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Comment on Making date and time sense from the SQL Server Agent job history table by Gail

Gail — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:16:15 +0000

It’s been like this for many versions, but that’s no excuse. There are far better ways to express times, even using a string, than it’s using. The duration is stored in the same way. Have fun working out how long a job ran for…

Frankly, MSDB is a wonderful example of a terribly designed database. Don’t even get me started on sysjobschedules.

I had three UDFs that I used to use to turn the data into something actually usable.

Comment on Photos from the Johannesburg 27dinner by Wenchy

Wenchy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:07:38 +0000

The pic of Vincent is so awesome!

Comment on Making date and time sense from the SQL Server Agent job history table by Craig Nicholson

Craig Nicholson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:37:36 +0000

Well I suppose its a legacy design issue from the days of Sybase or something like that. Perhaps they never had a DATETIME data type then the next best would be two 32-bit integers. I would have thought though that they would have put a new table down and created a view for backwards compatibility or something. They seem to have done it for other tables.

Comment on Making date and time sense from the SQL Server Agent job history table by Brady Kelly

Brady Kelly — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:35:04 +0000

What were they thinking? The mind boggles. This is even worse than storing the date and time as strings, as it’s one conversion further from the truth.

Comment on Comztek is the new Xbox distributor for SA by Neal

Neal — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:52:42 +0000

Pity Powercare are still the service agency as their service is terrible… more like lack of service delivery on that one

Comment on Xbox 360 Elite price drop in South Africa by Tim Carlisle

Tim Carlisle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:32:33 +0000

Alec, as an ex-pat now living in the UK, probably the best selling point of the Xbox 360 is their online play. So it is a bit of a travesty, that South Africa are yet to experience this. However I do believe there is an online petition. Back to the article, and the Elite price-drop seems to be a global strategy, not just specific to SA. In the UK there are now Cheap Xbox 360 Premium Consoles too, but I think the case in SA might be to build up the potential for Xbox Live users by supplying the console at a continual lower price.

Comment on TWiT-or-tweet by Luke

Luke — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:23:54 +0000

Steven, you can be a christian and still celebrate halloween. Im sorry but if you think of halloween as anything more than a time for children to dress as their favorite character and go to houses getting some free candy, than you just need to calm the hell down. Who are you to say what a christian should and shouldent do anyway. It’s okay to celebrate it as long as your not being satanic. God has nothing against it. If he does you show me the Bible verse.

Comment on SQL Server 2008 and .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 dependency explained by David Lundell

David Lundell — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:53:55 +0000

I noticed the same issue that Greg noticed. I have windows server 2008 x64 running on HyperV and when I went to install SQL 2008 SP 1 I got the error message about .NET 2.0 SP 2, even though I had 3.5 SP 1 installed. When I looked in the registry it list 2.0 SP 1 and 3.0 SP 1 and 3.5 SP 1. Still working with SQL Core support on this.

Comment on Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel to be released in June by IOIIOOIO

IOIIOOIO — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:48:52 +0000

Hey guys the Xbox racing wheel should be avialable soon (26 Oct) on Take 2 at a fairly reasonable price: R1 346. (Guess they must be selling at a loss then… rofl.)

http://www.take2.co.za/games-xbox-360-wireless-racing-wheel-games-accessory-2358147.html