Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 1

Jan Van der Eecken (5/8/2010)
Lynn Pettis (5/7/2010)
I see a trip to the TitD in the near future.
C'mon Lynn, you can't expect the OP to give you both a business plan and a proper test pack, now can you 😀

But I want my cake, and eat too! 😉

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 2

Heh... poor guy... he's fighting not one but two language barriers (Oracle and French). Although even Oracle works better when using set based code (when set based code is possible in Oracle), the paradigm shift from PL/SQL to set based T-SQL is a terrible thing for folks to go through. I liken it to passing a kidney stone... they just don't know what's happening and it's a terrible pain because SQL is NOT SQL.

Hopefully, it never will be either. 😛

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 3

Lynn Pettis (5/6/2010)
Never know, I may actually find myself on the dark side in the future (goverment contracts tend to use Oracle a lot, ...

Heh... I've done both and I'm here to tell you that two wrongs, in fact, don't make a right. 😛

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 4

Grant Fritchey (5/6/2010)
Steve Jones - Editor (5/6/2010)
Top Ten Posters in this thread (out of 15,100 or so)
Lynn Pettis 1533
CirquedeSQLeil 1229
GilaMonster 1066
Alvin Ramard 1042
Grant Fritchey 939
Jeff Moden 699
Steve Jones - Editor 689
GSquared 646
RBarryYoung 577
Roy Ernest 556
WhOOP!
Beat Jeff!

Heh... pretty badly too... 3.4% of my posts are on the thread. I can't believe I've spent that much time at the water cooler. That doesn't include any time I've spent lurking here.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 5

tosscrosby (5/5/2010)
Hey, we all work for the same company!

Man, I wish other folks would finally get THAT message. You anywhere near Detroit or Ann Arbor or Grand Rapids, Michigan? I might know a couple of folks that could use some help.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 6

Trey Staker (5/4/2010)
Steve Jones - Editor (5/4/2010)
Paul White NZ (5/4/2010)
Awesome - a KB article on how to post questions to an online forum:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
That's great. If only there were some way to get people to actually read it.
How about when someone signs up sending some helpful links with the greeting email? Maybe like a top 10 best of SSC links or top 10 SSC suggested reading links.

You know... that's not a bad idea. At least it's one more exposure that they might not ignore.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 7

Tom Brown (5/7/2010)
Gotta tell you this
I heard some schoolkids singing on their way home
"Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown"
"He's dead but he won't lie down"
Hilarious! - who said the youth don't take an interest in politics :w00t:

These things don't change: I remember kids walking in the road (not much older than me) singing a song whose chorus began "Vote vote vote 'son Mgtr Churchill, vote vote vote 'son Iain 'icLeoid" (that's the only line I remember the wrds of, but there were some lines some lines that were quire nasty about members of the incumbent cabinet); that must have been 1950 or 1951. I've heard political songs from wee kiddies at general election time many times since.

Tom

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 8

Paul White NZ (5/7/2010)
Lynn Pettis (5/7/2010)
Yea, Oracle <> T-SQL.
Impossible to say, at least in my case, since Oracle is NULL. :w00t:

Well, back in Oracle v6 I could just about understand it - but now it's gone completely bizarre.

I can't make sense of the function at all.

Tom

RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 9

Adam Machanic (4/22/2010)

Not just his articles. I just checked a bunch of the .NET articles, and some other SQL Server stuff. It's all plagiarized. The entire site is a sham.

http://www.hyderabadtechies.info/index.php/articles/39-articles/707-hyderabad-techies-article

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Date+Manipulation/69694/

http://www.hyderabadtechies.info/index.php/articles/39-articles/710-hyderabad-techies-article

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Temporary+Tables/66720/

http://www.hyderabadtechies.info/index.php/articles/39-articles/716-hyderabad-techies-article

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/WCF_Example.aspx

http://www.hyderabadtechies.info/index.php/articles/39-articles/661-hyderabad-techies-article

http://kb.hogandata.com/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=86

http://www.hyderabadtechies.info/index.php/articles/39-articles/672-hyderabad-techies-article

http://dotnetperls.com/substring

http://www.hyderabadtechies.info/index.php/articles/39-articles/639-hyderabad-techies-article

http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3867651/SQL-Server-Indexed-Views.htm%5B/quote%5D

Well, it's good to see that they don't play favorites. They're an equal opportunity plagarizer.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 10

Jeff Moden (5/8/2010)
Heh... poor guy... he's fighting not one but two language barriers (Oracle and French).

Worse problem than that, I think. My guess is that Arabic is his/her first language, French his/her second, and English not second but third. French as first language doesn't often produce "s" for "ç", but I've often seen Arabs do it when writing French and this OP did it in his French post.

Tom

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 11

Tom.Thomson (5/8/2010)
French as first language doesn't often produce "s" for "ç"

I've seen them do it quite regularly. Especially since the "ç" makes an "s" sound.

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Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 12

Wow, bad advice from first and only post , is this some form of record 🙂

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost918818.aspx

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 13

No, not at all.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 14

Hey guys I need your help to protect my website from other consultants (who should know better but don't).

High {no} availability and UPDLOCK

tosscrosby SSCoach Points: 18045 More actions · Answer 15

Ninja's_RGR'us (5/10/2010)
Hey guys I need your help to protect my website from other consultants (who should know better but don't).
High {no} availability and UPDLOCK

You have my sympathies especially since management doesn't seem to be concerned. Seems like a no-win situation for you (maybe the boss is getting a kickback from the other consultants??).

-- You can't be late until you show up.