#performance considerations

[thedbahub]

Understanding the Difference Between nVARCHAR and VARCHAR

Introduction Hey there, fellow SQL Server enthusiasts! Today, we’re diving into the world of character data types, specifically nVARCHAR and VARCHAR. As someone who’s worked with SQL Server for years, I’ve come to appreciate the importance of understanding these data types and how they can impact your database design and performance. In this article, we’ll explore the key differences between…

[sergle]

texas is hell oh god

[rosalyn51]

Netflix is submitting Dept. Q for FOR YOUR EMMY® CONSIDERATION in the categories including

*OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

*OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

MATTHEW GOODE

[hotvintagepoll]

Hi! Quick question - when submitting propaganda, are we only submitting things from the movies in which are scrunglies are…y’know, scrungly? Like take Claude Rains for example, is he only restricted to gifs of him looking like a homeless dude in Moontide(1942) or can we submit like polished headshots or whatnot? Just thought I’d ask beforehand! I’m so stoked for this poll!!

The polls are about scrungliness, not hotness, so please submit propaganda that you feel conveys scrungliness. Generic hot photos won't be boosted because this is not a hot tournament.

With that said, please be considerate of how you're framing scrungliness. I'm going to post more about this tomorrow but some propaganda submissions had a troubling habit of conflating difference with scrungliness, and it really bothers me. Like in this ask—be careful about how you're throwing the word "homeless" in like it's shorthand for weird, ok? Being homeless is just...being homeless. It doesn't make you weird or strange and it shouldn't be used that way. The casual tone some of the submitted propaganda had toward class/race/disability has really bothered me and I'll post a longer discussion of this before the tournament starts.

[earthmixsclowderofcats]

DMD boys can't be normal around their crushes, they have to be like "we should get married" after knowing them for two weeks.

[see-arcane]

This part focuses on Quincey in particular instead of everyone, "Quincey raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her intently", and I wonder if it connects with what he had said before: "And I promise you, too, that I shall make all certain, for if I am only doubtful I shall take it that the time has come!" Because Quincey is the one who always clocks on the situation at hand first, and patrols for threats (and if he spots one he shoots first asks questions later)

He does clock things very fast and takes action just as quickly. When he's facing the right way.

But in this scene, our favorite Texan isn't looking the right way or even reacting safely as much as he is quick about it. Even if his reaction was entirely innocent surprise, the fact that he made clear how ready he was to serve Mina's euthanasia request--seemingly with more readiness than even Dr. Jack Malpractice who must 'steel' himself to the idea--has absolutely stuck in Jonathan's mind.

Hence Jonathan death gripping the kukri as Quincey gets (to his eyes) the wrong kind of interested.

The whole story could have gone very nasty very fast if Mr. 'You've yeed your last haw' Morris had made a wrong move at that moment.

[gyokutoll]

I love insulting hotaru and making fun of him but I’m also like OUGHH MY SHAYLA when I think about how he wakes up early to take photos and how he babysits his best friend’s daughter and that she adores him and that he’s good with kids and will stop what he’s doing to pet a stray cat. He’s such a horrible nasty little goblin creature he’s such a cynical unpleasant bastard but the moment he isn’t being observed he is so. He is so indescribably painfully raw and lovely. I don’t capture the immensity of his resilience well and that’s my own shortcomings as a writer but Hotaru is someone so genuinely alive and an open beating heart of a person. It’s like as soon as he’s not observed he’s incredibly kind. He’s the reverse of people who pretend to be nice but are really shitty. He pretends to be shitty but isn’t even nice. Is just kind. Sadao when I get you. Sadao when I get you for traumatizing this lad.

[droughtofapathy]

To say she's a Diva in the most literal terms is an understatement, but in this case, this seems like the most innocuous thing Patti LuPone has said all week.

[im-an-anthusiast]

On My Knees

Look down on me, oh, don’t be shy!

Both of us know exactly why!

Put me down – or allow ME to!

In my rightful place! Below you!

You don’t ask, but I deliver!

From now to always, forever!

Like it or not, I’m on my knees!

Just for you! So, love me more, please

Lower on my knees, verse by verse

Is it for better, or for worse?

Is it by my hand, or by yours?

That I’m grovelling, on all fours?

Do you love me, or what I do?

You adore me! Is that not true?

You love more than just servitude!

Right? Is that not right to conclude?

Can you not see, my bloody knees?

Do you not care, for begs and pleas?

Apathy? Hatred? Ignorance?

