The Heap™ – Consultancy ©® - 2014-09-26 (page 2 of 2)

8:01 PM

FYI folks the sqlsaturday.com site is also plain text (no cert), so if you are entering your password there, be mindful that it is not as secure as you might expect.

Kermit

@PaulWhite time to serial downvote you

Aaron Bertrand

(And again, make your PASS password completely unique and not anything at all like any pattern you use for other sites.)

Kermit

@PaulWhite your stack overflow rep stinks

Paul White

Yeah I know. It's way too high.

billinkc

pass@word1 works wonders, except for azure VMs

There I have to use pass@word2

swasheck

8:09 PM

Password123!

Kermit

@billinkc woah, i use pass@word3 !

Lamak

you guys should use contr@seña1!

billinkc

@Kermit I figured yours was VerticaBoom!

@Lamak I think your keyboard's broken

Lamak

I thought you knew spanish dude

swasheck

how'd you get that thar squiggly line, boy?

Lamak

8:12 PM

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billinkc

@Lamak I only know spanish ladies

Las mujeres, s'il vous plait

Lamak

@billinkc you are so smooth

billinkc

like mantequilla

Lamak

so, you would be butters

Ok, I'm out. Have a nice weekend people

billinkc

Do the same

swasheck

8:18 PM

YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!!!!

Lamak

@swasheck you'll have a nice weekend and that's the end of it

billinkc

@swasheck Drink whiskey

swasheck

@billinkc challenge: accepted

i am a slave to my vices. i stand on principle until i sell out for the right price

billinkc

Between now and I forget to order it early, find me a very nice whiskey for my father-in-law. He drinks some Canadian one by the cratefull. Last year, I got some very nice scotch which, while referenced as scotch whiskey, is an entirely different beverage

swasheck

@billinkc highwest.com/spirits/double-rye

oh. i wouldnt categorize it as "very nice" but it's a good double rye

billinkc

8:25 PM

Is a double rye going to be a "normal" one?

swasheck

double the amount of rye in the grain bill. extremely smooth

not sure what you mean by "normal"

billinkc

Me neither

If I like dark spiced rum and someone gave me that weird coconut stuff, I would not be pleased. Polite but looking for a potted plant to water

swasheck

i did a whiskey tasting with a friend and the double rye was by far our favorite. friend isn't much of a scotch guy (i like it) but we both agreed that the double rye

@billinkc ah. i see. then yeah - a double rye is not "out there" ...

it's both normal and amazing

billinkc

Well then, Christmas present may be locked down

swasheck

as a whiskey-lover, i'd not turn down a crate of high west

billinkc

8:32 PM

At the wedding this past weekend, the groom had 18 year old Jameson for him and I think the crowd got the 12 year (I was too busy with his beer to notice or care). Can you identify the difference between the two by taste?

JNK

It's escalating

@AllenKinsel "STFU" You aren't the first boy to say this to me.

Tweeted by datachick on September 26, 2014 at 8:35 PM in reply to AllenKinsel

To someone who told her to have a drink

Paul White

Karens gonna Karen.

swasheck

@billinkc depends. sometimes. i can with scotch, for sure

Paul White

Only if the second drink arrives 6 years later.

swasheck

@JNK that whole thread is so full of WTF

JNK

8:45 PM

yep

on that note im going home early

later!

Aaron Bertrand

Instead of bashing #sqlpass I chose to help 3 fellow community members today. PASS it on!

Tweeted by ryanjadams on September 26, 2014 at 8:40 PM

Where is all this alleged bashing of PASS?

"Hey, you have a password vulnerability, you've known about it for a while, I'm just going to tell the members because they deserve to know."

Where is the bashing in that? I'm so confused.

swasheck

@AaronBertrand well i guess you can definitely take out the P from PASS

i see this and i read

> Person 1: Tom Brady hasn't won a SuperBowl since Spygate

> Person 2: Stop being such a hater

billinkc

Soylent green is people!

Y the hate?

