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  • July 14, 2009 at 3:52 am

    #1024297

    Yep. Just couldn't be bothered...I'd gone to the trouble of wrapping it in and thought that would be good enough...seems not

    Paul White
    SQLPerformance.com
    SQLkiwi blog
    @SQL_Kiwi

  • July 14, 2009 at 4:09 am

    #1024299

    260 posts in 13 days...

    You guys are posting crazy fast!

    Never leave the thread alone for such a long time!

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • July 14, 2009 at 4:44 am

    #1024310

    Matt Miller (7/13/2009)

    Jeff Moden (7/13/2009)

    Dave Ballantyne (7/13/2009)

    You can lead a horse to water but you cant force him to drink

    Heh... well... you can if you don't mind getting your lips dirty. I'm going to leave that one alone, though.

    Wow - I think you just "cleared the table" with that one....

    Heh... I'd forgotten about the "fastest way to clear a table". Still works, though. 😉

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".
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  • July 14, 2009 at 5:34 am

    #1024331

    Bruce W Cassidy (7/13/2009)

    Grant Fritchey (7/13/2009)

    You mean if you change fonts you get better performance? Holy smokes! I've got to get some edits into the chapter on tuning...

    [font="Verdana"]I'm also thinking you could see a dramatic difference in performance, depending on which font you use. I wonder what would happen if you chose Wingdings?

    [/font]

    [font="Wingdings"]null[/font]

    [font="Verdana"]Scary!

    [/font]

    Oh, I'm positive that using wing dings is like using cursors. It seriously impacts performance in a negative way. Hmmm... I'll have to set up tests, compare Lucida to Magneto & Book Antiqua to Bookman... How come there aren't already blog posts about this amazing discovery?

    ----------------------------------------------------The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood... Theodore RooseveltThe Scary DBAAuthor of: SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning, 5th Edition and SQL Server Execution Plans, 3rd EditionProduct Evangelist for Red Gate Software

  • July 14, 2009 at 5:58 am

    #1024338

    GilaMonster (7/14/2009)

    Dave Ballantyne (7/14/2009)

    IIRC it wasnt a turbo button , it was a 'go-slow for compatibility' button.

    Yeah, it was. That was part (maybe too subtle) of my joke. It could be turned off for apps that ran too fast on the newer machines, but no one I knew then ever switched it off.

    I did! Do you remember QBASIC's Gorilla game? It was one of the samples provided with MSDOS 6: it was impossible to play without the turbo button switched off.

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • July 14, 2009 at 5:59 am

    #1024339

    Link for nostalgic folks:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • July 14, 2009 at 6:02 am

    #1024342

    Oops! It was snake instead!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game)

    Gorilla was quite easy to play even if it ran too fast.

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • July 14, 2009 at 6:16 am

    #1024349

    Ahhh them were the days , a CGA card, floppy disks, 286 processors.


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  • July 14, 2009 at 7:33 am

    #1024393

    Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.

    LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.

    Gaby
    ________________________________________________________________
    "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
    - Albert Einstein

  • July 14, 2009 at 7:45 am

    #1024403

    Gaby Abed (7/14/2009)

    Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.

    LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.

    If you want you can change the number of posts per page to avoid the 666.

    :w00t:


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  • July 14, 2009 at 7:53 am

    #1024409

    Only page 133 for me.. 😀

  • July 14, 2009 at 7:53 am

    #1024410

    Alvin Ramard (7/14/2009)

    Gaby Abed (7/14/2009)

    Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.

    LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.

    If you want you can change the number of posts per page to avoid the 666.

    :w00t:

    Uggh...I need to really do more customizating for SQLServerCentral, or I would have found that out.

    Gaby
    ________________________________________________________________
    "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
    - Albert Einstein

  • July 14, 2009 at 8:18 am

    #1024423

    Gaby Abed (7/14/2009)

    Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.

    LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.

    My apologies before hand... but with the upcoming 666 page... I couldn't resist. Enjoy!

