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  • January 13, 2017 at 9:30 am

    #1922621

    Ed Wagner - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:20 AM

    Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 8:33 AM

    The nasty weather is almost here. We are expecting an ice storm that starts today around noon and doesn't stop until sunday night. We are in the projected bullseye to get 1/2"+ of ice. Ugh!!! At least I have already been to the store and loaded up the cupboards for a long of weekend of family activities. I have a feeling our new holiday ping pong table is going to get a lot of activity this weekend.

    I heard about that on the way to work today, only I heard up to 1" of ice. :unsure:🙁  There's only so much you can do to prepare for something like that and it sounds like you've done the important stuff.  I also make sure the gas tanks are full on the cars.  In the event of an extended power loss over a wide area, the gas stations won't be working.

    Stay home and stay safe.

    I filled the van yesterday and have plenty of wood for the fireplace. We have all underground power lines around my place so any outages will have to happen from a distance. In the 10+ years we have been in this house we only lost power a couple of times and never for very long. Of course at one point one of the VP's of the power company lived in our neighborhood so I am sure that during that time outages were dealt with as extremely important.

    The weather guy did say that is could be as much 1" but the "official" forecast has us in the .5+ range. I am not a huge NFL fan but I wonder what is going to happen for the Chiefs game at Arrowhead Sunday night. Pretty sure we don't 78,000 drunk people driving around on frozen roads. :crazy:

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  • January 13, 2017 at 9:53 am

    #1922633

    Frosty morning today, foggy and chilly. Need to ride a motorcycle home today for my kid (he's buying one). Gonna have to dig out some cold weather gear.

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  • January 13, 2017 at 9:57 am

    #1922636

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:53 AM

    Frosty morning today, foggy and chilly. Need to ride a motorcycle home today for my kid (he's buying one). Gonna have to dig out some cold weather gear.

    Or make him ride it home and you get to ride in the warm car. Good time of year to buy a bike though, they are usually pretty cheap when it is cold and snowy outside. 🙂

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  • January 13, 2017 at 1:50 pm

    #1922694

    Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:30 AM

    Ed Wagner - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:20 AM

    Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 8:33 AM

    The nasty weather is almost here. We are expecting an ice storm that starts today around noon and doesn't stop until sunday night. We are in the projected bullseye to get 1/2"+ of ice. Ugh!!! At least I have already been to the store and loaded up the cupboards for a long of weekend of family activities. I have a feeling our new holiday ping pong table is going to get a lot of activity this weekend.

    I heard about that on the way to work today, only I heard up to 1" of ice. :unsure:🙁  There's only so much you can do to prepare for something like that and it sounds like you've done the important stuff.  I also make sure the gas tanks are full on the cars.  In the event of an extended power loss over a wide area, the gas stations won't be working.

    Stay home and stay safe.

    I filled the van yesterday and have plenty of wood for the fireplace. We have all underground power lines around my place so any outages will have to happen from a distance. In the 10+ years we have been in this house we only lost power a couple of times and never for very long. Of course at one point one of the VP's of the power company lived in our neighborhood so I am sure that during that time outages were dealt with as extremely important.

    The weather guy did say that is could be as much 1" but the "official" forecast has us in the .5+ range. I am not a huge NFL fan but I wonder what is going to happen for the Chiefs game at Arrowhead Sunday night. Pretty sure we don't 78,000 drunk people driving around on frozen roads. :crazy:

    Steelers at Chiefs got "delayed" to 8:20 PM Eastern.  Go Steelers!!!

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  • January 16, 2017 at 6:29 am

    #1922962

    Has there been a discussion somewhere that I've missed about the new forum and the handling of SPAM?
    I still get a significant number of spam notifications & I was not expecting that to happen much with the new software.

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • January 16, 2017 at 7:08 am

    #1922972

    Phil Parkin - Monday, January 16, 2017 6:29 AM

    Has there been a discussion somewhere that I've missed about the new forum and the handling of SPAM?
    I still get a significant number of spam notifications & I was not expecting that to happen much with the new software.

    We've not really mentioned spam, as most of the changes are under the hood or to moderator tools to speed up removal.

    Are you subscribed to a large number of forums?

  • January 16, 2017 at 7:17 am

    #1922973

    SQLBill - Friday, January 13, 2017 1:50 PM

    Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:30 AM

    Ed Wagner - Friday, January 13, 2017 9:20 AM

    Sean Lange - Friday, January 13, 2017 8:33 AM

    The nasty weather is almost here. We are expecting an ice storm that starts today around noon and doesn't stop until sunday night. We are in the projected bullseye to get 1/2"+ of ice. Ugh!!! At least I have already been to the store and loaded up the cupboards for a long of weekend of family activities. I have a feeling our new holiday ping pong table is going to get a lot of activity this weekend.

