Comments on: Search Meter Surprises http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/10/search-meter-surprises/ Data Warehousing, Microsoft Business Intelligence, and Other Cool Stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:33:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Griffith http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/10/search-meter-surprises/comment-page-1/#comment-5315 Jason Griffith Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:06:10 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=2214#comment-5315 I don't know that there's anything in particular I'd like to see you cover as I find more and more that I'm removed from the daily dealings of M2M. I have to deal with it maybe...once a month? The only dealings I really have with it at all these days is building queries and designing reports, and most of those are actually handled through SQL rather than M2M. That being the case, reporting is really the only thing that would be relevant to what I deal with on a personal level, but overall I'll be only loosely connected with M2M until the .NET version is released. I don’t know that there’s anything in particular I’d like to see you cover as I find more and more that I’m removed from the daily dealings of M2M. I have to deal with it maybe…once a month? The only dealings I really have with it at all these days is building queries and designing reports, and most of those are actually handled through SQL rather than M2M.

That being the case, reporting is really the only thing that would be relevant to what I deal with on a personal level, but overall I’ll be only loosely connected with M2M until the .NET version is released.

]]> By: Brent Ozar http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/10/search-meter-surprises/comment-page-1/#comment-5314 Brent Ozar Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:38:52 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=2214#comment-5314 Hahaha, my family does this too - they log in and search my blog for their own names now and then. I get a chuckle out of that. Hahaha, my family does this too – they log in and search my blog for their own names now and then. I get a chuckle out of that.

]]> By: Fred Crawford http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/10/search-meter-surprises/comment-page-1/#comment-5312 Fred Crawford Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:24:36 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=2214#comment-5312 Things we dislike. I dislike it when people send me most of their emails as "high importance". I treat ALL emails from customers, business associates, etc., as "high importance". I have some customers that send EVERY email as "high importance". After a while, I almost start treating their emails as "low importance", because I am so sick of getting every email from them as "high importance". If I didn't response to everyone in a very timely manner, I could see flagging the emails. Another thing, what ever happened to some sort of business etiquette in regard to emails. A customer or someone asks for your help or input. You spend hours working on the project to get them some sort of solution or answer to their question. You then type up a very detailed email documenting the solution and send it off, never to hear anything back from them again. After a few days or a week, you think "did they get my email", "will the solution solve their problem", etc. So then you end up calling them to verify that they did indeed receive your email. All the other party had to do was email back a response of "got it", "thanks for your help", "this won't work", they could swear at me, I don't care, just let me know that you received my email. There you have it, my "Friday morning" rants. Fred Things we dislike. I dislike it when people send me most of their emails as “high importance”. I treat ALL emails from customers, business associates, etc., as “high importance”. I have some customers that send EVERY email as “high importance”. After a while, I almost start treating their emails as “low importance”, because I am so sick of getting every email from them as “high importance”. If I didn’t response to everyone in a very timely manner, I could see flagging the emails. Another thing, what ever happened to some sort of business etiquette in regard to emails. A customer or someone asks for your help or input. You spend hours working on the project to get them some sort of solution or answer to their question. You then type up a very detailed email documenting the solution and send it off, never to hear anything back from them again. After a few days or a week, you think “did they get my email”, “will the solution solve their problem”, etc. So then you end up calling them to verify that they did indeed receive your email. All the other party had to do was email back a response of “got it”, “thanks for your help”, “this won’t work”, they could swear at me, I don’t care, just let me know that you received my email. There you have it, my “Friday morning” rants.

Fred

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