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Any newly-elected leader should have to watch the entire West Wing series. That was an amazing show.
Certainly was. 15 years was about the right time to wait to watch...
"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?
January 7, 2021 at 4:38 pm
Don't want to turn this political, but thinking of you guys on the left side of the pond. I just finished re-watching the excellent West Wing two days ago after...
"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?
January 7, 2021 at 4:11 pm
I've seen a way of deleting the folders using cmdshell but I'm wary of enabling it because of the potential security issues.
Heh... it's not the...
"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?
December 21, 2020 at 9:35 am
I've seen a way of deleting the folders using cmdshell but I'm wary of enabling it because of the potential security issues.
Heh... it's not the security risk...
"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?
December 18, 2020 at 3:56 pm
The link David Edwards provided works. Now to import and play.
Thanks!
Glad that worked, please let me know if they are fit for purpose.
I need to get back this "fun"...
"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?
December 3, 2020 at 4:38 pm
I've used this site for a "fun" personal project, but unfortunately can't vouch for them because the bloody wonderful Shape2SQL tool I used ages ago (and do not have a...
"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?
December 2, 2020 at 4:45 pm
Doubtful the cause of your pain, but.... the SQl Server Max Memory is set at the Default, out of the box value. This is usually bad - SQL will usually...
"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?
November 24, 2020 at 4:51 pm
I'm not good with time management. No matter what I am doing I feel I should be doing something else. This means that I am easily distracted. The feeling...
"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?
November 16, 2020 at 2:15 pm
I must admit, I tire of seeing the same questions on SO day in day out at times, along with the lack of people that have heard of a...
"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?
October 30, 2020 at 4:37 pm
I did an article called Constraint Yourself! back in October 2008 on how to use DDL constraints to assure data integrity. One of the topics in that piece was...
"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?
October 29, 2020 at 6:59 pm
In other words, "Make it work, make it fast, make it pretty... and it's not done 'til it's pretty".
Couldn't help be reminded of the old saying: "You can have...
"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?
October 29, 2020 at 5:48 pm
I worked in QA at one of the BUNCH companies (Borroughs, Univac, NCR, CDC, and Honeywell) in the 70's to mid 80's. Engineering would say "We met our deadline."...
"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?
October 29, 2020 at 5:45 pm
Do you have multiple versions of SQL in your CMS? That is likely the cause of your issue.
I'd concur with this. I split the servers into a hierarchy of...
"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?
October 29, 2020 at 4:59 pm
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An is_active flag (someone can be inactive and still not "terminated", e.g. "suspended"), specifically, makes perfect sense to me because the specific inactive date / conditions may...
"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?
October 28, 2020 at 4:32 pm
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>8
An is_active flag (someone can be inactive and still not "terminated", e.g. "suspended"), specifically, makes perfect sense to me because the specific inactive date / conditions may be on...
"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?
October 28, 2020 at 3:48 pm
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