    666 - Biblical Number of the Beast

    660 - Approximate Number of the Beast

    DCLXVI - Roman Numeral of the Beast

    665 - Number of the Beast's Older Brother

    667 - Number of the Beast's Younger Sister

    664 or 668 - Number of the Beast's Next-Door Neighbors

    999 - Number of the Australian Beast

    333 - Number of the Semi-Beast (also "Halfway to Hell")

    66 - Number of the Downsized Beast

    6, uh..., I forget - Number of the Blond Beast

    666.0000 - Number of the High Precision Beast

    665.9997856 - Number of the Beast on a Pentium

    0.666 - Number of the Millibeast

    X / 666 - Beast Common Denominator

    0.00150150... - Reciprocal of the Beast

    -666 - Opposite of the Beast

    666i - Imaginary Number of the Beast

    6.66 x 102 - Scientific Notation of the Beast

    25.8069758... - Square Root of the Beast

    443556 - Square of the Beast

    1010011010 - Binary Number of the Beast

    1232 - Octal of the Beast

    29A - Hexidecimal of the Beast

    2.8235 - Log of the Beast

    6.5913 - Ln of the Beast

    1.738 x 10289 - Anti-Log of the Beast

    00666 - Zip Code of the Beast

    666@hell.org - E-mail Address of the Beast

    http://www.666.com - Website of the Beast

    1-666-666-6666 - Phone & FAX Number of the Beast

    1-866-666-6666 - Toll Free Number of the Beast

      (which could also be written 18-666-666-666!)

    1-900-666-6666 - Live Beasts, available now! One-on-one pacts!

      Only $6.66 per minute! (Must be over 6+6+6 years old!)

    666-66-6666 - Social Security Number of the Beast

    Form 10666 - Special IRS Tax Forms for the Beast

    66.6% - Tax Rate of the Beast

    6.66% - 6-Year CD Interest Rate at First Beast Bank of Hell

      ($666 minimum deposit, $666 early withdrawal fee)

    $666/hr - Billing Rate of the Beast's Lawyer

    $665.95 - Retail Price of the Beast

    $710.36 - Price of the Beast plus 6.66% Sales Tax

    $769.95 - Price of the Beast with accessories and replacement soul

    $656.66 - Wal-Mart Price of the Beast (next week $646.66!)

    $55.50 - Monthly Payments for Beast, in 12 easy installments

    Phillips 666 - Gasoline Used by the Beast (regular $6.66/gal)

    Route 666 - Highway of the Beast (where he gets his kicks!)

    666 mph - Speed Limit on the Beast's Highway

    6-6-6 - Fertilizer of the Beast

    666 lb cap - Weight Limit of the Beast

    666 Minutes - Weekly News Show about the Beast (airs daily from

    Midnight to 11:06 a.m., on Cable Channel 666, of course)

    666o F - Oven Temperature for Cooking "Roast Beast"

    666k - Retirement Plan of the Beast

    666 mg - Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast

    Lotus 6-6-6 - Spreadsheet of the Beast

    Word 6.66 - Word Processor of the Beast

    Windows 666 - Bill Gates' Personal Beast Operating System

    #666666 - Font Color of the Beast

    i66686 - CPU of the Beast

    666-I - BMW of the Beast

    IAM 666 - License Plate Number of the Beast

    Formula 666 - All Purpose Cleaner of the Beast

    WD-666 - Spray Lubricant of the Beast

    DSM-666 (rev) - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast

    66.6 MHz - FM Radio Station of the Beast

    666 KHz - AM Radio Station of the Beast

    66 for 6 - A Beastly Score for an Innings (in cricket)

    6 for 66 - Bowling Figures of the Beast

    6/6/6 - Birthday of the Beast (but in which century?)

    -- Kit

  • July 14, 2009 at 8:27 am

    #1024426

    Kit G (7/14/2009)

    Gaby Abed (7/14/2009)

    Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.

    LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.

    My apologies before hand... but with the upcoming 666 page... I couldn't resist. Enjoy!

