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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/26/2016)


    See you there, and...

    you have a car? I thought everyone in the UK just used trains.

    Trains? UK rail fares are by far the highest...

  • RE: Tempdb Setup in SQL Server 2016

    Nice question. Just one small problem.

    Either the answer is wrong or the question is badly worded. The question asks how many files, but the answer tells us how...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (4/26/2016)


    djj (4/26/2016)


    ThomasRushton (4/26/2016)


    DonlSimpson (4/25/2016)


    Ed Wagner (4/25/2016)


    eccentricDBA (4/25/2016)


    Ed Wagner (4/25/2016)


    djj (4/25/2016)


    Revenant (4/25/2016)


    TomThomson (4/25/2016)


    Ed Wagner (4/25/2016)


    Drive

    Putt

    Green

    Red (for our Canadian friends)

    Harold (I'm American, but I know the show)

    Duct Tape "the handyman's...

  • RE: A nice whistle and flute

    Gary Varga (4/26/2016)


    TomThomson (4/25/2016)


    ...the classic example is "dancers" which is rhyming slang for "stairs" (truncated and mutated "dancing bears")...

    ??? Surely you mean "apples 'n' pears"!!!

    a

    "Apples an' pairs" is very rarely...

  • RE: The Pen Test

    Well, I have to agree with the editorial when it says

    Maybe best of all would be getting software vendors to actually run these types of tools against their applications...

  • RE: A nice whistle and flute

    Jeff Moden (4/25/2016)


    Good advice, Phil. It's not just for consultants, though. DBAs and Developers need to apply such thoughtfulness, as well.

    Yes, and Project Managers too - especially those...

  • RE: A nice whistle and flute

    Eric M Russell (4/25/2016)


    I don't get the title: "A nice whistle and flute".

    Cockney rhyming slang. It means "A nice suit".

    edit: but I think a real Cockney would more likely...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Michael L John (4/25/2016)


    My ex once asked how they got the deer to cross the roads at the signs. She was blond, at least at the time, which is another...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    yb751 (4/25/2016)


    It's interesting to see all the idioms from different languages that mean the same thing.

    Wish I could remember one from my native tongue but it's been almost lost on...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Luis Cazares (4/25/2016)


    In Mexico is common to say that "his hamster went on vacations".

    I've just got to remember to try that next time I'm in P del C! 😀 ...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (4/25/2016)


    Drive

    Putt

  • RE: R in SQL Server

    I guess I'll have to learn R now.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I imagine many DBAs have first hand experience of the problem described here. :sick:

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/24/2016)


    Does anyone have the crystal ball?

    😎

    Can the crystal ball fix language problems. Hard to tell whether the poster is just temporarily incapaciated by alcohol or something or...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Phil Parkin (4/22/2016)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/22/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (4/22/2016)


    In this case I did add my two cents because I've seen that damn failure before and it took me days to figure out...

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