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Re: Amex Offers: $100 back on $500+ Spend at St. Regis Hotels

Rob Boek — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 19:04:45 -0000

I got this offer on my Amex Gold.

Re: What Are Points & Miles Worth? February 2018 Monthly Valuations

Rob Boek — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 14:46:37 -0000

You get 2 points per dollar so you get 1.8 cents of value per dollar. The points are still worth .9 cents.

Re: Plex and Sonos: Better Together

Rob Boek — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:45:34 -0000

This is great! One addition I'd love to see is the ability to play just the audio from video files in my plex library.

Re: Deal: Purchase a Moto X (2nd Gen) on AT&T or Verizon at Best Buy for $299 Off-Contract

Rob Boek — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 12:57:42 -0000

Looks like you can get other variations for $299 also. White/bamboo, http://www.bestbuy.com/site... Black leather http://www.bestbuy.com/site... Both are $299

Re: Database Refactoring

Rob Boek — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:31:50 -0000

What exactly do you mean when you say "database refactoring?" Refactoring, according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik..., is making an improvement without changing the way something works. Based on this definition, adding an index, or performance tuning a stored procedure or a sql query are considered refactoring.

I've done numerous database refactoring projects, both large and small, with a very high level of success. The most complicated project radically changed the structure of the database, without changing any of the application code. All while the database was growing by over 2TB/month. Without the refactoring, the database would not have continued to function.

This is not to say that refactoring should be taken lightly. Any changes to a critical production database should be fully understood, and the risks of the project need to be weighed against the benefits.

Re: Contest: Win an Official Galaxy Nexus Car Dock, Already Modded for LTE Version Fun (Update: Winner Picked)

Rob Boek — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:10:55 -0000

I saw the trailer for Dark Knight Rises. It was amazing. I'm expecting the movie to be even better.

Re: Peep

Rob Boek — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:32:03 -0000

It's been a while...

Re: NGGG Tablet Giveaway #4 – Win an Asus Transformer, Jambox and $25 Gift Card from NVIDIA and the Tegra Zone

Rob Boek — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:32:54 -0000

I'm most thankful for money. It let's me eat without growing my own food.

Re: Build 76 – Private Alpha Release

Rob Boek — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:08:05 -0000

Not sure what you changed in this version, but it is completely unusable for me now. Also, why is it staying in the taskbar?

Re: New Decade. New ThinkPads.

Rob Boek — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:03:25 -0000

One of my favorite features on the thinkpad keyboard is the insert/delete/home/end/pgUp/pgDn key block. Neither the Edge or the x100e have this.

I agree, this is a sad day for Thinkpad fans.

Re: Thrive

Rob Boek — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:56:29 -0000

Good to see that you're thriving!

Re: Life

Rob Boek — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:33:07 -0000

Looks like fun!

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

Rob Boek — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:55:16 -0000

Do you know of a way to script this?

Re: Build 67 – Twitter! Twitter! Twitter!

Rob Boek — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:37:49 -0000

This looks promising. I'd love to be able to use the space bar to page through the twitter messages.

Re: Steal This Blog

Rob Boek — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:03:17 -0000

Good article Jason. Hopefully this will help encourage some of the other SQL Server bloggers to switch to full content feeds!

Re: Have you Subscribed to our RSS feed? Tell us to win a free exam!

Rob Boek — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:29:03 -0000

I'm subscribed. I'd love to win. :)

Re: UPDATE Statements and Indexes

Rob Boek — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:59:08 -0000

Dynamic SQL is only one option. As I said in the post, you can create multiple procedures to handle the most frequently updated value combinations.

Re: Latest Email Scam

Rob Boek — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:36:02 -0000

Congratulations!

Re: AAPWYGOA

Rob Boek — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:23:02 -0000

Intel was horrible with acronyms. Everyone uses them constantly and a lot of people only know the acronym. If you actually used the words they wouldn't know what you are talking about.

My favorite was NGIP which stood for "Next Generation Information Platform", but was referred to lovingly within the group as "Not Going Into Production".

Re: NULL Counter-post

Rob Boek — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:42:54 -0000

How can you even begin to compare NULL with Paris Hilton? Besides the fact that "IF 'Paris Hilton' = NULL" will always return false, what is her purpose exactly?

Re: Vegas

Rob Boek — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:32:16 -0000

I bet they would love to put machines in the bathrooms, but putting cameras in the stalls to monitor them would likely be frowned upon.

Re: SSIS Resources

Rob Boek — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:30:18 -0000

Doug,

Thanks for the link. I updated the post. Definitely check out the Oregon SQL Dev group if you get a chance. Let me know if you are going to attend.

Re: FizzBuzz in T-SQL

Rob Boek — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:38:08 -0000

That would be because the default MAXRECURSION is 100. If you want to go above that, add OPTION(MAXRECURSION 102) after the ORDER BY clause. You can use 0 for unlimited, but be careful.

Re: Deciding Who to Follow on Twitter

Rob Boek — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:49:50 -0000

Good post. I hadn't really thought about it, but I use a very similar thought process when deciding who to follow.

Re: Switched Hosting Companies

Rob Boek — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:51:39 -0000

Are you on a unix or windows hosting plan at GoDaddy? I was on a windows (IIS7) plan, and the problem I was having is that I couldn't get Url Rewriting to work correctly on secondary sites. It worked fine on the primary site in the root but they are using some sort of rewriting for the secondary sites that was conflicting with what I was trying to do. The other problem I had was that every settings change took hours.

The code box I'm using is wp-syntax. I tried several and the one worked the best.