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Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99009 More actions · Answer 1

That point where you write out quite a long topic and are about to post, to realise all you've done is rant and not ask a question... Back to the drawing board.

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50021 More actions · Answer 2

Thom A - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 7:49 AM
That point where you write out quite a long topic and are about to post, to realise all you've done is rant and not ask a question... Back to the drawing board.

Nah, post the rant here, then go back and phrase it as a question and re-post it...

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 3

Thom A - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 7:49 AM
That point where you write out quite a long topic and are about to post, to realise all you've done is rant and not ask a question... Back to the drawing board.

Snicker. Been there. Done that.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728164 More actions · Answer 4

Well, one more kid gone. Moved the middle one to college yesterday and left him there.

One interesting thing from me. This was his bookshelf, books he brought from home to read. Not for classes, for general interest.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286562 More actions · Answer 5

I have at least briefly mentioned my past as a punk rock musician in Lawrence, KS in the late 80s. The place where most of the shows were at that time was called the Outhouse. It has become somewhat punk rock legend among bands of that time and still gets lots of mention these days. A friend of mine started a major project many years ago to put together a documentary about the cinder block shack in the middle of a corn field that hosted some incredible shows over the years. It is finally going to be released October 14 followed by (what else) a punk rock show down the street. Should be pretty interesting to see this film. I have seen some various parts of it over the years. I have several different segments in the live footage and a couple of interviews. Probably not all that interesting to anybody else but I wanted to share as this is pretty cool even though it was about 2-3 lifetimes ago.

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287015 More actions · Answer 6

Sean Lange - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 9:07 AM
I have at least briefly mentioned my past as a punk rock musician in Lawrence, KS in the late 80s. The place where most of the shows were at that time was called the Outhouse. It has become somewhat punk rock legend among bands of that time and still gets lots of mention these days. A friend of mine started a major project many years ago to put together a documentary about the cinder block shack in the middle of a corn field that hosted some incredible shows over the years. It is finally going to be released October 14 followed by (what else) a punk rock show down the street. Should be pretty interesting to see this film. I have seen some various parts of it over the years. I have several different segments in the live footage and a couple of interviews. Probably not all that interesting to anybody else but I wanted to share as this is pretty cool even though it was about 2-3 lifetimes ago.

Nice. Do you know what network is going to air the it or the name of the show? I'd like to look that one up when it comes around.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286562 More actions · Answer 7

Ed Wagner - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 9:19 AM
Sean Lange - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 9:07 AM
I have at least briefly mentioned my past as a punk rock musician in Lawrence, KS in the late 80s. The place where most of the shows were at that time was called the Outhouse. It has become somewhat punk rock legend among bands of that time and still gets lots of mention these days. A friend of mine started a major project many years ago to put together a documentary about the cinder block shack in the middle of a corn field that hosted some incredible shows over the years. It is finally going to be released October 14 followed by (what else) a punk rock show down the street. Should be pretty interesting to see this film. I have seen some various parts of it over the years. I have several different segments in the live footage and a couple of interviews. Probably not all that interesting to anybody else but I wanted to share as this is pretty cool even though it was about 2-3 lifetimes ago.
Nice. Do you know what network is going to air the it or the name of the show? I'd like to look that one up when it comes around.

At least for now it isn't a tv thing. It is in the theater. 🙂 https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/mobile/index/1549657?utm_medium=bks

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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/
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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442447 More actions · Answer 8

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Really sick of JC and his comments.

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 245813 More actions · Answer 9

Lynn Pettis - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 5:40 PM
Really sick of JC and his comments.

Take comfort in not being alone.

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.

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 10

Phil Parkin - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 5:43 PM
Lynn Pettis - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 5:40 PM
Really sick of JC and his comments.
Take comfort in not being alone.

His comment in the "group by select" thread is his usual disgraceful rudeness, but in the "exclude weekends" and "select statement help" threads although he is on about irrelevant standards (those two threads are in SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 forums respectively, so the standard there should be T-SQL not ANSI/ISO) he isn't rude about it - a big change from the usual Celko. I was quite surprised, but disgraceful and insulting rudeness in one post in three is still totally unacceptable even though it is an improvement on his old do it in almost every post style.

Tom

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287015 More actions · Answer 11

Phil Parkin - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 5:43 PM

Lynn Pettis - Wednesday, August 23, 2017 5:40 PM

Really sick of JC and his comments.

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Take comfort in not being alone.

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Yeah, definitely not alone. Lynn...unleash the hippo! Where did that hippo go, anyway? 😛

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 12

Ed Wagner - Thursday, August 24, 2017 5:13 AM
Where did that hippo go, anyway? 😛

Sorry, all. I invited him over for a pool party and he kinda wandered off to play with the manatees.

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Brandie Tarvin - Thursday, August 24, 2017 5:35 AM
Sorry, all. I invited him over for a pool party and he kinda wandered off to play with the manatees.

be careful, you invite one hippo over, and before you know it you will have 45 of them!
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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 14

Anyone want to help here?
https://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1893562/Using-Try-Catch-With-Stored-Procedures

I'll pass, he's taken none of the advice from the last two threads that I participated in about why the design he's got won't work.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281324 More actions · Answer 15

Sean Lange - Monday, August 21, 2017 1:42 PM
GilaMonster - Monday, August 21, 2017 1:40 PM
Sean Lange - Monday, August 21, 2017 1:26 PM
We were able to catch a few glimpses at about 30-35% but before it got even close to full we couldn't see anything for the storms rolling in. It was very creepy though how dark it got. All was not lost as I was able to experience how the darkness rolled in. And the actual eclipse part was much as I remembered it as a kid in grade school in the 70s. Hopefully in another 7 years I will be able to travel to view the totality (and it won't be cloudy).
I'm eying 2026 in Iceland. August, so possibility of eclipse and northern lights in one trip 🙂
That, or 2030 when the path of totality goes 270km south of Johannesburg.
I saw the full eclipse in 2002, spectacular!
Northern lights are truly amazing. We could see them occasionally when I lived in Seattle but the year I lived in Alaska we got to see them quite frequently. I like the idea of Iceland in 2026. Would really like to visit there someday anyway so why not do it during a great time!!!

I enjoyed the lights in Alaska when I lived there. It was cool.

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