That might be true, though I don't think the Event Viewer actually queries for more up to date info. It would be good if you could allow queries to MS...

Alvin,

That was good 😛

It's a bit of trivia related to spatial information. If you work with data on the oceans, this can be valuable. It's not something most of us will deal with,...

I think you're mis-reading me a little. I said that I'd like to see the user informed that there is a patch available. There's no shortcut here of not testing,...

I tried a log scale, didn't seem much better. I think it's too many data points and no good distribution.

A few facts:

Users: 972,717 (not all members are in the forum...

OK, 10 minutes was ambitious. Took me ten minutes to change computers.

I pulled down the post data anonymously, grouping a count by number of posts. I then pulled it into...

LOL, I was going to stop at Excel and then thought that would be bad.

For a simple chart, Excel is just better. Microsoft finally gave up as well, and instead...

I thought sledgehammer, but those flying pieces of ADSL modem are dangerous. Now if you can redirect those down the block.......

Hammers aren't fun for technical equipment on the fritz. Now a slingshot.....

I'll see if I can whip one up in Excel or SSRS. Not sure we have that on the servers, but I can suck down some of the stats and...

You can't performance tune without some testing of how efficient things are. I guess I was wondering as well whether people actually think about testing beyond that. Jeff addressed some...

Use the code from last year (SSC3D) for now. We don't have a new one set up yet, but I'll be working on that over the next week or two.

I was stirring the pot a little, just to see how many people might agree. good to see most don't.

Technical Debt - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

A good read on it here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001230.html

kilt or gi, had to pick 😀

Actually there's too much happening during the conference. Need to come a day early if I want to train up there.

I worked with 6.0. It was a rewrite and upgrade from 4.2. It was sold for only about 6 months, had some bugs, and MS upgraded to v6.5 very quickly,...