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Wonder if indices were refreshed. That has helped a bunch of our queries.
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I could ask the dba.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Reduced a 7.5 hour data pull/import SQL job from 7.5 hours to 20 minutes.
Well, if your sentences are anything to go by, there still may be room for even more efficiency improvements!
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A million years ago when I was an IT guy and DB admin we used a 4GL DB called Progress for our MRP system. I had a custom accounts payable report that ran daily (sometimes 2x a day) that took nearly an hour. I went to the annual user's conference and attended a session held by a Progress guru. I learned a crazy 4GL Progress trick that got the report to run in...
...wait for it...
12 seconds.
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You know it can't be real. It must all be fake, because there are no aliens.
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.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Dang it! You beat me to it!
Moon landing conspiracy theories - Wikipedia[^]
New entry needed.
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<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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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.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Marc, you do have a true talent for understatement...a "little closer"...still chuckling over that one
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After they delivered the take-out, of course.
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Chang'e probe: First pictures from moon’s ‘dark side’[^]
This should have been given more attention by news organisations -- science is far more important than politics, because it never changes, and it really does rule our lives.
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Hah, you beat me to the post, as I was reading the CNET article for a relevant quote before clicking post!
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That's alright Marc. Your post was at the top, so I read yours first.
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.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Marc's posting must be more accurate, too, because it's more up-to-date.
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I guess that probe's really just ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
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Mark_Wallace wrote: science ... because it never changes,
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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What, do you think gravity was different before Newton wrote about it?
Or that the Sun did indeed revolve around the Earth, because people believed it to be so?
So yes, Science Does Not Change.
That I've had to qualify that statement twice, in a forum that is populated by supposedly intelligent people, is somewhat annoying.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: do you think gravity was different before Newton wrote about it? Gravitational constant.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Science Does Not Change. You used 2 examples where science has not changed, that we know of. Here's 2 where it has changed. Global warming and wine being good for you. And, here's a third, eggs being good for you.
How the earth came about.
Man evolving from apes.
And http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/17519/1/SSR%20September%202017%20121-129%20Sosabowski%20%26%20Gard.pdf[^].
So, not sure why you're up so high on your high horse. Maybe you meant something other than what you actually wrote?
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ZurdoDev wrote: Here's 2 where it has changed. Global warming and wine being good for you. And, here's a third, eggs being good for you.
And how exactly did the science change, in those instances?
But let's not go into how little (i.e. absolutely bugger all) phrases like "good for you" have to do with science; just tell me how science changed, concerning global warming -- preferably citing textbooks, to show which laws of Physics changed.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: science change, in those instances? Science said that they were good for you. Then they said they were bad for you. That is what we humans call change.
Mark_Wallace wrote: laws of Physics changed. None. But science did not understand the laws and so science had to change.
If you have a genuine desire to see examples of how it has changed, read the link I provided.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Science People said that they were good for you. Science doesn't GAF whether or not things are "good for" petty little life forms on a pebble on one of the billions of galaxies in the universe.
ZurdoDev wrote: science People did not understand the laws and so science People's knowledge had to change.
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Science is the organized body of knowledge to explain things, it does not exist without people to make theories, etc. Likely you mean the fundamental laws of physics don't change.
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MKJCP wrote: Likely you mean the fundamental laws of physics don't change. Ya, I think that's what he means. Although there's no way to prove that the laws don't change.
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Elsewhere, MKJCP wrote: Look up the definition of science. The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
I don't see your point.
"Systematic study ... through observation and experiment" does not mean "Have a quick shufty, form an opinion, and call it science" (despite its seeming to be the most common method of investigation, if all the click-bait is anything to go by).
Scientific rigour demands that, without definitive proof (achieved through systematic yadda yadda), even correct opinions and theories remain as only opinions and theories.
Don't confuse cack-handed opinions, statistics, and marketing guff about "what is good for you" with science.
MKJCP wrote: Science is the organized body of knowledge to explain things, it does not exist without people to make theories, etc That statement itself shows that theories are not science, but are only a step on the way toward it.
Only after proof do theories become part of the "organised body of knowledge", because only after proof can they be termed "knowledge", rather than "opinion" or "theory".
And proving that some complex foodstuff is "good for you" is pretty much beyond our current capabilities, given the umpty-gazillion chemical interactions that go on daily within the human body, so statements to the effect are not science.
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