Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Good golly, I missed it! I missed them both, in fact. Gail has recently gone over the 23K post mark and I passed the 25K post mark some time in the last week.

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  • Jeff Moden (4/28/2011)


    No, no, no you don't,

    Loop with any class!

    Merrily! Merrily! Merrily! Merrily!

    Set-based saved my _____!

    Nice one. I was actually expecting something from you like:

    Row, row, row by [agonizing] row

    Gently gatherin' streams

    Barely, barely, barely, barely

    Moving slow it seems.

    Boy, these are getting bad.

    Jim Murphy
    http://www.sqlwatchmen.com
    @SQLMurph

  • Jeff Moden (4/28/2011)


    Good golly, I missed it! I missed them both, in fact. Gail has recently gone over the 23K post mark and I passed the 25K post mark some time in the last week.

    That's an accomplishment.

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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  • Jeff Moden (4/28/2011)


    Good golly, I missed it! I missed them both, in fact. Gail has recently gone over the 23K post mark and I passed the 25K post mark some time in the last week.

    If I wouldn't have met you in person, for sure I would have thought you were some kind AI bots :hehe:

    Congrats to you both !

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  • Craig Farrell (4/28/2011)


    A bit of narcissism drove this, but I hit a whaaaaa type of site.

    This site takes another site and completely frames it in its own advertising and stuff.

    http://news.comrite.com/en/newsposts/39235

    That points to a direct page of my Job Posting article... for SQL Server. Down to requiring my SQL Server login.

    Wierd.

    Actually not your login. Any valid SQLServerCentral login will do.

    I agree it's a pretty weird thing for them to do, but it's not weird that it needs a login (and that if you are already logged in to SQLServerCentral it just accepts your existing session cookie) because it's SQLServerCentral's page that's asking for the login. I haven't checked the structure though - maybe it's a man-in-the-middle method of harvesting SQLServerCentral logins?

    Whover posted that content there may be in violation of Comrite's terms of use (clause 7 j). But I'm not sure how USA copyright law and DMCA work in the case of an iFrame that includes the whole page and provides access only to someone who already has your permission to see it (as they have an SQLSeverCentral login) - a court might see it as no different from a link. You might want to try sending them a take-down notice (see clause 5 of their terms of use - but that's just DMCA boilerplate as far as I can tell, nothing else in it).

    Tom

  • Jason,

    Nice new avatar.

    Edit: It goes with your nice, new handle.

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  • So yall tell me...

    The poster on this thread, the one with all the letters after his name, opened himself up cause he put his blog address on his signature.

    So you look at his blog, http://aureus-salah.com/[/url], and just read a few of his postings. Then compare those random ones and then read this one he posted:

    http://aureus-salah.com/2011/03/21/oracle-history-by-ken-jacobs/[/url]

    It is astounding how well he writes about Oracle compared to SQL Server :hehe: [or do you think it was a copy/paste job?]

    Shawn Melton
    Twitter: @wsmelton
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  • Shawn Melton (4/29/2011)


    So yall tell me...

    The poster on this thread, the one with all the letters after his name, opened himself up cause he put his blog address on his signature.

    So you look at his blog, http://aureus-salah.com/[/url], and just read a few of his postings. Then compare those random ones and then read this one he posted:

    http://aureus-salah.com/2011/03/21/oracle-history-by-ken-jacobs/[/url]

    It is astounding how well he writes about Oracle compared to SQL Server :hehe: [or do you think it was a copy/paste job?]

    Ken Jacobs certainly wrote the second of the two - whether it was cut and paste or posted by permission - who knows?

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
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  • SQLRNNR (4/29/2011)


    Shawn Melton (4/29/2011)


    So yall tell me...

    The poster on this thread, the one with all the letters after his name, opened himself up cause he put his blog address on his signature.

    So you look at his blog, http://aureus-salah.com/[/url], and just read a few of his postings. Then compare those random ones and then read this one he posted:

    http://aureus-salah.com/2011/03/21/oracle-history-by-ken-jacobs/[/url]

    It is astounding how well he writes about Oracle compared to SQL Server :hehe: [or do you think it was a copy/paste job?]

    Ken Jacobs certainly wrote the second of the two - whether it was cut and paste or posted by permission - who knows?

    Interesting that the first several blogs listed start off with "My friend" or "My colleague" but none of them reference problems he himself has had.

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  • Brandie Tarvin (4/29/2011)


    Interesting that the first several blogs listed start off with "My friend" or "My colleague" but none of them reference problems he himself has had.

    The ones beginning like that are recent ones, not early ones.

    I decided to look at the earliest post in the blog (16 May 2009). It's not a long post. The diagram and most of the words are a diagram and some words from Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Security Datasheet and I would not be surprised to find that the material I didn't spot in there was also cribbed directly from MS (perhaps from an earlier version of that datasheet). As Jason said about his copy of the Ken Jacobs piece, he may have had permission to copy the stuff.

    Tom

  • Hey people, MS have presented me with an option to install an additional browser to IE, (they have been legally obliged to I believe).

    firefox, google chrome, safari and opera are on offer. which ones do you rate?

    I would most likely use this as an optional extra rather than a direct replacement to give me a fall back if IE goes pop.

    security is important to me (well I am a DBA!)

    cheers in advance.

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  • george sibbald (4/29/2011)


    MS have presented me with an option to install an additional browser to IE

    I don't exactly follow. I have not seen what you are talking about.

    I typically use firefox as my primary browser, and IE for the sites that need it (I just upgraded to IE 9 a few days ago). I also use chrome, but only to help me categorize all of my browser windows since I typically have zillions of tabs in zillions of browsers open at any given time. So now I've resorted to installing more browsers, one for primary work, one for extra research, etc. I think I've sunk to a new low by admitting how many things I have going on at once. And no, I don't like to bookmark all of those - I just want to finish the articles in those tabs and close them once and for all.

    As for security? There's a debate. Perhaps firefox is debatably 'more secure' because fewer people are using it? I definitely know that fewer people hate, target and therefore 'attack' the underground-friendly Mozilla as compared to MS. So I can't really judge the reality of the security surface area, defect to lines of code, ratio and all that.

    Jim

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  • george sibbald (4/29/2011)


    Hey people, MS have presented me with an option to install an additional browser to IE, (they have been legally obliged to I believe).

    firefox, google chrome, safari and opera are on offer. which ones do you rate?

    I would most likely use this as an optional extra rather than a direct replacement to give me a fall back if IE goes pop.

    security is important to me (well I am a DBA!)

    cheers in advance.

    I primarily use Chrome. I used Firefox for a while but got sick of the memory leak (despite several supposed patches and a plugin to help). I avoid IE except when needed for something like Web Outlook.

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
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    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • SQLRNNR (4/29/2011)


    I primarily use Chrome.

    I did too for many years, and would not have touched IE again without being paid well to do it.

    Then I tried IE9. Now it's not perfect, for sure, but it has incorporated enough of the Chrome features I liked best to make it my primary browser now. I still use Chrome occasionally, though.

  • I use Firefox. Don't like IE, haven't tried IE9, but if it's like Chrome, why move? Chrome gives me a few ergonomic issues with some shortcuts I like in Firefox, so no reason for me to switch.

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