January 28, 2011 at 1:38 pm
We are not slow. We will be fed with more posts! Our plans are unstopable! We must be posted to!
January 28, 2011 at 1:39 pm
The Thread (1/28/2011)
We are not slow. We will be fed with more posts! Our plans are unstopable! We must be posted to!
Welcome back.
I guess.
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January 28, 2011 at 1:41 pm
The Thread (1/28/2011)
We are not slow. We will be fed with more posts! Our plans are unstopable! We must be posted to!
Watch out... The thread is back. Now we are all doomed.
-Roy
January 28, 2011 at 1:45 pm
GilaMonster (1/26/2011)
Since you seem intent on pulling the whole story out bit by bit, line by line...I'm just not seeing a future here at the moment. The IT industry is not doing well. Everyone complains there are no skills but then refuses to pay reasonable rates or salary (not a new thing, but seems to be getting worse). The key decision point in many potential project meeting I've been part of recently has been price, not skills, not qualifications. Reputation counts for almost nothing in many cases. Brent O asked me last year how much my billing rate would increase if I got an MCM and the answer is that it probably wouldn't. There's been major retrenchments from some of our big IT consulting/outsource companies, with one retrenching over 60% of their staff.
If I tried to get a full time job again here, I'd have to deal with the 'employment equity act' which states that I may not be given the job if there is even one other applicant that meets minimum job requirements and is 'previously disadvantaged'
The economic growth plan that's currently in discussion in government includes the capping of salary and wage increases, and the threshold that is planned to kick in at is R20000/month (about $3000)
The next couple of years are going to see heavy road tolls (while private industry voluntarily fixes potholes), a 'national health scheme' where the more you earn the more you pay (current estimates at least 12-15% of income) and probably increasing blackouts.
Not planning, not looking, just thinking
Sounds like a good time to be thinking about planning on looking:-P
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January 28, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Brandie Tarvin (1/28/2011)
The ..... Thread ..... is ..... extremely ..... slow.
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....of ....late. ....What's ...wrong ...with ...everyone's ....posting ....skills?
..or ...are ...we ...all ...really ....that ....bizzzzzzz .... eeeee..... eeeeee....eeeeeee.
Busy. Kids, work, user group, SQLRally, & planning. Not thinking or looking, just planning.
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January 28, 2011 at 2:02 pm
So they reportedly turned off the internet in Egypt.
'Makes me wonder how easy it would be to do that here in the US or in England?
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking
January 28, 2011 at 2:18 pm
mtillman-921105 (1/28/2011)
So they reportedly turned off the internet in Egypt.'Makes me wonder how easy it would be to do that here in the US or in England?
I think it is interesting that it happens the day after there was an interview on the BBC with a representative of the British government about the huge cuts in the BBC's operating budget that's forcing them to close quite a few operations. The government representative took the stand that closing these operations (broadcast and short wave to various regions in various languages) weren't such a big deal because people in those regions could still get to the BBC in the internet.
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January 28, 2011 at 2:38 pm
WayneS (1/28/2011)
GilaMonster (1/28/2011)
Can anyone help this gentleman locate a split function please http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1054690-1292-1.aspxYour wish is my command 😀 ... he's been guided to a suitable split function.
Edit: and you were extremely patient with him! Good going!
I've added another response. Maybe I'm going crazy, but to me you both seem to have missed the fact that he's trying to pass a large number of case numbers in a parameter big enough to hold just one. Or have I misread his parameter list somehow?
Tom
January 28, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Tom.Thomson (1/28/2011)
I've added another response. Maybe I'm going crazy, but to me you both seem to have missed the fact that he's trying to pass a large number of case numbers in a parameter big enough to hold just one. Or have I misread his parameter list somehow?
No, you haven't misread the parameter list. I think he was expecting it to be some form of array, where the elements only have to be the size of one item. You have (I assume) missed the post where I pointed that out to him though. 😉
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January 28, 2011 at 2:47 pm
mtillman-921105 (1/28/2011)
So they reportedly turned off the internet in Egypt.'Makes me wonder how easy it would be to do that here in the US or in England?
Would be very easy here. The entire infrastructure (data lines and phone lines) are all run by a partially government owned company. Plus with only 2 undersea cables providing all international internet access, shutting the ends of those down would cut off all but satellite connections.
Gail Shaw
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January 28, 2011 at 2:58 pm
GilaMonster
Would be very easy here. The entire infrastructure (data lines and phone lines) are all run by a partially government owned company. Plus with only 2 undersea cables providing all international internet access, shutting the ends of those down would cut off all but satellite connections.
Well, that's scary. (And I'm kind of surprised at myself when I say that, but the internet is a big deal now.)
That article mentions that Egypt lost its internet connections in 2008 when the undersea cables were accidentally cut.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking
January 28, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Anyone checked out www.sqltidbits.com? I always wonder when someone starts a new site.
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January 28, 2011 at 3:12 pm
mtillman-921105 (1/28/2011)
Well, that's scary. (And I'm kind of surprised at myself when I say that, but the internet is a big deal now.)
Not so much here. It's still a luxury, maybe 10-12% of the population has internet access of any form.
Gail Shaw
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January 28, 2011 at 3:14 pm
GilaMonster (1/28/2011)
Tom.Thomson (1/28/2011)
I've added another response. Maybe I'm going crazy, but to me you both seem to have missed the fact that he's trying to pass a large number of case numbers in a parameter big enough to hold just one. Or have I misread his parameter list somehow?No, you haven't misread the parameter list. I think he was expecting it to be some form of array, where the elements only have to be the size of one item. You have (I assume) missed the post where I pointed that out to him though. 😉
I must be getting careless in my old age - I didn't spot that (and I did skim all the posts, so should have spotted it).
edit: I missed a whole page of comments - must have skipped accidentally from page 1 direct to page 3 without passing page 2 and without collecting essential information 🙁 - a bit like a monopoly go to jail card
Tom
January 28, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Tom.Thomson (1/28/2011)
edit: I missed a whole page of comments - must have skipped accidentally from page 1 direct to page 3 without passing page 2 and without collecting essential information 🙁 - a bit like a monopoly go to jail card
Just set your account up to see more posts/page (it can go up to 50), and you won't have that problem! 😀
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