Do the people that pay for the careers.so stuff have access to our email accounts, BlooFoot?

(no urgency so no @'ing)

I finally looked at the job section to respond and realized they hadn't used it to reach out to me so now I'm curious how they got my sign-up email

I'd have assumed for proper monetization, they'd have to reach out via the site as previous orgs had

@billinkc i've had some corkers like that over the years

Awesome news for Postgres: blog.2ndquadrant.com/bdr-is-coming-to-postgresql-9-6

@Phil and early adopters can possibly upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.6.0 on Thursday

@dezso I'm sure Phil has already some instances running 9.6 beta ;)

@ypercubeᵀᴹ our company also started on an RC1 (don't tell anyone)

@dezso I was planning to do some tests, too.

I guess I'll do them on 9.6.0 ;)

@ypercubeᵀᴹ Part of my ever-long quest to banish MySQL from this planet!

UPSAT: open source satellite

Hi

@JamesLupolt Hi, long time no see

did that Itineris job get anywhere before you left?

yep I've been busy!

So have I

No -- it's part of a project that seems to be eternally on hold

so little time for trolling lately

Around the time I left, I found out they'd spend millions of pounds on the project and had nothing to show more than an architecture diagram

Didn't want to influence you at the time, but I was kind of expecting that

Heh

Is that just how that types of ERP project tends to be?

Maybe, but they have a rep for milking larger customers and not delivering

Which is why they're struggling against a half-decent competitor in the utilities market

And in any case, I don't think the utilities market has enough resemblance to manufacturing to try and make an add-on to a manufacturing oriented ERP in order to cater to that market

Maybe you mentioned and I missed it, where are you working now?

A hedge fund

going the @swasheck route, soon you'll be trolling mongo admins

They seem to be stagnating. Clients are withdrawing money and not much is happening.

Nooo.

Apparently they ruled out a MongoDB migration shortly before I started.

I was re-reading this today: sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_white/archive/2012/04/29/…

Do you know if there is a way to translate the groups in the memo back to table names?

If you're asking me you're overexpecting :)

Just asking anyone really

What's new with you? Still doing Dynamics consulting?

Not much, a new version was released recently changed the game entirely (cloud based, azure, no on-prem etc) taking up a lot of time.

Microsoft not being very helpful doesn't help, so working overtime a lot

Ah, I didn't know.

Will any of your clients still want something on-prem?

Yes

I have a client based in paris doing defense contracting for several countries

the Russians and Israelis aren't stoked about their orders and bill of materials being stored in a cloud

and smaller companies being scared of the cost of a cloud solution

What will they do instead? Stay with older versions?

Thing is, the new version isn't even full featured, they lack stuff that is in the previous version plus printing and warehouse barcode scanning still sucks so...

And azure private cloud should come anytime now, so the new version will at some point be supported on prem, so a lot of them either go with the older version or wait

How high are the odds of Azure private cloud coming out and being usable?

I've been hearing about it for over 2 years now

I think they were calling it something like Azure Stack

Yes I forgot the sarcasm tag, it's been coming "real soon now" for years

but the prospective customers don't realize that (yet)

I'm not too confident for the dynamics market in Belgium, the smaller companies think it's getting too expensive and we don't have that many large companies

@JamesLupolt sounds like Azure Stuck (in development ;)

Plus larger companies tend to go with Avanade/Accenture

@TomV too much reading. what'd i miss?

@swasheck James is working at an investment company, I was teasing him with the use of mongodb

You didn't miss a lot

@JamesLupolt it seems like there is since @PaulWhite did it in the image

@TomV sucker. investment companies are a unique culture

(since my typing is being monitored)

@swasheck Oh I forgot, you (they)'re right

did you hear that Europa has the farts?

that's why we're supposed to stay away from it

Europe is in many messes but I'm not sure which one you are talking about this time

@TomV Europa

@swasheck Yes, I should ask a better question. I'm not sure how he did it. I guess just reasoning.

@swasheck Googling "Europa farts" yields this: Swedish footballer sent off for farting during match : theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/22/…

Peculiar

deliberate provocation indeed

I guess you can mostly tie them back by matching the cardinality estimates in the plan

@JamesLupolt well i pinged @PaulWhite to see if he would show up

Ah OK

but apparently our @PaulWhite signal is broken

I figure he gets lots of questions, so I don't usually @ him

@PaulWhite @PaulWhite @PaulWhite

@JamesLupolt very kind of you

Still struggling with the fish joke, perhaps

@AndriyM That one hasn't sufficiently been explained at great length to be fair

@TomV I also work at an investment company....or a stock brokerage firm

@JamesLupolt heresy. Should be @Him, the lord of plans and undocumented trace flags ;)

haha

@Lamak Ok, that's it, I'm getting out of all my funds as we speak

All 0 of them

So this new company I'm working for... They have only one other DBA. He mostly works with Sybase

In my 3rd week he was on holiday and their main datacenter lost power

I spent a weekend figuring out how everything worked and bringing it back up

fsck Sybase

Sybase is great. It doesn't have semicolons

It forces you to save one byte per query by not terminating statements

and the isql client is almost as good as sqlplus

@JamesLupolt In other words, it's not half-assed

@TomV good choice

To explain the joke, I tried to combine your two sentences in one.

I think I understood the joke but not the explanation

@JamesLupolt no semicolon ~= not half-assed ~= great

@JamesLupolt Because it wasn't explained at great length

ah yes... that's what i thought you meant

now that's a win! :

@JamesLupolt (@swasheck) Sorry I did hear the pings but was running a full-screen app that was taking my whole attention and didn't want to switch away. I need to get some sleep, but when I get back I'll try to answer your question.

gosh. now i feel bad

@swasheck No worries, I don't mind being pinged at all. If I don't want to respond immediately, I won't :)

My working theory is that fish are just intrinsically funny.

yeah ... but looks arent everything

@TomV exactly