Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Stefan Krzywicki (10/13/2010)


    Alvin Ramard (10/13/2010)


    Celko strikes again.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1003748.aspx

    What an ***.

    Can we just respond to all his posts with "Just because someone wrote a book doesn't mean they're right"?

    @stefan - good response there.

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  • Roy Ernest (10/13/2010)


    Stefan Krzywicki (10/13/2010)


    Alvin Ramard (10/13/2010)


    Celko strikes again.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1003748.aspx

    What an ***.

    Can we just respond to all his posts with "Just because someone wrote a book doesn't mean they're right"?

    Maybe put that as our signature? 😀

    Interesting suggestion, but I'd have to add one more thing.

    He may have written the book, but I haven't read it yet and it's not part of my current plans.



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  • WayneS (10/13/2010)


    Stefan Krzywicki (10/13/2010)


    Alvin Ramard (10/13/2010)


    Celko strikes again.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1003748.aspx

    What an ***.

    Can we just respond to all his posts with "Just because someone wrote a book doesn't mean they're right"?

    @stefan - good response there.

    Thanks, I wanted to give the OP a way to proceed. That's one good thing about Celko's posts, the entire time I was writing the response I had his response in mind and it made me much more positive.

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  • Alvin Ramard (10/13/2010)


    Roy Ernest (10/13/2010)


    Stefan Krzywicki (10/13/2010)


    Alvin Ramard (10/13/2010)


    Celko strikes again.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1003748.aspx

    What an ***.

    Can we just respond to all his posts with "Just because someone wrote a book doesn't mean they're right"?

    Maybe put that as our signature? 😀

    Interesting suggestion, but I'd have to add one more thing.

    He may have written the book, but I haven't read it yet and it's not part of my current plans.

    True. At least he's shortened my reading list. I can cross all the ones in his sig off my list.

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    What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
    You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams

  • Alvin Ramard (10/13/2010)


    Celko strikes again.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1003748.aspx

    Ticks me off that he tells the poor OP to stop programming when the OP clearly, in one line right above Celko's response, indicates that this proc is an old one. Which in itself tells me the OP didn't create the proc.

    And that Celko, for all that he can write, apparently has forgotten how to read.

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  • Brandie Tarvin (10/13/2010)


    Alvin Ramard (10/13/2010)


    Celko strikes again.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1003748.aspx

    Ticks me off that he tells the poor OP to stop programming when the OP clearly, in one line right above Celko's response, indicates that this proc is an old one. Which in itself tells me the OP didn't create the proc.

    And that Celko, for all that he can write, apparently has forgotten how to read.

    I wouldn't go as far to say that it indicates the OP didn't write it, but at the very least should mean that maybe the OP wrote it a long time ago and is simply struggling with it at this point.

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  • Stefan Krzywicki (10/13/2010)


    Alvin Ramard (10/13/2010)


    Celko strikes again.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1003748.aspx

    What an ***.

    Can we just respond to all his posts with "Just because someone wrote a book doesn't mean they're right"?

    Whoa! Wait a minute. It doesn't? I only agreed to write the book so I could say I was right about everything. Man, way to be a downer.

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  • How about this one as a response.:-)

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  • Grant Fritchey (10/13/2010)


    I only agreed to write the book so I could say I was right about everything.

    Grant, Dude!

    I didn't know you were a science fiction author. @=)

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  • Not from here, but how's this one:

    http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=151492

    Background is that he mailed me twice within 10 min, subject line 'Answer this' and just a link to that thread.

    Gail Shaw
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  • Shawn Melton (10/13/2010)


    How about this one as a response.:-)

    Very appropriate response from Gail...I might steal that one sometime. "Measure don't assume" Love it.

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  • GilaMonster (10/13/2010)


    Not from here, but how's this one:

    http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=151492

    Background is that he mailed me twice within 10 min, subject line 'Answer this' and just a link to that thread.

    :crazy::crying::pinch:

    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

  • I duuno how ,pls any1 explane

    Gail, this is a quote from that link. There is just something I always find curious about posts like these. If English isn't the OP's first language, then how do they come up with words like "duunno" for "don't know" or "explane" for "explain"? (I'll let "pls" and "any 1" go by because shortwords in are becoming universal thanks to texting.)

    Not all posts from OPS for whom English is a second language are like this. Even babblefish could do better. To me, the post seems as if the OP is doing a parody of someone speaking English poorly. My spoken French is atrocious, but I wouldn't post to a French forum writing "Moan sewer, parlay vooze Awnglaze?"

    Does this bug anyone else, or should I go back to taking my chill pills?

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  • GilaMonster (10/13/2010)


    Not from here, but how's this one:

    http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=151492

    Background is that he mailed me twice within 10 min, subject line 'Answer this' and just a link to that thread.

    I really like how the OP responded to your first response: "U forgot to answer on question ..."



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    For best practices on asking questions, please read the following article: Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help[/url]

  • Alvin Ramard (10/13/2010)


    GilaMonster (10/13/2010)


    Not from here, but how's this one:

    http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=151492

    Background is that he mailed me twice within 10 min, subject line 'Answer this' and just a link to that thread.

    I really like how the OP responded to your first response: "U forgot to answer on question ..."

    That's the point at which he won himself a spot on the 'never going to help you' list

    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

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