Re: Qualified vs Unqualified calls (Was: Database server jobs andSQL tuning)

Dan,

"Bale, Dan" wrote:

> Folks, no doubt we have a lot of committed (take that any way you want)
> members on this list.  But, for my money, certainly John Earl must be in the
> top tier.

Thanks for the compliment(????)

I'd love to tell you that a superhuman need for blunt technical accuracy drove
this excercise, but in fact it was a combination of pain, insomnia, and boredom.
I'm recuperating from surgery (very well, thank you!) and, heck what else can I
guy do for fun in the middle of the night... quietly... at home... and while
basically immobile?

BTW, If there are any inaccuracies in last night's post, I blame them all on my
22 month old daughter who got up to "party" between 11:30pm and 1:30am.  She is
just sure that she is an excellent typist, and is always looking for the
opportunity to prove it  :~)

jte


>
>
>         >> I guess the only way to tell for sure is to run a test....
>         >> <Several hours later>
>         >> OK, I'm done.
>
> Rest assured, you can be fairly certain that John was not kidding here.
>
> Making some assumptions here, based on the "sent" timestamp that appears on
> his post, Monday 4:17 AM, John appears to have spent most of Sunday creating
> and running tests.  It would appear that, after attending church in the
> morning and returning home after brunch, John immediatly went to work,
> developing the test "suite", running it on a dedicated AS/400 (to ensure
> consistent results, of course).  His first set of tests took less than 30
> minutes to run, from 13:52 to 14:13, but then spent the next __eight__ hours
> interpreting those results.  Whether he sacrificed dinner for this
> endeavour, only John can say.  He fired up his tests again at 22:23, and
> those tests completed over an hour later, at 23:36.

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John Earl                               johnearl@400security.com
The PowerTech Group                     206-575-0711
PowerLock Network Security              www.400security.com
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