Sartori (1/20/2010)
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Gianluca Sartori (1/19/2010)
What are writing about, Paul?
I started writing my first article 9 months ago and it isn't finished yet.:crying:
Well, I can say that I had a baby girl's birth meanwhile, as (partial) justification. My free time has dropped dramatically...
Coincidence? 😀

Heh easily distracted!

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 13

Dave Ballantyne (1/20/2010)
This has the potential for fun.... 😉
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic850261-8-1.aspx

That one really boggles the mind, eh? I'd like to talk that that OP's manager. Stay tuned folks; there might be a job opening up soon.

:w00t:

Alvin Ramard
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Chad Crawford SSChampion Points: 11610 More actions · Answer 14

Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
Totally different subject UNRELATED to questions getting worse. Last week I started working on setting up linked servers on our new blade servers (x64) under SQL Server 2008 EE. One of the servers needs to link to a MySQL database. Okay, no problem, download the 5.01 driver, install it, and setup the Linked Server. PeopleSoft Admin tries creating one of the views used to access data from teh MySQL Database, error....

I know very little about MySQL, but I did get a linked server up. We're on 2K5, so there will be some differences, but I can give you the settings we had to use on the linked server if that helps. I'm reading into your post a little, but it sounds like you had the LS working before and just set it up anew, so my help is probably worthless and completely unrelated, but I thought I'd offer since we just went through it a few months ago.

Chad

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 15

Chad Crawford (1/20/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/19/2010)
Totally different subject UNRELATED to questions getting worse. Last week I started working on setting up linked servers on our new blade servers (x64) under SQL Server 2008 EE. One of the servers needs to link to a MySQL database. Okay, no problem, download the 5.01 driver, install it, and setup the Linked Server. PeopleSoft Admin tries creating one of the views used to access data from teh MySQL Database, error....
I know very little about MySQL, but I did get a linked server up. We're on 2K5, so there will be some differences, but I can give you the settings we had to use on the linked server if that helps. I'm reading into your post a little, but it sounds like you had the LS working before and just set it up anew, so my help is probably worthless and completely unrelated, but I thought I'd offer since we just went through it a few months ago.
Chad

lol that's the spirit 😉

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