March 23, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Just thought I'd share this little tidbit:
Also just for some background (or laughs, or horrors depending) our systems administrator is also our DBA and thinks its perfectly ok for our OLTP databases to be in simple recovery mode because "transaction log backups are not worth the storage cost".
Should note, this is from an ssc forum, not something happening where I work or have worked.
March 23, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Lynn Pettis (3/23/2012)
Just thought I'd share this little tidbit:Also just for some background (or laughs, or horrors depending) our systems administrator is also our DBA and thinks its perfectly ok for our OLTP databases to be in simple recovery mode because "transaction log backups are not worth the storage cost".
Should note, this is from an ssc forum, not something happening where I work or have worked.
bahahaha
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March 23, 2012 at 2:40 pm
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What is "google"?Hey, long time no see! How are you doing?
Just realized I'm in a box.... most depressing.
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March 23, 2012 at 3:07 pm
GSquared (3/23/2012)
Reminds me indirectly of one of my three bosses at a job a couple of years ago. He ended up compulsively disagreeing with me. A couple of times, just to test it, I would wait for him to assert something, then I'd wait a minute or two later in the conversation, and would then repeat back his assertion word-for-word. He would immediately disagree with it. Was amusing in its own way.
I wasn't the only one who noticed that he'd disagree with me about everything. So a co-worker got into the habit of taking anything useful I'd said, which that boss had disagreed with, and parroting it back. The boss would immediately agree and we'd go ahead with whatever plan I had already been told not to do.
And, yes, I'm willing to be that kind of manipulative if it's needed.
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March 23, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Anyone else going to see The Hunger Games (or seen it)?
My 13 yr old is rallying the troops to go see it tonight.
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March 23, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/23/2012)
Anyone else going to see The Hunger Games (or seen it)?My 13 yr old is rallying the troops to go see it tonight.
My 13 yr old saw it this morning at 12:07 AM. I was going to try and get tickets for it tonight to take the 18 yr old, but thinking of waiting until tomorrow.
March 23, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/23/2012)
Anyone else going to see The Hunger Games (or seen it)?My 13 yr old is rallying the troops to go see it tonight.
Definitely going tonight or tomorrow.
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March 23, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/23/2012)
Anyone else going to see The Hunger Games (or seen it)?My 13 yr old is rallying the troops to go see it tonight.
Doesn't show here until the 13th of April. I'll read the book sometime between now and then and watch it once sometime late April probably.
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March 24, 2012 at 11:29 pm
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/23/2012)
Anyone else going to see The Hunger Games (or seen it)?My 13 yr old is rallying the troops to go see it tonight.
Doesn't show here until the 13th of April. I'll read the book sometime between now and then and watch it once sometime late April probably.
Saw the movie today with Kirisa. It is a very good movie. I guess I should borrow the books from my youngest.
March 25, 2012 at 10:24 am
It is good, though a lot is left out, despite the 2:20 time.
Read the books if you haven't, they're great.
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March 25, 2012 at 12:00 pm
GSquared (3/23/2012)
Reminds me indirectly of one of my three bosses at a job a couple of years ago. He ended up compulsively disagreeing with me. A couple of times, just to test it, I would wait for him to assert something, then I'd wait a minute or two later in the conversation, and would then repeat back his assertion word-for-word. He would immediately disagree with it. Was amusing in its own way.I wasn't the only one who noticed that he'd disagree with me about everything. So a co-worker got into the habit of taking anything useful I'd said, which that boss had disagreed with, and parroting it back. The boss would immediately agree and we'd go ahead with whatever plan I had already been told not to do.
And, yes, I'm willing to be that kind of manipulative if it's needed.
Gosh... I've been there and had that happen to me, as well. The only difference is that I won't and don't tolerate it and will take any and all corrective actions necessary because having a boss like that affects the whole team. Sometimes they don't realize they're doing it and the corrective action is simply to make them aware. Sometimes it's malicious and other, sometimes much more severe, actions are required.
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March 26, 2012 at 5:48 am
Memory experts needed, please. All my advice is based off of stuff I found on the 'net and not on real experiencing managing the memory.
http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1271523-1550-1.aspx
March 26, 2012 at 8:21 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/23/2012)
Anyone else going to see The Hunger Games (or seen it)?My 13 yr old is rallying the troops to go see it tonight.
Saw it Friday evening, IMAX version (not 3D since I get a headache from that). Totally rocked. Haven't read the books (have the Kindle version on my tablet, but it's about 3 books later in my to-read queue), so can't say how well it follows that.
For anyone who liked the original Rollerball, I could almost hear the crowd chanting "Johnathon, Johnathon" at the end of the movie. Tributes to/influences from "The Most Dangerous Game" novella were also notable.
Some definite weaknesses in terms of believability that the main character had any sort of woodscraft at all, but acceptable under the heading of "suspension of disbelief", and didn't detract from enjoying it.
Not sure I'd take the PG-13 rating as being right, but also not sure I'd take it as wrong. It's a bit graphic (violence, not sex) at times. Enough subtlety and political commentary for an adult, enough "oooh that's so romantic" for its intended tweener audience. (Last bit is judging from the reactions of the whole row of teen/tween girls sitting right behind me in the theatre.)
That's my micro-review.
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March 26, 2012 at 8:30 am
Jeff Moden (3/25/2012)
GSquared (3/23/2012)
Reminds me indirectly of one of my three bosses at a job a couple of years ago. He ended up compulsively disagreeing with me. A couple of times, just to test it, I would wait for him to assert something, then I'd wait a minute or two later in the conversation, and would then repeat back his assertion word-for-word. He would immediately disagree with it. Was amusing in its own way.I wasn't the only one who noticed that he'd disagree with me about everything. So a co-worker got into the habit of taking anything useful I'd said, which that boss had disagreed with, and parroting it back. The boss would immediately agree and we'd go ahead with whatever plan I had already been told not to do.
And, yes, I'm willing to be that kind of manipulative if it's needed.
Gosh... I've been there and had that happen to me, as well. The only difference is that I won't and don't tolerate it and will take any and all corrective actions necessary because having a boss like that affects the whole team. Sometimes they don't realize they're doing it and the corrective action is simply to make them aware. Sometimes it's malicious and other, sometimes much more severe, actions are required.
Wasn't really an option in this case.
Remarkably, despite this, it was commented on repeatedly by other co-workers that I got along with that guy (the boss mentioned) better than just about anyone in the history of the company.
His background was long-term military (Army special forces Seargeant) and academia (PhD in Comp Sci), and thus a little rough to get along with and addicted to a level of beaurocracy that drove most people to distraction. But at the same time, wrote brilliant software. His doctoral thesis was on the subject of creating UIs that people would like to use, and he was very, very good at that. Took FOREVER to get any project up to the point of actually writing any code. Pages and pages and pages of planning, case-studies, and documentation before the first line of code would be written. But once he got started on coding, it would be secure, performant, scalable, and would do exactly what the end-users actually needed, even if that violated what they had asked for.
Just really, really tough to get along with, and absolutely certain his every opinion was gospel and that anything that disagreed with his personal experiences in any slightest detail was unquestionably either wrong or just plain false.
And even he knew he was hard to get along with. Made jokes about it at times.
So, no real fix for it, but my workarounds got the job done. And other managers were impressed that I did as well as I did with him.
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March 26, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Happy Monday, folks!
Just coming up for air after a couple of weeks of crazy. Figured I'd catch up on The Thread and say "Hi".
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