October 3, 2011 at 11:57 am
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Roy Ernest (10/3/2011)
How do you all find out for the first time if the work is plagiarized? Once you find out that a person in plagiarizing, it is easy to get the list.Take a 6-10 word sentence (or series of words). Then search in google with " (quotation marks).
If you have a perfect match for 8-10 words in a row and it's not a reference to bol then it's highly likely a copy. You can repeat the process with another phrase to be 100% certain.
I usually take a sentence from the introductory paragraph. It's very unlikely that two people will use the same words and phrasings when introducing a subject. Get a google hit, check a couple more paragraphs.
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October 3, 2011 at 11:57 am
Roy Ernest (10/3/2011)
How do you all find out for the first time if the work is plagiarized? Once you find out that a person in plagiarizing, it is easy to get the list.
I followed a link @DataEducation tweeted a couple of hours ago, and happened to recognise the content from the SSC article. This is why plagiarizers will always get caught - someone somewhere will read the content and recognise it, especially in a small ecosystem like the SQL Server world.
October 3, 2011 at 11:58 am
Stefan Krzywicki (10/3/2011)
Grant Fritchey (10/3/2011)
No contact links anywhere on that EMC blog. So I went to the EMC site, the contact us link is prominent, but you get a 404 error (and not a good one like we have at Red Gate). I sent samples on to the Simple-Talk guys.Wow, I'm surprised the main Contact Us link is broken. I thought it was just the contact us link for the blog. How do you stay in business with that kind of sloppiness?
Yep. Mine was, and still is, 100% free for the electronic version. Print version cost money. And it was plagiarized at least once on one of those self-publishing web sites.
I'm pretty sure the SQl Server Team-based Development book is free too. Not all the Simple-Talk book are though. Some are only available for free at a conference.
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October 3, 2011 at 12:04 pm
SQL Kiwi (10/3/2011)
Spot the Difference Competition:SSC article http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/delete/61387/
EMC consulting blog entry http://consultingblogs.emc.com/sujeethkonagalla/archive/2011/09/29/the-difference-between-truncate-and-delete.aspx
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Reported to EMC
Tx
October 3, 2011 at 12:14 pm
SQL Kiwi (10/3/2011)
Chad Crawford (10/3/2011)
Having been granted the proper permission, I'll ask it - Why would you ignore a posting by a company looking for (among other things) a certified candidate?Well I wouldn't, necessarily. I just thought Tom's original statement was quite amusing and highlighted the sort of organization that tries to fill positions purely on the basis of a collection of certificates. I would have upvoted for the humour, and what I took to be the underlying (and somewhat cynical) vibe. I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to the quality of SQL job recruiters and advertisements. That was about it really.
Makes sense, thanks for clarifying!
October 3, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Grant Fritchey (10/3/2011)
Yep. Mine was, and still is, 100% free for the electronic version. Print version cost money.
This model makes most sense to me - and all power to you for contributing that work. There's not much of a monetary reason to write a SQL Server book from the author's perspective, but the publishers do need to see a return on their investment so charging for a printed version makes sense. Distributing good information for free via PDF is a fantastic way to make a genuine community contribution.
October 3, 2011 at 12:25 pm
GilaMonster (10/3/2011)
On a similar topic, this comment caught my eye...Please send your PDF file for Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA
in my address
Really. On a page advertising a new book you're going to ask for a pirated copy...
That is pretty gutsy and shameless
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October 3, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Jack Corbett (10/1/2011)
Hey guys I got some really cool news today. I was awarded MVP status!I just hope I can honor that award the way that all the MVP's on here already do!
Congrats Jack! I think you already do honor the award, no worries there. 😀
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October 3, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Thanks to all I have not already thanks for the congratulations.
I guess it just a "little" plagiarism to get the Thread rocking again.:-P
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October 3, 2011 at 12:53 pm
I think I've been plagerized!
Here is the url for all to see:
http://www.codevc.com/1817_A_Deleting_Large_Number_of_Records.aspx
Edit: There is a link at the bottom that takes you back to SSC, but there is no annotation.
October 3, 2011 at 12:57 pm
WAIT! Another one? Same date as published on SSC. Only thing, I had published this earlier on sswug.org several months earlier and republished on ssc later.
http://dbaling.blogspot.com/2009/09/deleting-large-number-of-records.html
October 3, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Am I seeing some sort of pattern here? Here is another one but there are some variations, the code samples. The words really look like mine.
http://sqlanddotnetdevelopment.blogspot.com/2011/02/deleting-large-number-of-records.html
Same author a month later?
http://sqlanddotnetdevelopment.blogspot.com/2011/03/deleting-large-number-of-records.html
October 3, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Lynn Pettis (10/3/2011)
Am I seeing some sort of pattern here? Here is another one but there are some variations, the code samples. The words really look like mine.http://sqlanddotnetdevelopment.blogspot.com/2011/02/deleting-large-number-of-records.html
Same author a month later?
http://sqlanddotnetdevelopment.blogspot.com/2011/03/deleting-large-number-of-records.html
Maybe if he changed his pathetic attempt at giving credit...
Instead of "Ref: http://www.sqlservercentral.com" it should say "Source: http://www.sqlservercentral.com", or even "Stolen:", "Reposted from:". It would certainly be a bit more credible if he gave a link to the article and not the site. What a tool.
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October 3, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Wait, wait for it. Another one plagerized.
http://codevc.com/1929_A_The_Dynamic_Tally_or_Numbers_Table.aspx
October 3, 2011 at 1:30 pm
I do not have to worry about my stuff being stolen. No one in his right mind would want to do that... 😀
-Roy
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