November 24, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Welcome to The Thread, Les!! 😀
In order to avoid redundancy and repetition and redundancy, we have established an informal rule that newcomers first review all previous posts to see if their comments have already been discussed at length.
Please take notes as you review all prior posts, because there will be a brief quiz to establish that you are now familiar with the material, at which point you will be given the official title of "ThreadHead" and offered your choice of:
1. cte or subquery
2. numbers or tally table
3. thrice-damned cursor or elegant and efficient set-based solution
4. pork chop or steak
5. lightsabre, katana, longbow, or trebuchet
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November 24, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Bob Hovious 24601 (11/24/2009)
Welcome to The Thread, Les!! 😀In order to avoid redundancy and repetition and redundancy, we have established an informal rule that newcomers first review all previous posts to see if their comments have already been discussed at length.
Thanks!
That informal rule seems very wise -- I will get right on that. Alas, I am a bit of a slow reader so it may take me some time to work my way through it. It will help a great deal if everyone would refrain from posting anything additional until I am finished. Thanks for your help in this matter.:-P
- Les
November 24, 2009 at 5:13 pm
It will help a great deal if everyone would refrain from posting anything additional until I am finished. Thanks for your help in this matter. [Tongue]
You're gonna fit right in...
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November 24, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Bob Hovious 24601 (11/24/2009)
Welcome to The Thread, Les!! 😀In order to avoid redundancy and repetition and redundancy, we have established an informal rule that newcomers first review all previous posts to see if their comments have already been discussed at length.
Please take notes as you review all prior posts, because there will be a brief quiz to establish that you are now familiar with the material, at which point you will be given the official title of "ThreadHead" and offered your choice of:
1. cte or subquery
2. numbers or tally table
3. thrice-damned cursor or elegant and efficient set-based solution
4. pork chop or steak
5. lightsabre, katana, longbow, or trebuchet
ummm
1. CTE
2. Alpha Table
3. Set based cursors 😛
4. Steak
5. All of the above and a ballista.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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November 24, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Bob Hovious 24601 (11/24/2009)
Welcome to The Thread, Les!! 😀In order to avoid redundancy and repetition and redundancy, we have established an informal rule that newcomers first review all previous posts to see if their comments have already been discussed at length.
Please take notes as you review all prior posts, because there will be a brief quiz to establish that you are now familiar with the material, at which point you will be given the official title of "ThreadHead" and offered your choice of:
1. cte or subquery
2. numbers or tally table
3. thrice-damned cursor or elegant and efficient set-based solution
4. pork chop or steak
5. lightsabre, katana, longbow, or trebuchet
Welcome, Les!
One thing you'll see as you flip through the year's worth of discussion is that this is more of a water-cooler environment and that the kvetching about posts in the technical sections of SSC alternates with casual conversation, public attaboys (or attagirls), and quite a bit of verbal horseplay. I suspect that the advice to review all previous posts falls in this last category. (Bob, please forgive my popping that balloon......)
Despite the freewheeling atmosphere, you should also be aware that some of the top practitioners of MS-SQL, including several honored by MS as "MVP"s hang out here, so it'll certainly be worth your time to stay in touch.
November 24, 2009 at 7:00 pm
CirquedeSQLeil (11/24/2009)
Bob Hovious 24601 (11/24/2009)
Welcome to The Thread, Les!! 😀In order to avoid redundancy and repetition and redundancy, we have established an informal rule that newcomers first review all previous posts to see if their comments have already been discussed at length.
Please take notes as you review all prior posts, because there will be a brief quiz to establish that you are now familiar with the material, at which point you will be given the official title of "ThreadHead" and offered your choice of:
1. cte or subquery
2. numbers or tally table
3. thrice-damned cursor or elegant and efficient set-based solution
4. pork chop or steak
5. lightsabre, katana, longbow, or trebuchet
ummm
1. CTE
2. Alpha Table
3. Set based cursors 😛
4. Steak
5. All of the above and a ballista.
Watch it Jason!!!!! Don't give away the answers!!!!!
😛
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November 24, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Bob Hovious 24601 (11/24/2009)
1. cte or subquery2. numbers or tally table
3. thrice-damned cursor or elegant and efficient set-based solution
4. pork chop or steak
5. lightsabre, katana, longbow, or trebuchet
1. APPLY
2. ROW_NUMBER
3. triangular join
4. a nice green salad
5. Sith lightning
:w00t:
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November 24, 2009 at 9:05 pm
At this point I am completely lost on where THE THREAD is, though I didn't see a #6 movie or a #7 book.
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November 24, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Steve Jones - Editor (11/24/2009)
At this point I am completely lost on where THE THREAD is, though I didn't see a #6 movie or a #7 book.
You're lost? How can that be? Maybe you need to read the whole thing again, from the beginning.
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November 24, 2009 at 9:21 pm
john.arnott (11/24/2009)
Despite the freewheeling atmosphere, you should also be aware that some of the top practitioners of MS-SQL, including several honored by MS as "MVP"s hang out here, so it'll certainly be worth your time to stay in touch.
With those words of assurance from John, I am joining the thread. I had been following most part of this thread for 3 months now, but had never got into the thread.
For a moment, when I saw Bob's welcome post to Les, (asking to follow what happened in this thread over the year) I thought it would be not possible for me to read the remaining 9 months.
Anyway I am now in this thread.
Happy Thanksgiving !
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November 24, 2009 at 9:27 pm
The Thread is everywhere, Steve....
(Hi, Bru and welcome.)
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November 24, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Bob Hovious 24601 (11/24/2009)
Hi, Bru and welcome
Thanks Bob for your cordial welcome. (When compared to welcoming Les ;-))
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November 24, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Remember always, the water cooler this is. Here may you veg (or my case run to the desert), rant a bit, and even ask for help on other threads should you find yourself in something you are not sure about.
Welcome to our haven, Bru! 😉
November 24, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Turkey for me
Turkey for you
Let's eat the turkey
In my big brown shoe
Love to eat the turkey
At the table
I once saw a movie
With Betty Grable
Eat that turkey
All night long
Fifty million Elvis fans
Can't be wrong
Turkey lurkey doo and
Turkey lurkey dap
I eat that turkey
Then I take a nap
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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November 24, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Woot - just cracked the top 100 here at SSC. It only took 1918 points.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events
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