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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728164 More actions · Answer 1

Jason,

The blog image, is one that you configure in the "Change How My Blog Looks", not your personal avatar.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281324 More actions · Answer 2

Steve Jones - Editor (5/14/2010)
Jason,
The blog image, is one that you configure in the "Change How My Blog Looks", not your personal avatar.

I tried that spot. I get an infinite redirect loop.

See this post about it.

http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic922189-433-1.aspx

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 3

I'm feeling just a little bit sarcastic this friday night...

http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic922329-146-1.aspx

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GilaMonster (5/14/2010)
I'm feeling just a little bit sarcastic this friday night...
http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic922329-146-1.aspx

I think it was just right, Gail!

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728164 More actions · Answer 5

Gail, you weren't that bad. I thought that was pretty nice.

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GilaMonster (5/14/2010)
I'm feeling just a little bit sarcastic this friday night...
http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic922329-146-1.aspx

I thought you should have said "Would you like an apple pie with that?"

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281324 More actions · Answer 7

Nice set of rules / guidelines[/url] for Authors.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 8

I'm all for optimism, but it might be just a little bit misplaced here. http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost922808.aspx

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GilaMonster (5/17/2010)
I'm all for optimism, but it might be just a little bit misplaced here. http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost922808.aspx

Maybe a binary file editor 🙂

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 10

Dave Ballantyne (5/17/2010)
GilaMonster (5/17/2010)
I'm all for optimism, but it might be just a little bit misplaced here. http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost922808.aspx
Maybe a binary file editor 🙂

Oh a hex editor will work. I can probably count on one hand the number of people in the world who know the file structure and page structure well enough to do that, and all but one work at MS (and the one used to), but it'll work.

Don't even want to think how long it'd take if there anything more than a handful of pages damaged.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 397721 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (5/14/2010)
Chris Morris-439714 (5/14/2010)
Anybody with the initials JC is doomed to have uncompetitive people skills but this guy really takes the biscuit.
Apparently he's actually a very nice guy and the attitude is an act that he puts on when posting on forums/writing articles. I think I recall him saying that it was his way of making sure that people pay attention. Not something I agree with (more flies with honey idea), but it's not that he has no people skills, it's that he intentionally acts that way.
(for the record, I don't like him very much)

I've interacted with him a couple of times in the real world and he was a completely nice gentleman. Hard to reconcile with the guy that posts on these forums.

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 12

Um, Steve, not sure what's going on here, but the Database Weekly newsletter shows a link to this article: Are you Making This Common RAM Mistake?, which seems to have been posted by an MS employee, Anu Chawla? Only the article seems to reference the author as Wayne Berry, and the same article is published under his name here[/url]? (noted that google shows he also has twitter posts about the article, can't get to twitter from here)

What's then even more confusing is that the Wayne Berry article then has a link at the bottom to an 'original post' of the article, which takes us to then another blog by Anu Chawla?

Not sure if you inadvertantly posted a link to a plagiarized article or not?

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How best to post your question[/url]
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Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 13

If that is plagiarised, MS needs to be informed (I know a couple people I can speak to there), seeing as that is an MSDN blog.

Note that there's some reasonably bad info there anyway. I kinda went to town over the weekend commenting there.

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GilaMonster (5/17/2010)
If that is plagiarised, MS needs to be informed (I know a couple people I can speak to there), seeing as that is an MSDN blog.
Note that there's some reasonably bad info there anyway. I kinda went to town over the weekend commenting there.

Is that why the comments are disabled? 😉

Noticed that the "other" post with Anu's name attached is for the company that he states was a former employer prior to MS, so he may have just cross-posted the plagiarism.

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How best to post your question[/url]
How to post performance problems[/url]
Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442447 More actions · Answer 15

Grant Fritchey (5/17/2010)
GilaMonster (5/14/2010)
Chris Morris-439714 (5/14/2010)
Anybody with the initials JC is doomed to have uncompetitive people skills but this guy really takes the biscuit.
Apparently he's actually a very nice guy and the attitude is an act that he puts on when posting on forums/writing articles. I think I recall him saying that it was his way of making sure that people pay attention. Not something I agree with (more flies with honey idea), but it's not that he has no people skills, it's that he intentionally acts that way.
(for the record, I don't like him very much)
I've interacted with him a couple of times in the real world and he was a completely nice gentleman. Hard to reconcile with the guy that posts on these forums.

Biggest problem is that the forum(s) are usually the first impression people get of him, and first impressions are really the most important. I find myself turned off by his forum persona enough that I really have no desire to meet him in person.