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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 1

Lynn Pettis (3/9/2010)

Well, time for me to get ready to leave. I have another high school soccer game to officiate. I hope this one is better than the 10 - 0 blow out yesterday by a JV team over a Varsity team.

Chow. Good luck.

We'll zip up the tent when we leave.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442447 More actions · Answer 2

Lynn Pettis

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March 9, 2010 at 3:17 pm

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I think someone has me confused with someone else here.

Dan.Humphries SSChampion Points: 12125 More actions · Answer 3

I thought I would throw my two cents in on this one since I beleive I have likely asked a question in the past that seemed obvious to many. I for my part being new to SQL about 2 years ago had a lot to learn about where was a good source of information. I would often do a google search for something small and get many conflicting answers. I would ask these questions of the forum at first largely becuase I simply did not know were to look. It is one of the many anomalies we find in the Cyber world. We are not willing to trust a white paper from an anonymous author but we often find it very easy to trust completely an anonymous post in a forum.

Dan

If only I could snap my figures and have all the correct indexes apear and the buffer clean and.... Start day dream here.

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 4

Alvin Ramard (3/9/2010)

Lynn Pettis (3/9/2010)

Well, time for me to get ready to leave. I have another high school soccer game to officiate. I hope this one is better than the 10 - 0 blow out yesterday by a JV team over a Varsity team.

Chow. Good luck.

We'll zip up the tent when we leave.

Maybe you need to change your name on here to Mr Lynn Pettis

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281324 More actions · Answer 5

SQLRNNR

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March 9, 2010 at 3:42 pm

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Maybe change it to Dr. Lynn Pettis. 😎

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 6

CirquedeSQLeil (3/9/2010)

Maybe change it to Dr. Lynn Pettis. 😎

Dr. Lynn Pettis, MVP ?

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 7

But don't change it to:

John Dingledangle, BSc, Msc, PhD

(Old joke)

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281324 More actions · Answer 8

Alvin Ramard (3/9/2010)

CirquedeSQLeil (3/9/2010)

Maybe change it to Dr. Lynn Pettis. 😎

Dr. Lynn Pettis, MVP ?

Maybe Dr. Lynn Pettis, MCP (master control program) :Whistling:

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
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SQL RNNR
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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 9

CirquedeSQLeil (3/9/2010)

Alvin Ramard (3/9/2010)

CirquedeSQLeil (3/9/2010)

Maybe change it to Dr. Lynn Pettis. 😎

Dr. Lynn Pettis, MVP ?

Maybe Dr. Lynn Pettis, MCP (master control program) :Whistling:

NO, Master Control Pettis!! 😀

Sorry Lynn

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LutzM SSC Guru Points: 107049 More actions · Answer 10

St. Lynn, OTD (Owner of the Tent in the Desert), HHG (Hula-Hippo-Guard)

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1000539 More actions · Answer 11

Dan.Humphries (3/9/2010)

I thought I would throw my two cents in on this one since I beleive I have likely asked a question in the past that seemed obvious to many. I for my part being new to SQL about 2 years ago had a lot to learn about where was a good source of information. I would often do a google search for something small and get many conflicting answers. I would ask these questions of the forum at first largely becuase I simply did not know were to look. It is one of the many anomalies we find in the Cyber world. We are not willing to trust a white paper from an anonymous author but we often find it very easy to trust completely an anonymous post in a forum.

Well said and I agree with everything except the trust part... I found an easy way to keep from getting burned either by white papers or forums. Remember that Nixon would always say "Trust... but verify"? Heh... yeah... I'm all done with the "trust" part of that. For all that the internet has become, it's still just a well paved on-ramp to a dirt road. Watch for pot holes and nails. 🙂

--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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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442447 More actions · Answer 12

Alvin Ramard (3/9/2010)

CirquedeSQLeil (3/9/2010)

Maybe change it to Dr. Lynn Pettis. 😎

Dr. Lynn Pettis, MVP ?

Sincerely doubt both Dr and MVP. Checked into the Doctorate Program at Colorado Technical University, $60,000. As for MVP, just doubt it at the moment. If I had been nominated, haven't heard a thing, so not holding my breathe on that one.

However, I appreciate the sentiment, thank you! :smooooth: