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Chris Harshman SSC-Forever Points: 42179 More actions · Answer 1

Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:26 AM
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728164 More actions · Answer 2

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183686 More actions · Answer 3

Chris Harshman - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 10:05 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:26 AM
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728164 More actions · Answer 4

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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22598 More actions · Answer 5

Luis Cazares - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 11:19 AM
Chris Harshman - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 10:05 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:26 AM
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On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182631 More actions · Answer 6

Neil Burton - Thursday, March 29, 2018 1:31 AM
Luis Cazares - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 11:19 AM
Chris Harshman - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 10:05 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:26 AM
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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182631 More actions · Answer 7

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

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287015 More actions · Answer 9

Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:26 AM
jasona.work - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:16 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:59 AM
jasona.work - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:52 AM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:34 AM
jasona.work - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:07 AM
Boy, it's going to be a lonely, quiet day today...
Of the other 5 members of the team I'm on:
4 are work-from-home today
1 is on vacation
Who needs human contact?
It's weird. Last week my wife was in Boston with my daughter. Other kid worked late and didn't come home a couple nights. Just me trying to work in silence and dogs staring at me. Very odd. I'm usually alone, but my wife pops in and out and kid usually home around 2-3.
On my telework days, I *have* to eventually turn on a radio or something, and ideally to a news or talk station or I start getting real antsy and can't focus on work.
At least, while I'm the only team member in the office, there's other people in the office from other teams, so there actually is *some* human contact, just not people I normally interact with much.
My favorite would be:
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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442447 More actions · Answer 10

Ed Wagner - Thursday, March 29, 2018 11:40 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:26 AM
jasona.work - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:16 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:59 AM
jasona.work - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:52 AM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:34 AM
jasona.work - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:07 AM
Boy, it's going to be a lonely, quiet day today...
Of the other 5 members of the team I'm on:
4 are work-from-home today
1 is on vacation
Who needs human contact?
It's weird. Last week my wife was in Boston with my daughter. Other kid worked late and didn't come home a couple nights. Just me trying to work in silence and dogs staring at me. Very odd. I'm usually alone, but my wife pops in and out and kid usually home around 2-3.
On my telework days, I *have* to eventually turn on a radio or something, and ideally to a news or talk station or I start getting real antsy and can't focus on work.
At least, while I'm the only team member in the office, there's other people in the office from other teams, so there actually is *some* human contact, just not people I normally interact with much.
My favorite would be:
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😎
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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287015 More actions · Answer 11

Lynn Pettis - Thursday, March 29, 2018 11:48 AM
Ed Wagner - Thursday, March 29, 2018 11:40 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:26 AM
jasona.work - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:16 AM
Eirikur Eiriksson - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:59 AM
jasona.work - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:52 AM
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:34 AM
jasona.work - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:07 AM
Boy, it's going to be a lonely, quiet day today...
Of the other 5 members of the team I'm on:
4 are work-from-home today
1 is on vacation
Who needs human contact?
It's weird. Last week my wife was in Boston with my daughter. Other kid worked late and didn't come home a couple nights. Just me trying to work in silence and dogs staring at me. Very odd. I'm usually alone, but my wife pops in and out and kid usually home around 2-3.
On my telework days, I *have* to eventually turn on a radio or something, and ideally to a news or talk station or I start getting real antsy and can't focus on work.
At least, while I'm the only team member in the office, there's other people in the office from other teams, so there actually is *some* human contact, just not people I normally interact with much.
My favorite would be:
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😎
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String Splitting with True Performance
Best practices on how to ask questions

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

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March 29, 2018 at 12:57 pm

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Any one hear from R Barry Young lately?

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1000539 More actions · Answer 13

Lynn Pettis - Thursday, March 29, 2018 12:57 PM
Any one hear from R Barry Young lately?

Now that you mention it, no. I hope he's OK.

--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".

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442447 More actions · Answer 14

Jeff Moden - Thursday, March 29, 2018 1:01 PM
Lynn Pettis - Thursday, March 29, 2018 12:57 PM
Any one hear from R Barry Young lately?
Now that you mention it, no. I hope he's OK.

I went to a "Killing Cursors" session at SQL Saturday 700. It wasn't really about killing cursors. I was thinking about perhaps doing a presentation about eliminating cursors and he did start a series of articles back in 2009.

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286562 More actions · Answer 15

Jeff Moden - Thursday, March 29, 2018 1:01 PM
Lynn Pettis - Thursday, March 29, 2018 12:57 PM
Any one hear from R Barry Young lately?
Now that you mention it, no. I hope he's OK.

He still posts over at SO pretty frequently. To be honest I spend a lot more time over there lately. Even though the attitude is pretty crappy, at least the software works.

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