What blinds you to my performance?

Closer to the ground, with each verse

Is it for better, or for worse?

Is it by my hand, or by yours?

That I can’t help, but be all yours?

All your wants and needs become mine

With my own, I would surely whine!

And we don’t want that, do we now?

Of course not. So let me just bow!

On my knees – begging for a treat!

Look at me – or let our eyes meet

Some attention – is all I need!

Look at me – do I need to plead?

Just for you, I write every verse

Is it for better, or for worse?

Is it by my hand, or by yours?

That somehow, this farce still endures?

[magicalemma]

emma when she sees a character who is forced or pressured into a role: 🩵🩷🤍?

[dr-lizortecho]

love the implication that the podsquad just stumbled upon the fact acetone numbs their pain and then by the age of twenty-six they were all morphine addicts

[rosalyn51]

From TVLine

Emmys Twist: Dept. Q Enters Drama Series Race at 11th Hour, Potentially Upending 2025 Contest (Exclusive)

Michael Ausiello

June 6, 2025

Did Netflix just throw a grenade into the Emmy race for the second year in a row

TVLine has learned exclusively that Dept. Q, the Matthew GoodE-fronted Scottish thriller that dropped May 29, just two days shy of the eligibility cutoff for this year’s Emmys, is being submitted in the Drama Series categories. The acclaimed nine-episode mystery from Queen’s Gambit auteur Scott Frank enters a crowded field that includes Severance, The Pitt, Andor, The White Lotus, The Last of Us and Netflix’s own The Diplomat.

If all of this sounds vaguely familiar it’s because just one year ago Netflix similarly sent Emmy handicappers heads’ spinning with the late-April release of Baby Reindeer. Richard Gadd’s searing, semi-autobiographical dramedy — which appeared on the kudos scene a scant one month before the close of eligibility — went on to essentially sweep Limited Series categories at last September’s Emmys.

It remains to be seen if a similar fate awaits Dept. Q, which earlier this week hit No. 2 on Netflix’s consumer-facing Top 10 chart and boasts an impressive 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes (its critical score stands at a strong 84%).

Dept. Q, based on the book series by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, centers on a cranky Edinburgh detective (played by Good Wife alum GoodE) who sets out solve a cold case involving a missing prosecutor (played by Queen’s Gambit alum Chloe Pirrie).

In addition to possibly playing spoiler in the Outstanding Drama Series contest, Dept. Q is poised to be a contender in the acting races as well. A Netflix rep confirms to TVLine that GoodE and Pirrie will be competing in the Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Lead Actress in a Drama Series categories, respectively. The show’s supporting cast — which includes Boardwalk Empire vet Kelly Macdonald and Game of Thrones’ Kate Dickie — is equally as formidable.

Matthew was nominated for an Emmy in Outstanding Guest Actor in 2018 for his portrayal of Tony Armstrong-Jones in The Crown season 2. 🙌🏼🙌🏼

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[sunbratz]

the critics choice noms......

[digimonirl]

How does one properly cook a tarantula??? I'm sorry that just snatched my attention SO fast I'm very curious.

Okay so glad you asked, more people need to know this. The problem with eating tarantulas is that the hairs are still effective even after death, so you basically put them directly over fresh embers or an open flame and burn them all off. I would do that for about two to three minutes, rotating a few times so you cook it evenly. After that, enjoy! Make sure to use some kind of condiment though, preferably a spicy dipping sauce in my experience.

[narwhalandchill]

the fact that of the high cloud quintet jing yuan is literally the only one that walked out the shitstorm that was their downfall in-lore impressively drama-free and with his professional and personal reputation intact is very funny to me when juxtaposed with the current state of what one could maybe very charitably call... volatile discussions relating to his kit in the more "meta" circles (in quotations bc the credibility of ppl spewing this stuff as fact is. Well)

since his release this man hasnt escaped the doomposting and being powercrept allegations and solo calcs taken out of context by random people and content creators flaming it further getting from the usual mid allegations straight up to a reputation of being spoken of in a manner youd think hes literally unplayable so fast its like hes literally rent free in these peoples heads 💀 physically cant keep his name out of their mouths and i guarantee 99% of these ppl never even considered pulling him

like i dont even have jing yuan and ik hes perfectly fine lmao. he has some issues with LC options and certain scenarios can hurt his performance more than most characters (+ lack of content favoring true AoE in general) which can feel bad to play but ppl are being absolutely ridiculous about him its hilarious