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Lamak

7:01 PM

@JackDouglas hey, the heap ambassador is here

Jack Douglas

Hi @Lamak

billinkc

Comrade ambassador

Jack Douglas

@billinkc you wont say that when you are a moderator

billinkc

That's funny

Lamak

@JackDouglas what a coincidence that you appear here when the US decided to reopen the embassy in cuba

billinkc

7:03 PM

Amabassador KFC just doesn't have a ring to it

Jack Douglas

@Lamak have you noticed Sanchez is doing pretty well over here?

billinkc

Hamper

A hamper refers to a set of related basket-like items. In primarily British usage, it refers to a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food. In North America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle, often a basket, for clean (out of the dryer or off the line) or dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper". Typically a laundry hamper is used for storage and will be sturdier, taller and have a lid while a laundry basket is open and used mainly for transport. However, some parts of North America make no distinction between...

So children don't get wrapped presents or are christmas hampers for more adult to adult giving?

Lamak

@JackDouglas yup, hopefully he keeps playing like that

Jack Douglas

@billinkc ours don't we put them in a pillow case and they dip in

exactly the same suspense as wrapped, but a lot less effort/hassle

billinkc

I picked up a little wristwatch for the older boy. I kid you not, the moment I put the last bit of tape on it, the bloody alarm went off

The greatest thing in the world, for me, is gift bags. I hate wrapping

Jack Douglas

7:10 PM

'cos you mucked around with it to 'test' it before you wrapped it?

billinkc

@JackDouglas No

...yes

So, I made the calculation that he won't be near the tree at 709 to hear it go off

Jack Douglas

@Lamak wait, is his last name really "Sánchez Sánchez"?

Lamak

@JackDouglas yup

Jack Douglas

seems excessive

Lamak

@JackDouglas I mean, last names, plural

well, we have 2 last names, so

Jack Douglas

7:14 PM

I don't think you can have more that one last name...

Lamak

@JackDouglas we do here

one from the father and one from the mother

and there's no "changing your last name if you are the wife" thing

Jack Douglas

"Chilean society and their obsession with last names" - is that true?

basically it's the opposite of what's normal here - children take the mothers name, right?

OK, both, but the father's name get's dropped for their children

Lamak

@JackDouglas obsession?

Jack Douglas

either that or each generation has more names than the last and that could get annoying

Lamak

I would say that's the opposite

with the "should I change my last name if I marry" and such

@JackDouglas children take both last names, the first one from the father, the second one from the mother

@JackDouglas ?

nope

Jack Douglas

7:20 PM

Mr A B + Mrs C D ----> Child B D, right?

Lamak

@JackDouglas nope

would be Child A C

> I’m speaking of where you went to KINDERGARTEN. Believe it or not, these factors also still matter in Chile

^^^^ that's just ridiculous

Jack Douglas

oh, OK, so the father's name carries on down the generations?

@Lamak I promise not to believe everything I read on the internet any more!

Lamak

@JackDouglas yes, that's true

@JackDouglas well, I'm sure that somethings are true about last names, but they matter just as much as they do on every other place

billinkc

I wonder if that naming schema makes it easier or harder for the phishers to get your mother's maiden name. Do y'all even have to deal with those shenanigans in peru?

Lamak

@billinkc nope. There's no changing names for the mother, so no need to try to guess it

Jack Douglas

7:27 PM

peru?

billinkc

If you call a financial institution here, they usually ask for some private information to verify who you are. Mother's maiden name is extremely popular. Assume that is not a practice there?

@JackDouglas (trolling)

Jack Douglas

<--- slow

Lamak

@billinkc nah

billinkc

Wish we'd get rid of it

Lamak

just to be sure that you are actually @billinkc, what's your mother's maiden name?

swasheck

7:29 PM

billinkc

@Lamak Sanchez Sánchez -> Half Murican, half not

Jack Douglas

always been a bit suspicious of 'eau de toilette'

...though my French isn't very good

billinkc

Swasheck, you knew my mother?

Mike Fal

I'm beginning to think my architecture team is populated by idiots. Apparently they think it will take 4-6 weeks to stand up 2 file share VMs and swing our SQL backups over to them.

Adding to the fact that apparently clustering VMs is a "no-no"

billinkc

that's it, I'm quitting my job

> Your Klout Score went up

Time to retire

swasheck

7:56 PM

@MikeFal we have that here. they have a "policy" against RDM volumes to facilitate windows failover clustering

Mike Fal

@swasheck I honestly don't care so much about that, I'm happy if they want to leverage vmotion. I'm more stunned that they think it would take 3 months for this project. I just need a file share server. 1 file share server, 2 LUNs.

billinkc

They have to mine the precious minerals, forge them into the metal and that takes at least 3 weeks, assuming you aren't fighting the Chinese over the land

swasheck

@MikeFal we were just told it'd take 3-4 days to change the names of our mount points

:/

Mike Fal

@billinkc Obviously we need more pylons

billinkc

Bro, do you even Aiur?

bluefeet

8:07 PM

do we want this on dba?

