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6:02 PM
Its long past the limitation period by now
 
If Wikileaks has shown anything, it's that relying on bugs is a much smaller vulnerability vector than actually being able to bribe corporations to create them.
Microsoft permitting governments direct access to your data via NSA since 2007!
 
which companies don't do that?
 
Debian.bsd. oh wait they did
 
am i being cray cray or re re?
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A: TEXT data migrate from Sybase to SQL Server

KinYour best bet is to change the default datatype mapping in SSMA to TEXT for sqlserver since the default mapping for text is nvarchar. Make sure to save the settings... Choose Tools, Project Settings, Type Mapping from the menu. See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ssma/2011/03/06/access-to-sql-...

 
6:17 PM
well he can't change the data type
he should just encode unicode in the TEXT column
 
but how is doing the same thing that's already happening going to fix it?
 
I'm sure it'll be no problem
 
anyway
 
he made an edit
 
6:18 PM
looks like a typo
 
i don't care anymore (joy division voice)
 
he asked us to listen carefully
but started shouting anyway
 
6:32 PM
Town Hall Chat. Today’s topic: Shog Has Opinions On Vote Fraud

 Tavern on the Meta

MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS AND BACKLOG! General friendly chit-...
 
don't tell him about this room
that's exactly what I said not to do!
 
i think what you meant to say is that dba.se has a well-known group of people who provide high quality answers and are famous for their foot long subs of knowledge
 
looks like I'm going to ride a train at "125% of capacity"
sounds like a bad time
 
@sp_BlitzErik there goes your chance of getting to 10k
 
@Lamak b&
@JoeObbish surf it
 
6:43 PM
who says they'll be room to do that?
also fares increase in price 4 days before I'll use it
booo
@sp_BlitzErik how old are you again?
 
the guy who is waving is my favorite
what happens if there's a train accident?
 
choo choo funeral
 
@JoeObbish With the speed they're going, it's going to be a bump and a lot of sorries.
 
what they don't show you is the people pushing at the back
0 lakhs/hour
 
7:01 PM
well...me and my mouth
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 4 mins ago, by Shog9
(note to self: investigate the heck out of Lamak)
 
when the rev comes, joe is going to redistribute your ill-gotten points
 
@sp_BlitzErik but they are not my points, I vote for other people
 
you can tell that he's guilty because his avatar changes to grey
it's a disguise
 
"just your average chilean, not at all a q&a sweatshop inside a hidden drug den"
 
@sp_BlitzErik that's why we need people like you coming to some precons
@JoeObbish that actually makes sense
 
7:08 PM
@JoeObbish Seriously though, I've just read that there are on average 25K deaths per year by train accidents in India.
> The figures, which were obtained for The Times using India's Right to Information Act, show that most deaths were people being run over while trespassing on the tracks. The next biggest cause of death - equivalent to more than three every working day - was of passengers who fell (or were pushed) from carriages that travel at 64km/h, have no doors and are often dangerously full.
>
> Another 41 people perished after being bludgeoned by trackside poles while hanging out of overcrowded trains. Twenty-one were electrocuted by power cables when they sat on the roof.
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ someone posted a gif of a guy playing chicken with a train, moving to the side in time to be safe and then being bludgeoned in the head by a pole on the side of the train....quite unexpected for me, seemed impossible to survive that
 
Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable[B1]:19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining twelve years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound (for a time at least) that friends saw him as "no longer Gage." [H]:14 Long known as the "American Crowbar Case"‍—‌once termed "the case which more than all others is cal­cu­lated to excite our wonder,...
 
seems unlikely too
 
are you saying it seems like
ahem
fake news
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Developer Edition is just as free as Postgres :) — sp_BlitzErik 17 mins ago
@sp_BlitzErik that's more like bs but I don't want to reply in that thread ;)
 
7:23 PM
@ypercubeᵀᴹ how so?
 
@sp_BlitzErik I mean, you said it, isn't that kind of enough?
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@Lamak not until you upvote it
 
@sp_BlitzErik It can be used in production. You can read the source code and modify/recompile if one is brave enough.
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ for evan's testing purposes there is no difference
 
Ah yes, for testing I agree.
 
7:26 PM
@sp_BlitzErik you have a point
 
NICE TAN @MaxVernon
 
lol, thanks Erik!
 
welcome back to the illegal voting ring
you have some catching up to do
 
yes apparently I do.
I guess I'll need to lookup the illegal voting ring stuff.
 
7:41 PM
@MaxVernon I mean, weren't you the boss of it?
 
playing keyser soze all of a sudden
way to go max
 
@Lamak :-)
so did anything actually interesting happen over the past two weeks?
I see nothing is "pinned" at the current time
 
@MaxVernon you and I weren't here , soooo
 
@Lamak :-)
 
@MaxVernon they fall off nowadays instead of always staying around, or maybe they always fell off
idk
 
7:55 PM
@jcolebrand sounds painfull
 
8:32 PM
survey: if you receive an email with a word document from O-level management, do you trust it and open it?
 
seems like a good thing to fwd to security
 
I thought that you have like 100 VMs
just use your suspicious email VM
 
am i headed for a second reversal badge?
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Q: Does SQL Sever support GREATEST and LEAST, if not what is the common workaround?

Evan CarrollReviewing this question it seems like that's a lot of work that shouldn't be needed. They're trying to extend a range with a date. In other databases, you would just use greatest and least.. least(extendDate,min), greatest(extendDate,max) That would cover extension in either direction. For the...

i unironically upvoted that question, too
 
8:49 PM
huh, that's actually a decent trolling question
 
right?
 
@sp_BlitzErik do you really hope it helps?
 
@Lamak always
 
@JoeObbish what about this one?
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Q: Can I disable SQL Server spyware in SQL Server 2017?

Evan CarrollMy SQL Server evaluation copy, v.Next, has the following text (/usr/share/doc/mssql-server/LICENSE.TXT.gz) Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) This software uses CEIP. CEIP automatically sends Microsoft information about your hardware and how you use this software. We do not use ...

 
I had code break the other day in production. Forgot to renew my 699 USD license fee for GREATEST and LEAST.
 
8:51 PM
@Lamak that might violate the NAP
 
@Lamak no, too obvious
 
@JoeObbish true
 
9:27 PM
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Q: What's the best way to intermingle code within lists?

John EisbrenerNothing critical about this question, but let's say I have a query... select * from table where formatting = 'well-nigh'; NOTE: I'm including some screenshots from dba.se.com as I don't think dba.meta.se.com sets color within code blocks, by default. <screenshot with proper coloring taken fro...

 
i don't know why i expected that question to be on the wrong site at first
 
9:49 PM
Does SQL Server support GREATEST and LEAST? Well, I'm but a humble developer, least of them all, I might add. And there are people like Paul White, for instance, whom I personally consider one of the greatest experts in the field. And what do you think? SQL Server supports both of us.
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y'all so biblical
 
10:26 PM
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A: Relational v Hierarchical data models

AntCIt's not quite right to say "established databases of the time used the hierarchical model". Firstly (to nit-pick), it's database management systems that do/don't use some physical structure. "databases" -- that is database designs might use all sorts of abstractions. Entity-Relational modelling...

 
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