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Paul White

00:07

Time went funny after the Y2K bug hit

Sean Gallardy

You spin me right round baby right round

I remember all the fear mongering for Y2K

Paul White

Good times for IT contractors

Sean Gallardy

The spice must flow

2 hours later…

Erik Reasonable Rates Darling

02:01

Yes hello did someone say invoice

Sean Gallardy

02:16

Only if I'm sending it

Paul White

02:48

Inflation has taken a roll on r8s of 24 years ago, sadly

2 hours later…

Paul White

04:39

while (lastXTS >= minUsefulXTS && waitTime < maxWaitTime)
{
    SOS_WaitInfo wi (PWAIT_SLEEP_TASK, PERMANENT_WAIT);
    SleepAndCheckForAbort (SHRINK_CHECK_XTS_INTERVAL, abortState, &wi);
    waitTime += SHRINK_CHECK_XTS_INTERVAL;
    minUsefulXTS = GetXVM ()->GetMinUsefulXTS ();
} // while

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Hannah Vernon

06:04

Wordle 1,236 3/6*

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Paul White

Wordle 1,236 4/6*

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3 hours later…

Zikato

08:59

@HannahVernon one-eyed frog

2 hours later…

John K. N.

10:51

Jó reggelt

2 hours later…

Erik Reasonable Rates Darling

12:23

21 hours ago, by Erik Reasonable Rates Darling

yes in about 12 hours half the country will be terribly upset

Please marvel at my prescience

I’ll wait

@Vérace I pray you didn’t gamble away your drinking money

1 hour later…

Sean Gallardy

13:51

@PaulWhite Where was that code posted? That's uh... real codebase code.

Josh Darnell

"Generated By CoPilot™️" 😜

@ErikReasonableRatesDarling Astounding!

J.D.

@ErikReasonableRatesDarling how much does it cost to marvel? When should I expect an invoice?

Erik Reasonable Rates Darling

14:12

It’s open source

6 hours later…

Sean Gallardy

20:29

Sweet, now you all can fix the bugs on your own! I look forward to all those features being implemented :D

Josh Darnell

20:46

Announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Preview 1 and Copilot in SSMS

75% of that blog title is exciting news.

Hannah Vernon

@ErikReasonableRatesDarling I won't say anything other than "fuuuuuuck"

Sean Gallardy

@JoshDarnell It being 64 bit and an updated VS Shell is truly the shining light

Erik Reasonable Rates Darling

21:25

@HannahVernon you should be excited about the mob of a-list celebrities who have sworn to move to Canada

Josh Darnell

@SeanGallardy Yeah, using the VS installer is also exciting (I guess that overlaps with the VS Shell but I thought it was worth pointing out specifically).

Paul White

Gosh I hope it isn't disappointing

Hopefully, there's a switch to turn off the AI nonsense

Zikato

@PaulWhite The supply does not get to make the demands

Erik Reasonable Rates Darling

I got an SSMS 21 tshirt

And yes the tshirt is in dark mode

Zikato

21:52

That SSMS can legally drink

Paul White

@Zikato Well, they added a switch to not install Azure after saying it wasn't possible before

One can always hope for people to learn from the past

Or docs from the past, as you prefer

Zikato

22:13

haha well done

J.D.

@PaulWhite speaking of docs from the past, we just talked about this the other day. I just stumbled on it while trying to fix some triggers...

Paul White

22:35

Yeah, it's an annoying quirk

Two annoying quirks really

I suppose there's an important reason to fire triggers when no rows are affected

The merge quirk is just an implementation limitation though. Its only function is to catch people out.

Zikato

To separate the men from the boys

Paul White

Maybe

These things happen when you shoehorn something slightly square into a round hole

All statements return a number of rows affected count. Merge is different in that it performs more than one distinct action with different row counts for each

A full implementation would account for that in a neat way, but that's not what we were given

So, we count rows in pseudo tables

It would have been nice to get per action row count and a triggering action name, but here we are

Erik Reasonable Rates Darling

23:26