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Q: Can I sacrifice consistency to allow concurrent 'insert or update' and read access to a single table with SQL Server?

I have a table that contains two columns: a resource key, and (very roughly) when it was last accessed. I have a number of servers that are periodically dumping data about resource accesses to the table. They should either update the access time for a resource key if it already exists, or insert...

Mike Fal

@billinkc I don't always play Starcraft 2, but when I do, I play Terran.

billinkc

@MikeFal I don't always play SC2, but when I do, I get pwned like a gheyz0rn00b that I am

Mike Fal

Shit, son. I never play ladder. I'd get the same treatment

Jack Douglas

@bluefeet my guess is yes, ish

Mike Fal

I play the campaign and 'eff around vs. the computer with my friends.

billinkc

8:11 PM

Are you able to play offline?

The older boy would like to play offline as he used to be able to, many years ago. The documentation basically says instead of having the handy play as guest, you need to disconnect from the interwebs and it just works

Assuming you've logged in within past 30 days

I don't want him to have access to my battle.net account so that's out of the question

Mike Fal

It's been over a year since I've played. I think I played online, just against the computer.

Jack Douglas

theregister.co.uk/2014/12/17/…

ho ho

billinkc

I need to modify a column that has a unique index on it. Knowing nothing else, preference on drop and create the index versus disabling and then re-enabling with the check option?

Jack Douglas

you have the option?

billinkc

I assume so. I usually just go the lazy route of drop and recreate but thought I'd ask

Jack Douglas

8:20 PM

I'd guess you will have to drop that index even if you can disable the constraint

but I'm just guessing

billinkc

Ah, well then. I will continue with my lazy route

Mike Fal

I don't think there's a whole lot of difference. Re-enabling with check does a rebuild, so there ya' go.

billinkc

Ok dokey. Sort of figured it'd net out to the same but am trying to consciously ask myself if this is "really" the best way to do tasks.

swasheck

8:35 PM

hahaha

> 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies': Any magic the trilogy had is mostly gone

billinkc

This horse will be beaten until it resembles the author

swasheck

i wonder if "eventual consistency" strikes back?

> Johns Hopkins mistakenly welcomes wrong students

mmarie

8:54 PM

My guess: someone queried for status <> 'Admitted' instead of = 'Admitted'
Because they forgot to check it before they pulled it. You would be surprised how often this happens in end user land.

JNK

Or Status <> 'Rejected' and 'Waitlist' got in

swasheck

but we absolutely MUST have the ability to write our own reports. we can't wait for data pros to handle it. WE NEED IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!

mmarie

@JNK Or they updated their status names and now instead of 'Rejected' it is 'Reject' so the not in clause failed.

swasheck

clearly i have a very dim view of end-users being able to fling their own poo against my servers

mmarie

I could make up these scenarios all day. I worked on a university data warehouse earlier this year where we were rolling out self-service BI. I have tons of these examples.

After months of validation and arguing about correctness of data, the marketing department at the university requested that we turn off DQS and MDS because although the cleansed data was probably more accurate it was making their numbers look worse and they weren't prepared to explain why that happened.

Mike Fal

9:01 PM

@mmarie How's BG treatin' ya?

mmarie

Good! Other than I'm in Toledo, OH right now

Mike Fal

Already slapped you on a client or is this training?

mmarie

client. but I'm fine on this project. It's well within my comfort zone.

This job is a lot like my last job but my coworkers are nicer and more competent and I am less stressed. (And I work from home and travel outside KC/Seattle to see clients.)

billinkc

9:29 PM

Also, does anyone know of a xml file datatype to sql data type conversion "chart/resource/site"? — Rolland_Deschain 5 mins ago

Pardon my ignorance, but isn't the flexibility of XML part of the selling point? There is no type structure to hold you down?

swasheck

cant nobody take my type, cant nobody hold me down. oh-oh i've got to keep on movin'

billinkc

I'd sing the next line but that's the extent of my knowledge

swasheck

metrolyrics.com/cant-nobody-hold-me-down-lyrics-p-diddy.html

billinkc

dats cheating

swasheck

if there are no rules, how do you determine cheats?

billinkc

9:35 PM

"Once you're comfortable with your unit tests, you can go ahead and deploy that" Shoot, I'm so comfortable, I'm not even testing

@swasheck It's like "the game"

(you lost)

mmarie

@billinkc Have you been talking to one of my former coworkers? ;-)

billinkc

I was actually taking the role of not-testing

swasheck

psh. testing? isnt that why we have prod?

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billinkc

That's the funny thing, the dev team didn't test (expanded a column) and when you only expand it in the app and not in the data mart, well, you can bet she gets her cable fixed

swasheck

today just got awesome

we're trolling dev here now ... it's awesom

billinkc

9:57 PM

Black and white photo + weird head angle + porthole style photo make this dude look like he's a Spock-wannabe plus.google.com/u/0/+KentonStandard/posts

Says the guy with a Spock hat. Fascinating

swasheck

10:56 PM

SODA POP AND RITALIN

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