January 31, 2011 at 6:47 am
Brandie Tarvin (1/31/2011)
Jack Corbett (1/28/2011)
Anyone checked out www.sqltidbits.com? I always wonder when someone starts a new site.Jack, are you trying to link to an SSC thread? That's what the link comes up with (EDIT: When directly clicked on) and gives a 404 error.
Odd behavior. I edited the original post and it works now. Here's the link again. SQLTidBits
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January 31, 2011 at 6:49 am
GilaMonster (1/31/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (1/31/2011)
If the poster said that, I don't blame you for slapping down. The question is, how diplomatic were you?He was pretty diplomatic about it. Far more diplomatic than my first thought upon seeing it.
Yeah, I just saw the post. You're not a bad guy, Grant. You're realistic. I like your last comment, too.
Though I have to wonder why he needs someone to design his database if he already has it modeled out. I would think the modeling would be the hard part and everything else would be easy (relatively speaking) after that.
January 31, 2011 at 7:02 am
Grant Fritchey (1/31/2011)
I was bad. I was very bad. Just had to slap down a poster, couldn't help it. "Hey, I need a complete system design, thanks." Man I hate those.
Maybe we can design it for him. If his social networksite makes him as rich as Mark Zuckerberg, I'll be happy with 10% 🙂
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January 31, 2011 at 7:25 am
Yikes, lots of thread activity since I disappeared Fri am.
Being unwired is nice 😉
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January 31, 2011 at 7:26 am
We had a deployment early am today, UK time, so there was some downtime there. Should have pointed to a maintenance page on this same server, so no DNS flushing needed.
We fixed a few admin things, and added in some linkages for the Stairway series we've been working on .
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January 31, 2011 at 11:15 am
Brandie Tarvin (1/31/2011)
GilaMonster (1/31/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (1/31/2011)
If the poster said that, I don't blame you for slapping down. The question is, how diplomatic were you?He was pretty diplomatic about it. Far more diplomatic than my first thought upon seeing it.
Yeah, I just saw the post. You're not a bad guy, Grant. You're realistic. I like your last comment, too.
Though I have to wonder why he needs someone to design his database if he already has it modeled out. I would think the modeling would be the hard part and everything else would be easy (relatively speaking) after that.
At a guess? It's not a true ERD, it's a design showing how data should go together scribbled on napkins in the bar the same drunken night he came up with the idea to challenge Facebook for a social networking site.
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January 31, 2011 at 11:19 am
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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 cardJust set your account up to see more posts/page (it can go up to 50), and you won't have that problem! 😀
Yeah. Then you can accidentally skip 50 posts instead of just 10. Solves the whole thing. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Edit: Please read "couldn't resist" as "didn't feel like resisting". 🙂
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January 31, 2011 at 11:57 am
So... what's your favorite data modeling tool?
Starting a new job today... I get to use whatever tools I want. I've used ERwin and PowerDesigner in the past. IMHO, ERwin is too overpriced.
Just trying to see what else is out there that others use and like.
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January 31, 2011 at 12:06 pm
WayneS (1/31/2011)
So... what's your favorite data modeling tool?
Pencil and paper (or marker and whiteboard).
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January 31, 2011 at 12:08 pm
GSquared (1/31/2011)
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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 cardJust set your account up to see more posts/page (it can go up to 50), and you won't have that problem! 😀
Yeah. Then you can accidentally skip 50 posts instead of just 10. Solves the whole thing. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Edit: Please read "couldn't resist" as "didn't feel like resisting". 🙂
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January 31, 2011 at 12:08 pm
GilaMonster (1/31/2011)
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So... what's your favorite data modeling tool?Pencil and paper (or marker and whiteboard).
Personally, I prefer using Grant
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January 31, 2011 at 12:11 pm
WayneS (1/31/2011)
So... what's your favorite data modeling tool?Starting a new job today... I get to use whatever tools I want. I've used ERwin and PowerDesigner in the past. IMHO, ERwin is too overpriced.
Just trying to see what else is out there that others use and like.
Whiteboard and Visio. I don't even use the reverse build templates. My ERD's usually aren't that defined to the datatype level. They're conceptual builds that I'll reverse engineer later if we really need that documentation... which you normally don't. I've gotten pretty good in Visio over the years about building my own custom objects on the fly and getting it to do what I need.
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January 31, 2011 at 12:13 pm
WayneS (1/31/2011)
So... what's your favorite data modeling tool?Starting a new job today... I get to use whatever tools I want. I've used ERwin and PowerDesigner in the past. IMHO, ERwin is too overpriced.
Just trying to see what else is out there that others use and like.
Embarcadero ERStudio. Although, it's not cheap and there's no MVP love from them.
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January 31, 2011 at 12:29 pm
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So... what's your favorite data modeling tool?Pencil and paper (or marker and whiteboard).
Ditto
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January 31, 2011 at 12:37 pm
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So... what's your favorite data modeling tool?Pencil and paper (or marker and whiteboard).
Personally, I prefer using Grant
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