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You guys are so attached to SQL Server you're anthropomorphising the machinery behind it. It's not here to help you; go smoke some Cassandra and relax

Paul White

@mustaccio you might need another prune juice cocktail

mustaccio

I know. Stores open at 2022-09-27T11:00:00Z

Paul White

Good idea to smoke Cassandra though. Will look into it

Erik Darling

@mustaccio it’s my only source of income so yeah

I’d prefer if I could drink Cassandra though

@JoshDarnell very east berlin

mustaccio

Apparently Cassandra is open source (maybe even FLOSS\), you could liquibase it if you really wanted to

I need like three takes to get my English grammar right, and it's still left-leaning in the end

I wish I could czech it earlier

Erik Darling

1:24 AM

@mustaccio seems fine to me. But I can’t read so.

Paul White

Forward slashing as a service

mustaccio

Thank you Paul but I did mean it at the end so

Sprinkle punctuation marks at will

Clearly conflicts with author's intent, that's what it says

however unclear the said intent was

Paul White

What you talkin bout

mustaccio

Exactly\\

You mods

Paul White

😀😀😀

4 mins ago, by mustaccio

Sprinkle punctuation marks at will

mustaccio

1:33 AM

¿¡these are NOT punctuation marks?!

Paul White

🤓

mustaccio

Josh Darnell

@PaulWhite I really expected the one like on that Tweet to be from Dr. No.

Erik Darling

@JoshDarnell three

Paul White

No one wanted to go first

Where can I learn what skilling means? Is it in the documentation?

@JoshDarnell he's using twitter via the sales force API. It'll appear in two or three weeks. Maybe

Erik Darling

1:58 AM

@mustaccio up the mods

Josh Darnell

2:13 AM

@ErikDarling weird, I only see one.

@PaulWhite 😂

Erik Darling

2:33 AM

@JoshDarnell jeez, people must really hate you

Paul White

2:49 AM

Unusual among Nickleback fans

Josh Darnell

3:26 AM

@ErikDarling my feelings!

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Zikato

6:13 AM

Morning

Paul White

6:36 AM

morning

ypercubeᵀᴹ

6:48 AM

@JoshDarnell it took me some time to digest the double negative

> There are no broken links caused by this cosmetic change that literally doesn’t affect anyone.

That looks equivalent to: There may be broken links that literally affect some or all people.

unless they use "literally" as a negative so it becomes a triple negative

Paul White

It's borderline incoherent

"There aren't any broken links...doesn't affect no one" would be worse I guess?

Putting the idiot in idiomatic perhaps

ypercubeᵀᴹ

it's twitter so borderline incoherent is the norm, isn't it? ;)

Paul White

indeed, but there are degrees

"no broken links ... literally doesn’t affect anyone" < this bugs me

makes my brain hurt

anyway

Vérace

A chairde - Morning all!

Zikato

7:09 AM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ Apply De Morgan's laws

Zikato

7:30 AM

So what were the names of documentation throughout the years?
I've heard Books Online, Docs and now Learn. Did I miss something?

Paul White

MSDN/TechNet Library?

Zikato

Where does it belong chronologically?

Paul White

Between BOL and Docs

I was never very sure why there were two versions of online documentation - MSDN and TechNet

Microsoft Developer Network

Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) was the division of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), and software developers developing on the various OS platforms or using the API or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications. The relationship management is situated in assorted media: web sites, newsletters, developer conferences, trade media, blogs and DVD distribution.Starting in January 2020, the website is fully integrated with Microsoft Docs. == Websites == MSDN's primary web...

Zikato

Microsoft TechNet

Microsoft TechNet was a Microsoft web portal and web service for IT professionals. It included a library containing documentation and technical resources for Microsoft products, a learning center which provides online training, discussion forums, an evaluation center for downloading trialware, blogs for Microsoft employees and a wiki. TechNet originally provided a software subscription service similar to Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud that allowed subscribers to download Microsoft software under a software as service license for private use. On July 1, 2013, it was announced that Microsoft...

> As of January 2020, TechNet now redirects to Microsoft Docs.[2]

heh

Paul White

> Now most of MSDN Library pages redirect to the corresponding Microsoft Docs pages.[citation needed]

🔪🔪🔪

Zikato

7:46 AM

Would this be accurate then?

Paul White

ha ha ha yeah

Zikato

Thank you

Paul White

I hope you'll be tagging @docsmsft in that

Zikato

I wasn't going to… initially

Paul White

yeah probably best

Zikato

7:52 AM

I'll probably play it safe until I get my first MVP award

ypercubeᵀᴹ

8:40 AM

OFFSET 1234567 without ORDER BY, sigh

Zikato

Paul White

I wouldn't mind so much if the author could be bothered to use the right maximum value. Entering 1234567 is just sloppy.

Ah there we are dba.stackexchange.com/q/317436

John K. N.

9:00 AM

morning

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Zikato

11:18 AM

Bank holiday tomorrow here

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Josh Darnell

2:40 PM

@Zikato Haha amazing

Zikato

3:06 PM

Thank you. And thanks for the reply on the SQL connection, I wasn't sure if it makes a difference

Josh Darnell

@Zikato No problem!

I habitually write using statements like that, and shortly after I posted that code I wondered if someone would mention it haha.

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Zikato

5:11 PM

Anyone got recommendations for a remote troubleshooting SW? I want be able to remote to my parent's PC in case they need some help

Erik Darling

teamviewer is pretty easy

Zikato

I'll give it a go, thank you

Erik Darling

5:44 PM

yep, no problem. i don't have any passionate feelings about it, though. just seems to work for what i do. there may be something better out there, but i don't have the energy to find it.

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Josh Darnell

7:34 PM

> Multiple columns are specified in an aggregated expression containing an outer reference. If an expression being aggregated contains an outer reference, then that outer reference must be the only column referenced in the expression.

Man. That's annoying.