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The world is full of interesting yearly traditions. Take for example the tomato and orange throwing events, the buffet for monkeys, and the cheese rolling festivities. With such examples of human creativity, we at Stack Overflow could not pass on this opportunity. We have created and maintained our own yearly tradition – Winter Bash!

This year we are attempting to knit our users together in our love for hats for the 7th year in a row. And this year, we’ve even added a way for you to get creative without wasting any real yarn. Starting now (December 12, 2018) and going through …

George.Palacios

The buffet for monkeys sounds like lunchtime at my work.

ypercubeᵀᴹ

1:50 PM

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A: Winter Bash 2018 Knitting

Zane

2:25 PM

@TomV lol just saw you MS support comment.

Zane

3:29 PM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ Nice. I upvoted a ton of those.

ypercubeᵀᴹ

@Zane thnx!

It's funny but people downvote even on such a silly question/topic.

Meta ...

George.Palacios

@ypercubeᵀᴹ Aw man those are cool glasses

Lamak

wait….winterbash started already?

ypercubeᵀᴹ

@George.Palacios easy to get, just vote on a old question (or answer?, not sure). Old = one year old

George.Palacios

@ypercubeᵀᴹ Hold my beer

Zane

3:44 PM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ Never enough excuses to be an anus for some people.

George.Palacios

Hahaha I didn't realise you could make them tiny

Excellent

Peter Vandivier

3:55 PM

https://dba.stackexchange.com/q/224781/68127
is there a consensus on just completely stripping out a user's repro script? like... bravo for the "_completeness_" bit of the MVCE, but the first part is it's meant to be "_minimal_". especially for 👋 **New Users**, I just worry it's a bit aggressive

seems like that could just be some sample data & sample results though, the DDL is just a bunch of extra words

also... why do i fail on markdown? 🤦‍♂️

@George.Palacios wait... tiny beers? tiny hats? tiny anuses? i'm so lost...

George.Palacios

@PeterVandivier I feel something like DBFiddle would be exceptionally useful here

@PeterVandivier Join us

Peter Vandivier

@George.Palacios yea... that was a thought i had, glad of the reinforcement though. ty

George.Palacios

I guess the problem with a fiddle though is that it's an outside resource and useless to anyone reading the site in a year or so

Peter Vandivier

also true

but if it's "useless" anyway, then the fiddle is a nice middle ground so the New User doesn't feel dumped on. like - they went to the effort of putting up a complete repro script and it just got straight up deleted by higher rep users.

George.Palacios

@PeterVandivier Did that happen on the question you linked?

Peter Vandivier

4:03 PM

i was just trying to feel out if that was a sensible instinct before i went in and made that edit.

although now i'm in the fiddle i think i need to wait for the user to clarify what the dbms was. i thought it was mysql, but it looks like it may be sqlite ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

George.Palacios

3 hats already

Not sure how. Wasn't really trying

If I make my avatar just pure white, then I'll just be a hat. I'm a genius.

Excellent

Evan Carroll

4:29 PM

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/happening-uk-simple-guide-100-words-181212133401663.html
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2018/dec/12/tory-mps-trigger-vote-of-no-confidence-in-may-amid-brexit-uncertainty-politics-live

What a shit show

George.Palacios

@EvanCarroll I despair to be honest.

Evan Carroll

Good, despair is good. Corbyn is in the background so at least the UK won't go UKIP when the shit really does hit the fan and "the establishment" fails.

George.Palacios

@EvanCarroll Well let's see if we still have a government in the morning :)

Evan Carroll

I'm of the mindset that no government is better than neoliberal government.

So godspeed.

You would think Sinn Fein would have to be the most boring group of radicals in the world to miss the opportunity to push things over the edge.

Swear allegiance, have a vote of no confidence to throw the government out, then don't swear allegiance to the new government...

WHERE IS THEIR STYLE?

George.Palacios

Im shocked the DUP lasted as long as they did towing the line to be honest.

Evan Carroll

4:42 PM

DUP looks to be one of many casualties of May, good on her.

George.Palacios

Hah yeah

Evan Carroll

You think N. Ireland will vote to reunify and stay in the EU?

George.Palacios

I don't have a clue anymore.

It's really really hard to make any predictions at this stage

Evan Carroll

I agree. Here is my take on the chances. It seems pretty likely at this point that the UK won't leave the EU. Which was my prediction early on, and I've got $200 on it so I'm biased but it still seems safe.

But I would put money on the Scottish referendum returning if Ireland reunifies and stays.

George.Palacios

@EvanCarroll I'd put money on that eventuality if the Tory government crumbles too - SNP have said they'd back Labour on that condition.

And to be honest at this stage, who could blame them!

And I very much doubt we'll see another Tory majority for a decade or so.

Evan Carroll

4:49 PM

Labour is still a super shit party.

George.Palacios

@EvanCarroll They all are right now I feel

Evan Carroll

I totally agree, but they're the same idiots that though Tony Blair was a good idea.

George.Palacios

@EvanCarroll Home time now, let's see what madness tomorrow brings

Evan Carroll

I think she'll survive the vote. It's not her job to get a deal done. It's her job to delay the deal so they get a mandate for another vote.

ypercubeᵀᴹ

The deal has been delayed more by people who claim to want Brexit more than May.

Evan Carroll

4:54 PM

I don't think many of the people that claim to "want Brexit" really want Brexit.

And that seems to be evidenced by their before-and-after statements around the time of Brexit.

Zane

Excellent now my dog has a hat.

Peter Vandivier

@Zane that’s the dream

Evan Carroll

5:28 PM

Super geekly awesome blog blog.k3170makan.com

Zane

6:38 PM

Love that oracle sql developer asks you for java pathing and then throws a fit if it doesn't like the java.exe you're using. Is there some reason the installation just doesn't include that or is it just to be a pain in the butt?

McNets

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Q: Can not import a .sql file of 2.3M

I want to import a .sql file through the PHPMyAdmin interface. I am getting this error message: No data was received to import. Either no file name was submitted, or the file size exceeded the maximum size permitted by your PHP configuration. In php.ini file, I have these values: uploa...

mysql phpmyadmin

^^^ SO question?

Zane

I'd think so.

McNets

It is about importing a .sql file (having MySQL tables populated with data) — Billal Begueradj 52 secs ago

Still not clear to me

I am going to delete this question because the issue was that I forgot to restart Apache server. Thank you @McNets — Billal Begueradj 33 secs ago

Zane

Well at least it's taken care of itself.

McNets

6:54 PM

yep

Evan Carroll

7:20 PM

So in 2018, Pg wins DB of the Year again.

my bet is that it gets 2019 too

The absolutely numbers thing is going to make that site very amusing and boring.

For example, the only database with any real upwards momentum that isn't Pg, is Mongo. And it's only growing at 50% the "absolutely number"

so unless you think Mongo is going to growing exponentially, you don't have to make any predictions about Pg or the rest of the scene.

Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL will continue to fall but even if they climb they would have to turn around the trend and actually grow again at the Pg-rate to even be in the game.

MySQL is down -156.82 points ytd. If they stopped that, it'd be amazing. But I don't thin it's worth entertaining when all of the big three are red 50-150pts an uptick of 75 points.

Tom V

@Zane isn't anything related to Java like that?

My brother is totally not into IT (he works as a logistics manager) but he knows java

> I know Java, it's the software who's splash screen tells you it's time to get a coffee while it's starting, right?

Zane

7:39 PM

@TomV Yes. The application is a nightmare.

@EvanCarroll I didn't vote for it.

Evan Carroll

db-engines.com/en/ranking

Zane

8:00 PM