Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • jcrawf02 (6/8/2009)


    Florian Reischl (6/8/2009)


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    Florian Reischl (6/8/2009)


    Oups!

    A typo in my "Smurf"...

    I didn't know if you call him "Daddy" or "Papa". Just thought "Daddy" is more common in US.

    Thanks Jeff!

    Only in the form of a question, as in "who's your daddy?"

    Thanks for explanation! I really didn't know.

    That's not right, Toss! Funny, but not right. . .

    Florian, don't go asking anybody "who's your daddy?", especially if they're female. It's a colloquialism that infers sexual overtones.

    So THAT's why I keep getting slapped. 😛 Something else I just learned... I always though "harass" was two words! Imagine my surprise... :hehe:

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  • Jeff Moden (6/8/2009)


    So THAT's why I keep getting slapped. 😛 Something else I just learned... I always though "harass" was two words! Imagine my surprise... :hehe:

    2 words and one of them is not "his", but it's yours that get's in trouble. Right?

    😀



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  • Anyone want to help out here:

    http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic731030-338-1.aspx#bm731057 I'm in wrong time zone to be any more help 🙁

  • Hey Barry... how many more articles do you have planned for your "15 ways to lose your cursor" series, and when would the next one be publishing? It's been too long now...

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  • Back from SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola, what did I mess?

  • WayneS (6/8/2009)


    Hey Barry... how many more articles do you have planned for your "15 ways to lose your cursor" series, and when would the next one be publishing? It's been too long now...

    I'm still trying to catch-up at work. I was out sick for almost 4 weeks and as a consultant, when I am out, no one does my work for me... 🙁

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  • I've just read that Rajeev Motwani died last friday 🙁

    Rajeev Motwani was a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he also served as the director of graduate studies. His research interests included: databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, robotics, and theoretical computer science. While at Stanford, he was the founder of the Mining Data at Stanford project, also known as MIDAS.

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    He was a co-author of the book, Randomized Algorithms, published by Cambridge University Press. Motwani received the Arthur P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and an IBM Faculty Award.

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  • Steve Jones - Editor (6/8/2009)


    Back from SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola, what did I mess?

    Now there's a loaded question . . .

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  • I'm gonna be offline most, if not all of this week. Taking a vacation and for part of the time, I'll be somewhere with no cell coverage or broadband. I'm sure there will be at least 100 posts for me catch up with by the time I get back.:-D

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  • Jack Corbett (6/9/2009)


    I'm sure there will be at least 100 posts for me catch up with by the time I get back.:-D

    That'll be just today's postings! :w00t:

    -- You can't be late until you show up.

  • Steve Jones - Editor (6/8/2009)


    Back from SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola, what did I mess?

    Okay, Steve. Normally I back you up when you have typos in articles and someone calls you on it. But that's just too good to pass up! LOL 🙂

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  • GSquared (6/9/2009)


    Steve Jones - Editor (6/8/2009)


    Back from SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola, what did I mess?

    Okay, Steve. Normally I back you up when you have typos in articles and someone calls you on it. But that's just too good to pass up! LOL 🙂

    So the typo was the word what, right? It should have been where?

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  • Okay, I must be in pissy mood today and I have NO idea why. I just lmgtfy twice in the same thread...

  • Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)


    Okay, I must be in pissy mood today and I have NO idea why. I just lmgtfy twice in the same thread...

    I don't think that's a sign of a pissy mood.

    I think it needed to be done.



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  • LOL, how did I typo that? Keys are on different sides of the keyboard, different hands, I must have been tired.

    The majority of my thread notifications were from this thread last night, and I posted as I was falling asleep, apparently.

    Glad it's only 10 of you that will likely see that one :w00t:

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