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  • Reply To: Multiple Display Productivity

    I have two 27 inch monitors I use at home.  When I went to the office I had two for about 15 years.  I don't know if I feel I...

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I've never got the error when posting.  The other issues that have been brought up are annoying.  But IMHO this is still the best place to come to for answers...

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  • Reply To: Do you listen to music when you work?

    I mainly use You tube now.   I used CD's back in the 90's early 2000's.  I've also use Sirius in the car, I've also used it some while working from...

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    we travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us
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  • Reply To: Do you listen to music when you work?

    A lot of 80's music for me(hair metal).  AC/DC, Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Lita Ford, White Snake, AeroSmith, WASP, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett...  With some occasional 50's and 60's hits,...

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    we travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us
    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

  • Reply To: Missing the Office

    Rod at work wrote:

    The office environment you described, Steve, would be a nightmare for me. I've been forced back to the office, with no reason given. It was an order. I now...

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    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

  • Reply To: Missing the Office

    An open concept would be a deal breaker for me.  To loud and to much distraction.  To many eyes on me, I wouldn't be able to slip out to SQL...

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    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

  • Reply To: The Art of the Code Review

    I would say that the people at DirecTv should have some better code review.  From what I read yesterday they were blaming an outage in my area on some coding...

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  • Reply To: Don't (Always) Be a Hero

    Another draw back of management seeing you as a hero is that you will be the one they dump all of the extra work on after they cut 6+ members...

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    we travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us
    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

  • Reply To: convert to date from datetime

    Why not just use CAST?

    CAST( DATEADD("m", -25, DATEADD("d", -DAY(GETDATE()) + 1, GETDATE())) AS DATE)

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    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    It's not the "last post" that doesn't show up.  It's the first post on a new page.  It's been a problem for a very long time just like the...

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I'm posting just because on the 'Active threads' view this says Jeff Moden has the last post, but the last one I can see is from Phil Parkin.  This isn't...

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    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

  • Reply To: Be Prepared

    Maui is my happy place.  I was just in Lahaina in November 2023, it's heart breaking to see the images of it now.

    I will be donating to https://www.pacificwhale.org

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    we travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us
    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

  • Reply To: Use Alpha characters instead of expanding field

    We did go with a conversion table, this way we could eliminate some bad words or abbreviations. I don't think we had anything that would go out with that info...

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    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

  • Reply To: Is it a good option to store monthly total in database?

    I think keeping monthly totals in a separate table is a good idea.  It's done all the time in the insurance industry.  If you keep the monthly totals it should...

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    we travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us
    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

  • Reply To: Use Alpha characters instead of expanding field

    We haven't had much added to our back log of work for several months now.  So splitting these out into three columns may be something we can tackle in late...

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    Don't fear failure, fear regret.

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