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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728159 More actions · Answer 1

Snow last week and had to take my wife to the doctor (unreleated). slipped in the x5, with summer tires.

Had to go buy some winter versions, and new wheels.

Was going to test them out today, but apprently I-70 is closed near Vail and lots of plows out before then with avalanche dangers. Decided not to risk it.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1000539 More actions · Answer 2

Grant Fritchey (1/11/2017)

Brandie Tarvin (1/11/2017)

I had a brainstorm yesterday. I'm wondering if it's worth the effort to try and get some coding basics sessions together for the local SQL Saturdays, strictly for the kids. Give the younger set some time to learn basics.

I mean, get 'em while they're young and you have a chance to keep girls in STEM, right?

Basics and intro sessions are almost always well attended and they're very useful. We constantly have new people joining the profession.

Agreed. And "Performance Sells". If you can also explain early in life why certain things are done for performance and scalability, you'll need a bigger room.

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Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64748 More actions · Answer 3

Grant Fritchey (1/11/2017)

GilaMonster (1/11/2017)

I really would like to attend Bits this year (hint, hint)

DITTO!

(nudge, nudge, wink, wink).

I will definitely attend (present a precon so need to be there anyway). But it'd be nice to get to present at least one regular session as well.

(just sayin)

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/11/2017)

Snow last week and had to take my wife to the doctor (unreleated). slipped in the x5, with summer tires.

Had to go buy some winter versions, and new wheels.

Was going to test them out today, but apprently I-70 is closed near Vail and lots of plows out before then with avalanche dangers. Decided not to risk it.

Wise of you. Pending natural disasters are not something to play with.

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JustMarie SSCertifiable Points: 7771 More actions · Answer 5

I feel the unbearable need to brag and no one here would understand why I think I did such an awesome process design.

I work with data scientists who use ad-hoc data sets a LOT. They need to join this up with production data. Can't link dev and prod servers. Can't write to prod servers.

Can't wait 3 to 10 days for the DBAs to work a ticket.

Here's the solution I worked out with my favorite senior DBA. He trusts me, btw.

1 - Create database on dev that everyone can create/modify/delete/whatever.

2 - Create job and special named account to run said job that will back up the dev database and restore it to prod. (As I said they trust me and there's no one else here I can share it with so I'm not the only one.)

3 - Give me the account so that I can connect and run the job.

Whammo! Timely push of data to production whilst not violating a single security rule!

Of course now all the DBAs will find all the ways this can go wrong. But I'm still darn proud of finding a way to do what they said couldn't be done in our environment!

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19243 More actions · Answer 6

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January 12, 2017 at 3:19 am

#1922111

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Thomas Rushton SSC-Insane Points: 22648 More actions · Answer 7

Thomas Rushton

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January 12, 2017 at 3:23 am

#1922113

We can change font and write questions in Comic Sans? Really?

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259015 More actions · Answer 8

ThomasRushton - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:23 AM

We can change font and write questions in Comic Sans? Really?

Apparently we can also like posts now. Which increases my reputation? What's reputation? Is it the points? If I like everything will I be able to catch up with Gail? So many questions!

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259015 More actions · Answer 9

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January 12, 2017 at 3:25 am

#1922115

And where's the dang quote button?

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259015 More actions · Answer 10

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January 12, 2017 at 3:26 am

#1922116

ThomasRushton - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:23 AM

We can change font and write questions in Comic Sans? Really?

Never mind, found it 🙂

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Thomas Rushton SSC-Insane Points: 22648 More actions · Answer 11

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January 12, 2017 at 3:27 am

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Koen Verbeeck - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:25 AM

And where's the dang quote button?

It's that "Multiquote" button. Click on that (and, presumably, several others) and then click on the quoted reply button that appears bottom right.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259015 More actions · Answer 12

Koen Verbeeck - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:26 AM

ThomasRushton - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:23 AM

We can change font and write questions in Comic Sans? Really?

Never mind, found it 🙂

ThomasRushton - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:27 AM

Koen Verbeeck - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:25 AM

And where's the dang quote button?

It's that "Multiquote" button. Click on that (and, presumably, several others) and then click on the quoted reply button that appears bottom right.

That is pretty damn awesome 🙂
Now I wonder if the quote bug is still present.

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Dave Convery SSCrazy Points: 2159 More actions · Answer 13

Dave Convery

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January 12, 2017 at 3:31 am

#1922122

There's a pinned thread for forum issues, requests, complaints and (maybe) nice things too, here: https://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1849962.aspx

We're going to be logging issues and working through what we can in coming days.

Dave Convery SSCrazy Points: 2159 More actions · Answer 14

Dave Convery - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:31 AM

There's a pinned thread for forum issues, requests, complaints and (maybe) nice things too, here: https://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1849962.aspx

We're going to be logging issues and working through what we can in coming days.

I mean, feel free to do all of that anywhere, but that's the main thread we'll be tracking...

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 15

Koen Verbeeck - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:24 AM

ThomasRushton - Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:23 AM

We can change font and write questions in Comic Sans? Really?

Apparently we can also like posts now. Which increases my reputation? What's reputation? Is it the points? If I like everything will I be able to catch up with Gail? So many questions!

Yeah, but I can't ding people for annoying the Hippo. Which is disappointing.

@=)

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