Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 1

Steve Jones - Editor (9/24/2010)
Paul White NZ (9/24/2010)
The Dixie Flatline (9/23/2010)
I just reported you to Steve for this Jason. I hit the "Report" button instead of "Quote" by mistake, but then thought "Hey, why not?"
I reported a post a week or so back, and got an out-of-office auto-reply email from 'Alice Smith'.
Real person? Steve's cross-dressing alter-ego?
I think we should be told.
Cross dressing?!?!? Talk about an ugly, ugly image, in more ways. I think I'd be quite the candidate for the most hideous woman on the planet.
Alice is a lovely young girl at Red Gate, who puts up with me and Phil Factor.

If she puts up with you AND Phil Factor, she's a saint.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 2

Ah... another kilt-wearer heard from. 😀

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

tosscrosby SSCoach Points: 18045 More actions · Answer 3

Chris Morris-439714 (9/24/2010)
It looks like sunrise through half a dungbeetle or horseshoe crab.

Do we even want to know how you would know something like this????

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

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 4

tosscrosby (9/24/2010)
Chris Morris-439714 (9/24/2010)
It looks like sunrise through half a dungbeetle or horseshoe crab.
Do we even want to know how you would know something like this????

What, like you've never washed up drunk on a beach after a hard night? pshaw

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How best to post your question[/url]
How to post performance problems[/url]
Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 5

(Been relaxing all week - sorry this is belated.)

CONGRATULATIONS Gail! SSC is a much better place with you!

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (9/20/2010)
Thanks to everyone for the congrats. Lotsa work and time into that count.

Now that is one huge understatement. Again, thank you!

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 7

GilaMonster (9/24/2010)
Note that JHB rain is (from what I've heard) like the midwest - torrential thunderstorms that limit visibility to metres quite often.
http://picasaweb.google.com/GilaMonster.za/Home#5427311473145855714

Picture 2 is very nice.

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 8

Brandie Tarvin (9/24/2010)
Wow. I just found the most interesting article on VSS Writer and backups through it... Thought I'd share.
Though I'm sure most of you have already seen it before:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee923636(WS.10).aspx

Brandie, that is a very good link. Thanks for sharing it. (I initially thought this was going to be on SourceSafe... gotta love how MS re-used that acronym!)

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 9

Tom.Thomson (9/23/2010)
and it made me thing yet again that we need to ask ourselves if the ANSWERs are getting worse. This was a perfectly reasonable question, but of the answers to date only Leo's was reasonable: the others were disgraceful.

On that very note, I've recently been doing a whole lot of research for a little project I'm on concerning different methods to do certain things in T-SQL. Heh... I knew the problem of asinine articles, bad blogs, cruddy code, dumb demonstrations, extreme egos, and flippant flawed followers was pretty bad before I started the research but I've discovered that the problem is actually much, much worse than I ever thought before... there are a whole lot of people that should'na be allowed near a computer never mind a database.

--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)

UMG Developer SSChampion Points: 13482 More actions · Answer 10

Jeff Moden (9/26/2010)
I knew the problem of asinine articles, bad blogs, cruddy code, dumb demonstrations, extreme egos, and flippant flawed followers was pretty bad before I started the research but I've discovered that the problem is actually much, much worse than I ever thought before... there are a whole lot of people that should'na be allowed near a computer never mind a database.

That is the result of the 90/10 rule. (90% of everything is crap.) Which applies to people as well as everything else. A lot of them shouldn't be allowed near a coffee maker never the less a computer. :hehe:

UMG Developer SSChampion Points: 13482 More actions · Answer 11

Jeff Moden (9/26/2010)
On that very note, I've recently been doing a whole lot of research for a little project I'm on concerning different methods to do certain things in T-SQL.

What exactly is it that you are researching?

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 12

WayneS (9/25/2010)
(Been relaxing all week - sorry this is belated.)
CONGRATULATIONS Gail! SSC is a much better place with you!

Thanks.

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

Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 13

Anyone else going to be at SqlBits this week, have to say ive still got no idea how i got onto the Friday (Well known Speaker ?!?!) day. My room also seems to be getting larger by the day.

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 14

Dave Ballantyne (9/27/2010)
Anyone else going to be at SqlBits this week, have to say ive still got no idea how i got onto the Friday (Well known Speaker ?!?!) day. My room also seems to be getting larger by the day.

I'd love to go Dave; your session, Rob Farley's and Ami Levin's all look interesting and of course are core to TSQL development. Sadly this one's impossible. Maybe next time.

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173061 More actions · Answer 15

WayneS (9/26/2010)
Brandie Tarvin (9/24/2010)
Wow. I just found the most interesting article on VSS Writer and backups through it... Thought I'd share.
Though I'm sure most of you have already seen it before:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee923636(WS.10).aspx
Brandie, that is a very good link. Thanks for sharing it. (I initially thought this was going to be on SourceSafe... gotta love how MS re-used that acronym!)

You're welcome.

I wonder which came first. The VSS Writer or the VSS source control...

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