People give their right arms to make soylent green the best they can

billinkc

9:05 PM

@bflippin Have you not been told to shut up yet? I was. Maybe you should calm down until the others say it's okay to debate again

Tweeted by datachick on September 26, 2014 at 9:03 PM in reply to bflippin

Aaron Bertrand

"Go have a drink" and "shut up" are synonyms? Interesting

billinkc

Boys huff

3

swasheck

@AaronBertrand what nonsense. holy cow.

Mike Fal

I really need to stop following Karen.

Aaron Bertrand

Oh my, you follow her, you poor thing

Mike Fal

9:19 PM

Yeah, I don't have anything against her. The problem is, the tweets and FB posts are so damn spammy

I just hadn't gotten around to it.

Aaron Bertrand

You'll unfollow her and it will be like switching from Insane Clown Posse to the teletubbies

Mike Fal

What I found amusing was she tweeted earlier about not following the voting hubub because there was to much noise. Irony much?

swasheck

i just got sick of the nasa tweets

Mike Fal

That's just one part of it

swasheck

again. i'm a newcomer to the pass/sqlnerd subculture. i'm trying to get integrated, but i dont know jack about most of the people.

Aaron Bertrand

9:24 PM

@swasheck I'll give you the rundown over beers. Nothing I'd ever write down.

James

@AaronBertrand @AaronBertrand @PaulWhite Sorry if my comments were confusing earlier. What I meant was that PASS seems to have lost a lot of credibility, and now is hopefully a good time to bring out all the issues when people are more likely to want to see the organisation change.

swasheck

@AaronBertrand i owe you a few so that sounds good

billinkc

Change? No, we must defend to the last our embattled fiefdoms

swasheck

@James press the reset button?

@MikeFal you shameful bashing wall of text is a hit piece. full of slander and libel. why can't you just extend a bit of gracious understanding? have you been drinking too much h8terade with brent? stop dogpiling on the voting thing by generating faux rage over the password thing. dont kick people while they're down. pick them up gently and tell them that they're doing well, even when all of the evidence is in direct opposition to that.

(i agree with nothing i just typed, btw)

James

I've never read her Twitter before. It sounds like she is implying they shouldn't change the voting procedures without getting legal advice. (At least I think that's what she's talking about.) Is that realistic?

swasheck

9:37 PM

@James it's sounding more like disagreement just to disagree. the drunken ramblings of a scorned lover

James

I made those scatterplots of SQL Server I/O sizes, btw.

swasheck

@James do post them

James

@swasheck I'm building a sanitized version (no vendor names :p) now

swasheck

@James i'd like the vendor names ... or at least your methodology

Kermit

is this programming related?

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Q: Install SQL Server 2008 Express on Windows Server 2012 Essentials RC

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sql-server-2008-express

billinkc

9:45 PM

I'd say it's serverfault balliwick

swasheck

@billinkc i'd say it's piss-poor practice

billinkc

Network Service or Local Service account is not permitted for the SQL Server service on a domain contoller. Specify a different account

It's a pity they don't provide clear error messages — billinkc 10 secs ago

James

10:03 PM

@swasheck Here are some of the plots: dropbox.com/sh/m1n8nkca7aepxju/AACG5Wh85kFKc8akuvciJVSZa

Foo is a 3Par all-flash array. Bar is a Compellent all-flash array (6500?). Blah is a NetApp with 2 TB of flashcache.

swasheck

awesome, thanks.

James

The methodology I used was to capture our nightly data warehouse workload and then replay it on a test server with the database restored to a point in time when the workload began.

I captured the I/O durations to all the database files with Process Monitor, then saved the output to a CSV and read and plotted it with R.

Then we repeated this with the same machine, but with the database on different storage.

swasheck

nerd

James

Next week we are supposed to test Pure and EMC xTremIO. Hopefully they look better

Basically we just want a fast JBOD that won't explode. I suspect the DAS you were talking about a while ago is faster.

swasheck

@James how did you go about getting your workload? DRC or a trace?

James

10:09 PM

@swasheck I captured it with a server-side trace using the replay template.