    I heard about that on the way to work today, only I heard up to 1" of ice. :unsure:🙁  There's only so much you can do to prepare for something like that and it sounds like you've done the important stuff.  I also make sure the gas tanks are full on the cars.  In the event of an extended power loss over a wide area, the gas stations won't be working.

    Stay home and stay safe.

    I filled the van yesterday and have plenty of wood for the fireplace. We have all underground power lines around my place so any outages will have to happen from a distance. In the 10+ years we have been in this house we only lost power a couple of times and never for very long. Of course at one point one of the VP's of the power company lived in our neighborhood so I am sure that during that time outages were dealt with as extremely important.

    The weather guy did say that is could be as much 1" but the "official" forecast has us in the .5+ range. I am not a huge NFL fan but I wonder what is going to happen for the Chiefs game at Arrowhead Sunday night. Pretty sure we don't 78,000 drunk people driving around on frozen roads. :crazy:

    Steelers at Chiefs got "delayed" to 8:20 PM Eastern.  Go Steelers!!!

    -SQLBill

    I set up my DVR to record the Biggest Loser but it just keeps recording Chiefs playoffs games. :w00t::w00t::w00t:

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    Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

  • January 16, 2017 at 7:20 am

    #1922974

    The massive ice storm that was predicted for the weekend apparently never received notification it was supposed to show up. They predicted as much as 1" of freezing rain around KC. We got just a tiny bit Friday night, barely enough to make things slick. That was the extent of the whole thing.

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    Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
    Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
    Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
    Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

  • January 16, 2017 at 7:21 am

    #1922975

    Not a great game. Now I can just hope the Steelers show up and beat the Pats next weekend.

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  • January 16, 2017 at 7:37 am

    #1922981

    Dave Convery - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:08 AM

    Phil Parkin - Monday, January 16, 2017 6:29 AM

    Has there been a discussion somewhere that I've missed about the new forum and the handling of SPAM?
    I still get a significant number of spam notifications & I was not expecting that to happen much with the new software.

    We've not really mentioned spam, as most of the changes are under the hood or to moderator tools to speed up removal.

    Are you subscribed to a large number of forums?

    If 'large' = 7 or 8, then yes. So are you saying that you have not made the process of creating spam any more difficult?

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • January 16, 2017 at 8:00 am

    #1922986

    Phil Parkin - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:37 AM

    Dave Convery - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:08 AM

    Phil Parkin - Monday, January 16, 2017 6:29 AM

    Has there been a discussion somewhere that I've missed about the new forum and the handling of SPAM?
    I still get a significant number of spam notifications & I was not expecting that to happen much with the new software.

    We've not really mentioned spam, as most of the changes are under the hood or to moderator tools to speed up removal.

    Are you subscribed to a large number of forums?

    If 'large' = 7 or 8, then yes. So are you saying that you have not made the process of creating spam any more difficult?

    No, it's harder to sign up, and harder to post spam, as well as being easier for mods to remove it. There are still some notifications going out for posts that are immediately pulled from the site - we're looking at options for stopping these now.

  • January 16, 2017 at 8:04 am

    #1922987

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:21 AM

    Not a great game. Now I can just hope the Steelers show up and beat the Pats next weekend.

    By beat you mean lose horribly. Yeah, I agree.

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  • January 16, 2017 at 8:07 am

    #1922989

    Dave Convery - Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00 AM

    No, it's harder to sign up, and harder to post spam, as well as being easier for mods to remove it. There are still some notifications going out for posts that are immediately pulled from the site - we're looking at options for stopping these now.

    Thanks Dave. Do your best, it will be appreciated by us all.

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • January 16, 2017 at 8:19 am

    #1922998

    Grant Fritchey - Monday, January 16, 2017 8:04 AM

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:21 AM

    Not a great game. Now I can just hope the Steelers show up and beat the Pats next weekend.

    By beat you mean lose horribly. Yeah, I agree.

    I'm happy the Packers beat the Cowboys.  I've been a Packers fan as far back as I can remember.  It was also a very good game to watch.

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  • January 16, 2017 at 8:21 am

    #1922999

    Sean Lange - Monday, January 16, 2017 7:20 AM

    The massive ice storm that was predicted for the weekend apparently never received notification it was supposed to show up. They predicted as much as 1" of freezing rain around KC. We got just a tiny bit Friday night, barely enough to make things slick. That was the extent of the whole thing.

    I hope those ratios hold true for us.  They're predicting from 0.1" to 0.2" this evening, ending around 2:00 AM.

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