    666 - Biblical Number of the Beast

    660 - Approximate Number of the Beast

    DCLXVI - Roman Numeral of the Beast

    665 - Number of the Beast's Older Brother

    667 - Number of the Beast's Younger Sister

    664 or 668 - Number of the Beast's Next-Door Neighbors

    999 - Number of the Australian Beast

    333 - Number of the Semi-Beast (also "Halfway to Hell")

    66 - Number of the Downsized Beast

    6, uh..., I forget - Number of the Blond Beast

    666.0000 - Number of the High Precision Beast

    665.9997856 - Number of the Beast on a Pentium

    0.666 - Number of the Millibeast

    X / 666 - Beast Common Denominator

    0.00150150... - Reciprocal of the Beast

    -666 - Opposite of the Beast

    666i - Imaginary Number of the Beast

    6.66 x 102 - Scientific Notation of the Beast

    25.8069758... - Square Root of the Beast

    443556 - Square of the Beast

    1010011010 - Binary Number of the Beast

    1232 - Octal of the Beast

    29A - Hexidecimal of the Beast

    2.8235 - Log of the Beast

    6.5913 - Ln of the Beast

    1.738 x 10289 - Anti-Log of the Beast

    00666 - Zip Code of the Beast

    666@hell.org - E-mail Address of the Beast

    http://www.666.com - Website of the Beast

    1-666-666-6666 - Phone & FAX Number of the Beast

    1-866-666-6666 - Toll Free Number of the Beast

      (which could also be written 18-666-666-666!)

    1-900-666-6666 - Live Beasts, available now! One-on-one pacts!

      Only $6.66 per minute! (Must be over 6+6+6 years old!)

    666-66-6666 - Social Security Number of the Beast

    Form 10666 - Special IRS Tax Forms for the Beast

    66.6% - Tax Rate of the Beast

    6.66% - 6-Year CD Interest Rate at First Beast Bank of Hell

      ($666 minimum deposit, $666 early withdrawal fee)

    $666/hr - Billing Rate of the Beast's Lawyer

    $665.95 - Retail Price of the Beast

    $710.36 - Price of the Beast plus 6.66% Sales Tax

    $769.95 - Price of the Beast with accessories and replacement soul

    $656.66 - Wal-Mart Price of the Beast (next week $646.66!)

    $55.50 - Monthly Payments for Beast, in 12 easy installments

    Phillips 666 - Gasoline Used by the Beast (regular $6.66/gal)

    Route 666 - Highway of the Beast (where he gets his kicks!)

    666 mph - Speed Limit on the Beast's Highway

    6-6-6 - Fertilizer of the Beast

    666 lb cap - Weight Limit of the Beast

    666 Minutes - Weekly News Show about the Beast (airs daily from

    Midnight to 11:06 a.m., on Cable Channel 666, of course)

    666o F - Oven Temperature for Cooking "Roast Beast"

    666k - Retirement Plan of the Beast

    666 mg - Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast

    Lotus 6-6-6 - Spreadsheet of the Beast

    Word 6.66 - Word Processor of the Beast

    Windows 666 - Bill Gates' Personal Beast Operating System

    #666666 - Font Color of the Beast

    i66686 - CPU of the Beast

    666-I - BMW of the Beast

    IAM 666 - License Plate Number of the Beast

    Formula 666 - All Purpose Cleaner of the Beast

    WD-666 - Spray Lubricant of the Beast

    DSM-666 (rev) - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast

    66.6 MHz - FM Radio Station of the Beast

    666 KHz - AM Radio Station of the Beast

    66 for 6 - A Beastly Score for an Innings (in cricket)

    6 for 66 - Bowling Figures of the Beast

    6/6/6 - Birthday of the Beast (but in which century?)

    Nothing better to do today??? 😉

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

  • July 14, 2009 at 8:31 am

    #1024429

    Nope. This is our company's down time. Ask me again in about two months and I'll be swamped for the next 6 months.

    edit to add how many months I'll be swamped

    -- Kit

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