We just replayed this with Profiler since almost everything in the overnight process is sequential. I'm supposed to run some OLTP tests with distributed replay, which I've never used before.

swasheck

@James right. ok. so because the replay is single-threaded everything will go serially

ah

sure

neither have i

also - i tend to stay away from netcrapp ... talk about all-time leaders in overpromise and underdeliver

James

@swasheck Everyone at work seems to hate them. Everything there is on NetApp.

It's also on iSCSI. If you want to make a SAN salesperson grimace or laugh, this seems to be something good to tell them.

swasheck

@James wow. that's. staggering.

James

It's 10 gigabit iSCSI at least.

I'm assuming fiber channel performs much better due to TCP flow control not getting in the way. I've never really looked into it to be honest.

swasheck

@James we have pure and netapp and hitachi vsp in house. prod stuff is on hitachi, dev/qa is netapp. pure is POC but the problem is that we've got everything hooked up to everything so we can't really reconfig at the mezzanine level to work with pure (or any other POC) because we'd jack up the rest of the stuff in the chassis

@James i've been pleased with fiber

James

10:18 PM

@swasheck It kind of sucked at Rackspace, but we were on 4 gbps fiber with no plans to upgrade. Including the data warehouse.

swasheck

@James wanna hear something funny? we have 16gbps infrastructure but the FC cards that we had ... 4gbps. ttttthhhhhpppppptttt.

James

@swasheck Oops. Was that just a planning error?

swasheck

on top of that, my server admin told me that there's no way we'd be saturating the card anyway because he didnt think we were pushing/pulling 4 gigabytes of data per second through the pipes

Paul White

wow

James

@swasheck That's kind of what my SAN admin told me: "the network will never be a bottleneck." Then I showed him I could do 20 gigabits of read I/O from a single server.

swasheck

10:22 PM

@James it's the frickin' wild west here, even though we're a successful company who essentially prints money. i'm actually more impressed that we are as successful as we are, given the amount of dead weight and ignorance that abounds here

@James yeah. so they upgraded us to 8Gbps cards at the mezz and i demonstrated that we were still saturating. now i'm getting my own DAS for the server. :)

i've been here for 1.33333333333333 (bar) years and they're so sick of me illuminating poor decisions

@PaulWhite admittedly, most of the reason we're pulling so much data is because of crappy logical models and even crappier access methods

but that's Cognos' fault

James

Our current DW was built with the 'we don't have any time, so just build a star schema using views' trick. It makes for some rather large and interesting query plans.

swasheck

hey ... @billinkc ... you're probably enjoying your weekend, but @Shog9 is a true whiskey aficionado so maybe you should reach out to him for recommendations

@James we have that too ... with a "factless fact" which is actually a "we're too lazy/dumb to do this the correct way." kimball group came in and did a logical model eval and they raked the dev team over the coals for it

Shog9

@swasheck "whiskey aficionado"... that's the nicest way of calling me a functional alcoholic yet!

swasheck

i do what i can

Shog9

btw, what's up with all this PASS noise today? It's like someone found out the AMA were all chain-smokers.

swasheck

10:36 PM

communication breakdowns from the board. sycophants from both sides jostling for position within the various camps. also - passwords being stored and transmitted in cleartext. y'know ... the usual things

James

@swasheck Why 8 gigabit cards, though? Is someone worried you'll saturate the fiber network with 16 gigabit?

swasheck

@James i have no idea. our server admins make some truly headscratching decisions

ok all ... have yourselves a great weekend (if you're not already)

billinkc

@Shog9 Thoughts on a fine whisky for my father-in-law? chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17873258#17873258 If I weren't at work, I'd go look at labels to try and figure out what canadian brand he enjoys.

Shog9

@billinkc canadian, eh? I am rather fond of Wiser's Very Old

billinkc

caol ila 18 was a fine scotch from what all the people said

Shog9

10:47 PM

If you can find it, it's a damn good wiskey

canadianwhisky.org/reviews/…

smooth as butter, rich as burled oak