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xkcd: Boat Puzzle[^]
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I jump in the boat and row across alone.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'd take the girl. And maybe the goat.
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I mean, come on man, how hard could it be?! 
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I have a boat which eats anything which comes into it.
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I had that before. In the beginning Mr. Scope Creep was more than happy to get 15000 more complex records in a download every day, as long as he really got them. Then 30000, better 50000. 100000 would be nice. Actually, some of our users may sometimes need 200000. In the end, when everything was online, we were at 2.5 millions. Twice, for different divisions of the company.
But I had seen that coming from the beginning and had built the program that prepared these downloads so that it would get only one record at a time and serialize it before moving on to the next. This way the number of records were irrelevant. It would just take a little longer than trying to get everything at once and have the server's memory hop out of its sockets somewhere between 10000 and 15000 records.
But of course it always was extremely hard to raise the bar once again (change a configuration variable) and squeeze the time and money for really important things out of Mr. Scope Creep. He even got a cool web page where every user could see how far the requested downloads were prepared and an estimate when they were going to be ready.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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C: I want all of our students (about 87000) on the screen when I open the app!
M: And what would you do with that list?
C: ... search for one ...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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This reminds me of a client program I wrote which would download specific views from a database onto a laptop so the worker could take it with him. These views contained all the necessary details for work orders, and everything the worker would need to fill out while working on the given task, and eventually completing it. One of the records had a freeform text field limited at ~1000 characters. It didn't take long for some to complain this wouldn't be enough, so we made it unlimited.
Then they started to copy and past entire word documents into that field (yes, that did work too!). And wondered why transfering their data took so long on a 1000 bit/s connection (that was >20 years ago...) 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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I had a boat, was very happy when I sold it. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I have formed this tiger team...
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lol, I hate when that happen.
I deleted the SVN master repository once; luckily they had a back.
I'd rather be phishing!
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If you need something stronger than coffee in the morning, delete a production database instead 
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Wow. I have never dropped a production database before, but I did manage to accidentally delete a month's worth of credit card transactions from a production database before. Luckily after restoring from backup, we only had a days worth to reenter. The problem was that the company received several thousand transactions per day. That was a nightmare.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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How did you even know what to reenter? 
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It was a company that sold merchandise similar to what Etsy sells. We had the original orders along with the CC information, but the actual transaction itself, such as sub totals, taxes, and final totals were missing. We had to put the order page on hold and got a team together to hand calculate the missing values and reenter the transaction records. I was lucky that I didn't lose my job that day. That was back in 2006 and I still get embarrassed when I think about it.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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This time the "never touch a running system" has proven its wisdom
I hope you get somehow a workaround.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I guess this is my punishment for mixing private accounts with business accounts.
To be fair, I didn't have business accounts when I started out, just the email address.
So now I wanted to move my business email address to my business Azure tenant.
Thinking I really didn't use it on my private tenant was, apparently, naive 
What I find especially weird, is that the customer account has absolutely nothing to do with my private account, yet they are somehow linked because I'm a guest in their Azure AD and my account HAS to come from my private tenant.
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Oops!
Like when you run a SQL statement without the where clause.
Or when you are on a RDP connection and want to refresh the NW connection and type ipconfig /release and then realize you've cut yourself off without a way to issue the /renew command.
I've locked myself out of one of our systems before. Running command via SQL was enabled so I was able to use that to run some commands remotely and log in again.
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Jacquers wrote: Like when you run a SQL statement without the where clause.
Been there, done that
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Jacquers wrote: Or when you are on a RDP connection and want to refresh the NW connection and type ipconfig /release and then realize you've cut yourself off without a way to issue the /renew command.
Bat file to the rescue
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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This sentence contains exactly threeee erors.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Better don't ask me. Everything I write here is a lie.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The cake is lie 
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Do you happen to be from Crete?
(I ask because some people say that behind every paradox lies a Cretan.)
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